KOREAS-TENSION — North Korea fires a short-range projectile from an area near its eastern coast, South Korean officials say, in what appears to be another weapons test in response to ongoing military drills between Washington and Seoul. By Kim Tong-hyung. 

UNITED STATES-ASIAN LEADERS — President Barack Obama will be meeting with Asian leaders in Washington this week as fears grow that long-smoldering tensions on the Korean Peninsula and in the South China Sea risk flaring into conflict.

MISSILE DEFENSE — As North Korea threatens to bomb the U.S. with a nuclear weapon at "any moment," a nerve-jangling question hangs in the air: If Pyongyang is ever able to make good on the threat, could U.S. missile defenses shoot the weapon down?

PAKISTAN — Hundreds of Islamic extremists who earlier violently protested in Islamabad over the hanging of a man who killed a secular governor continue their demonstrations in Pakistan's capital, despite warnings from the government targeting extremists. 

CHINA-BARBIE HACK — The email looked like a routine request by Mattel Inc.'s chief executive for a new vendor payment to China, but was actually a $3 million scam. After the toy company executives realized their mistake, authorities told them it was too late — the money was already in China.