A mentor to the Afghan Taliban falls victim to a new generation of extremists.
Did President Obama give President Hu a piece of outright kitsch?
There's a lot of talk in the United States about being overtaken by a rising China. But is all the economic doom and gloom only on one side of the Pacific?
The Hindu festival of Thaipusam is celebrated by some two million ethnic Indians in Malaysia.
Simon Tay and Shen Dingli offer public radio some background on what's unfolding in Washington.