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 TIME.com: Top World StoriesTop Stories about International affairs on TIME.com |
| China's Great (Quantum) Leap Forward While China has been showing off its new hardware, a potentially more important military advancement has gone largely unnoticed -- a major breakthrough in quantum teleportation |
| A Fashion Week Model's Secret: Sensible Shoes On the eve of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, the hottest event on New YorkCity's couture calendar, TIME takes a look inside the grueling auditionprocess for hundreds of high-fashion hopefuls |
| Afghan Cleric Uses Koran Burning for Political Gain Whether or not the Koran burning happens in Gainesville on Saturday, a religious conservative in Kabul is already using the event to propel his political ambitions |
| North Korea Succession: Reports of Power-Handover Talks In North Korea, the first congress in 30 years of the Workers' Party of Korea may be imminent, suggesting that a succession is being prepared to hand power from Kim Jong Il to his son Kim Jong Un |
| Koran Burning: Cues from Osama bin Laden Media Strategy? While he's planning violence against books, not people, the would-be Koran-burning Florida preacher Terry Jones is following a self-promotion strategy similar to that of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden |
| China: Journalist Attacks Hurt Investigative Reporting China has long been an unfriendly place for journalists, but two attacks on journalists in Beijing this summer serve as a reminder that the threats to the press can extend beyond censorship to outright violence |
| Financial Sheriffs to Monitor Banks, Markets in European Union A trio of financial sheriffs will oversee finance in the entire European market |
| Uganda: Democratic Reform and Security Top U.S. Agenda Pushing for electoral reform is tricky when the strongman in power is also a key ally against extremist violence |
| Afghan Elections: Candidates Flock to Kabul for Safety More than 600 candidates are running for office out of Afghanistan's capital because it isn't safe to campaign in the provinces |
| Is China Planning a Broader South Pacific Strategy? Beijing has entertained Fiji's pariah military dictator while doling out lots of cash and support to other impoverished countries in Australia's backyard |
| Spain: What the ETA Cease-Fire Announcement Reveals Spain's political establishment has rejected a unilateral cease-fire declared by the battered Basque terrorist group ETA. What does it reveal about the cohesion of the separatists and what they might do next? |
| Afghanistan: Run on Kabul Bank Shakes a Fragile Economy The government insists there is no reason for anxiety but the depositors outside Afghanistan's largest bank are implacable. They want their money back |
| The Bettencourt Scandal Puts Sarkozy in Growing Peril As the scandal surrounding the L'OrÉal billions further entwines Eric Woerth, French President Nicolas Sarkozy's support for his labor minister could cost him the next election |
| Since Floods, Pakistani Women Not as Shielded from Strangers The public mixing of the genders is leading to enormous tension and fear that violence may break out as men try to defend conservative ideas of honor |
| The Forbidden City's Secret Treasures Head to the U.S. Though Beijing's Forbidden City has been open to the public for decades, parts of it remained off-limits. This month a new exhibition of artifacts from behind the gates heads to the U.S. |