As the drama surrounding one of the Chinese Communist Party’s most powerful leaders, Bo Xilai, unfolds with all the twists of a soap opera, attention has now focused on his wife, Gu Kailai, the woman likened to the “Jackie Kennedy of China” and now at …

Five years after Australia won the World Cup in a farcical finish in the dark at Kensington Oval, they again celebrated a victory there in fading light as the first Test went to the wire on the fifth afternoon

Ahmed Ben Bella, Algeria’s first president after the country became independent from France in 1962, has died at the age of 96, Algeria’s state-run news agency said Wednesday.