Bombing took place at a market in the Musa Qala district of Helmand province

Federation of Thai Industries estimates the economy is losing as much as $85 million a day because of the crisis

General Motors, Ford and Chrysler have until this week to show US lawmakers they will be able to use bailout funds wisely, and that they will change the business approaches that have put them at risk of financial failure

With an anguished Indian public questioning leaders in the wake of the deadly terror attacks on Mumbai, the top official in the state government offered to step down.

North Korea has curtailed travel to joint North-South cooperation zones and reduced South Korean staffing there to skeleton levels