Day: December 7, 2011

The scandal-hit Olympus Corp. will appoint a board to decide whether the Japanese company should take legal action and file criminal complaints against executives who helped hide $1.7 billion in losses, the company president said Wednesday.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has canceled a visit to the United Kingdom to return home following deadly blasts in the capital, Kabul, and in the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif.

Twin suicide bombings killed dozens of people Tuesday in Afghanistan, most of them in a mass-scale attack on Shiite worshippers unlike anything the country has seen in the decade-long war.

Twin suicide bombings killed dozens of people Tuesday in Afghanistan, most of them in a mass-scale attack on Shiite worshippers unlike anything the country has seen in the decade-long war.

The deadly attack in Kabul on Shi'ite worshippers celebrating the feast of Ashura add one more layer to the country's overlapping security crises. And they evoke violent sectarian rivalries in Iraq and Pakistan, where animosity between Sunni …