Days after Cyclone Nargis kills over 138,000 people, Myanmar's ruling military junta continues refusing foreign aid workers entry, drawing global condemnation.

Space shuttle Discovery, carrying Japan's Kibo laboratory module, docked with the International Space Station, delivering the largest single module ever added to the outpost.

Nepal's newly elected assembly voted overwhelmingly to abolish the 240-year-old Shah monarchy, declaring the Himalayan nation a federal democratic republic.

CERN successfully circulated the first proton beam around the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator.

CERN scientists successfully circulated the first proton beam around the full 27-kilometer ring of the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator.

Ten gunmen from Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba stormed hotels, a train station, and a Jewish center across Mumbai, beginning a 60-hour siege that killed 166 people.