The Philippine president has banned a reporter from entering the presidential palace compound to attend news briefings because her online news organization's license to operate was revoked by the gove...

Is he hero, a harasser or both? Shaun White's Pyeongchang gold medal and response to old misconduct allegations create a newly complex legacy...

Lindsey Vonn is not planning to change her mind or stop saying what she thinks after receiving attacks from people via social media...

A large fire has broken out in one of the most important temples of Tibetan Buddhism...

A comedy sketch that featured a Chinese woman in blackface has drawn accusations of racism after being broadcast on Chinese state television's Lunar New Year variety show, although some people were le...

Some fret that the world is falling apart. Curling is here to tell you otherwise....

Under Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar has aggressively prosecuted dozens of journalists and worked in other ways to suppress and discredit the media...

Two Myanmar journalists facing up to 14 years in prison if convicted of receiving government secrets have appeared for the latest hearing in their trial in Yangon, one day after it was announced that ...

A mobile game starring a vacationing frog has attracted a massive following in China by speaking to a desire for a less harried existence...

Speedskater Shani Davis didn't attend the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Olympics after losing a coin flip to carry the U.S. flag and lead American athletes into the stadium...