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Burma is well-known for the repression of its ruling military junta. Nevertheless, the country’s economy is growing, in large part to due to the drug trade, migration, and foreign investment.

Pakistan has engaged in its own ‘war on terror’ against Islamist militants in the northwest part of the country. The collateral damage: at least 450,000 Pakistanis forced from their homes.

Somalia's tattered landscape is a window into the country's troubled past.

March 20 marks the six-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The war sparked a bloody insurgency, but in Baghdad today, normal life is cautiously reemerging.

Thanks to both the forces of globalization and the worsening financial crisis, criminal activity is spreading to some surprising places and groups. Here are five crime waves that authorities never saw coming.

This time of year, many American college students head to Mexico's beaches for spring break, but a recent State Department travel alert about violence south of the border might be giving some party animals second thoughts.

Few regions have been hit harder by the financial crisis than Eastern Europe, with its exposed economies and young democracies. FP runs down five of the region’s worst basket cases.

The economic crisis has been rough for everyone, but especially so for China’s migrant workers. With jobs in the cities vanishing, some are returning home to the countryside.

From Tokyo to Riyadh, governments are pouring billions into their economies. Find out who stands to gain the most and who's out of luck.

In his first address to the joint session of Congress, President Obama said the United States does not torture. Iraq might be trying to send the same message about itself with the recent makeover it gave to the notorious Abu Ghraib prison.

An ancient land that globalization seems to have passed by, Yemen is not just about choking traffic, crushing poverty, and Islamic extremism.