"The Killing Fields," a 1984 movie about the wartime life of journalist Dith Pran, explored the horrors inflicted by Cambodia's Khmer Rouge. ...more

February 2, 2009

Fifty years ago, a bearded guerrilla marched triumphantly into Havana and declared victory over a departing dictator. Then he became a despot himself. ...more

January 1, 2009

It's unclear why American Stage Theatre Co. chose "By the Waters of Babylon" to open its 30th anniversary season. The professional theater company has reached a milestone in longevity and looks forward to a new home in 2009. Surely it deserves better than Robert Schenkkan's trite drama about a Cuban-dissident-turned-gardener and a kooky Texas widow. ...more

September 23, 2008

North Korea escalated its renewed confrontation with the United States on Friday, saying it is moving to restore a nuclear reactor and warning it "will go its own way" because Washington refuses to remove it from the U.S. terror blacklist. ...more

September 20, 2008

North Korea has quietly built a long-range missile base that is larger and more capable than an older and well-known launchpad for intercontinental ballistic missiles, according to independent analysts relying on new satellite images of the site and other data. ...more

September 11, 2008

The gray cooling tower crumbled behind billowing dust clouds in seconds Friday, reducing the structure at North Korea's nuclear reactor into a pile of rubble. It was a choreographed show by the communist regime meant to affirm an intention to stop making atomic bombs. ...more

June 28, 2008

Arturo Sandoval's Web site touts him as "fluent in at least four musical languages." ...more

May 18, 2008

Financial problems are threatening the completion of a Warsaw church meant to commemorate the late Pope John Paul II and the fall of communism. ...more

December 22, 2007

Two top Yahoo officials on Tuesday defended their company's role in the jailing of a Chinese journalist but ran into withering criticism from lawmakers who accused them of complicity with an oppressive communist regime. ...more

November 7, 2007