Etiquette is a tourniquet. Applied lightly it can save your skin, too tightly it'll kill you, as Jim Harbaugh discovered Sunday, when the Niners coach overdid the postgame pleasantries with Lions coach Jim Schwartz and turned the handshake into a hostile act.
Caroline Kennedy releases recordings of her mother done four months after JFK's assassination
India's parliament on Saturday debated demands by a 74-year-old anti-corruption activist in what an opposition leader called a "historic occasion" for lawmakers to come together in the fight against graft.
India's Rahul Gandhi warned lawmakers Friday not to allow the nation's democracy to be undermined, in an apparent criticism of anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare's high-profile hunger strike.
It was February, 1986. In Manila, President Ferdinand Marcos had just rigged an election that almost all independent observers believed had been won by opposition candidate Corazon Aquino. Protests were spreading. The country was in crisis.
CNN remembers CNN journalist John Lewis, who covered Asia for more than a decade.
Gurdeep Kaur's wrinkled face was wet with tears, as she recounted what she saw a quarter century ago: the killings of 21 of family members.
The school bell rang and along with my sixth-grade friends, I climbed down the stairs. My teenage sister was in the hallway waiting for me. Her being there was unusual.
Apollo reunion
updated: Fri Jul 17 2009 09:49:00
On the eve of the moon landing anniversary, the Apollo astronauts remember the historic event.
Flashback to 1984: As a child, I am glued to my family's black-and-white television set for our daily dose of evening entertainment and news on India's national broadcaster.
A journalist hurled a shoe at the Indian home minister, apparently in anger over his Congress party fielding a leader who had been accused of leading anti-Sikh riots in New Delhi in the aftermath of the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984.
Indian police swiftly handled a "security scare" at New Delhi's major airport early Friday amid heightened concern in the wake of last week's terror attack in which gunmen killed 179 people in Mumbai.
For the fourth time, a bill is introduced to reserve one third of the legislature's seats for women. But it still faces opposition from men, as well as women's indifference
The sleek, clean factory in the Delhi suburb of Noida seems more Taiwan than India. Engineers in white overalls and goggles watch over an automated production line that spits out four billion state-of-the-art DVDs and CDs a year. To get to the factory floor, you have to pass through three air-cleaning passages - a process that makes it clear you're no longer in crowded, dirty Delhi.
Assessing India's independence
What makes the defeat of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee especially interesting is the story of the woman likely to be thrust to the top of India's government, Sonia Gandhi.
Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has resigned after a stunning election upset, ending his nearly six years in power and setting the stage for the return of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty.
Indian voters will go to the polls in early national elections in four stages in April and May, election officials have announced.
THE BULLS are raging in Bombay's once-sleepy stock market. Gillette Co. suddenly has the Indian government's permission to set up a razor blade plant after some eight years of asking. Honda and Nis...
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