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**FILE** Former Chongqing Communist Party Secretary Bo Xilai (right), accompanied by his wife Gu Kailai, attends a funeral for his father in Beijing on Jan. 17, 2007. (Associated Press)

China: Politician’s wife admitted murdering Brit

By Scott McDonald - Associated Press

** FILE ** Bo Xilai, then the Chongqing Communist Party secretary, attends a plenary session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Sunday, March 11, 2012. (Associated Press)

4 police officers tried in China political scandal

By Christopher Bodeen - Associated Press

Gu Kailai (center), the wife of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai, stands trial in the Intermediate People's Court in the eastern Chinese city of Hefei on Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/CCTV via APTN)

Chinese politician’s wife doesn’t deny killing Brit

By Gillian Wong - Associated Press

Gu Kailai (second left), the wife of disgraced politician Bo Xilai, is escorted into the Intermediate People’s Court in the city of Hefei on Thursday. According to testimony Thursday in the murder trial, Gu lured British businessman Neil Heywood (left) to a hotel in the southwestern mega-city of Chongqing, where she got him drunk and fed him poison. (Associated Press)

China murder case wrapped up in hours

By Gillian Wong - Associated Press

A protester holds a placard July 29, 2012, during a march in a downtown street in Hong Kong to protest the upcoming introduction in schools of Chinese patriotism classes that they fear will lead to brainwashing. (Associated Press)

Thousands in Hong Kong protest China patriotism classes

Associated Press

**FILE** North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (center), flanked by Kim Yong-nam (right), president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly and the ceremonial head of state, and Vice Marshal Ri Yong-ho of the Korean People's Army, presides over a national memorial service for his late father, Kim Jong-il, at Kim Il-sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Dec. 29, 2011. (Associated Press)

Top North Korea general’s ouster murky

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, lies embalmed in his tomb on Moscow's Red Square on Wednesday, April 16, 1997, six days before his 127th birthday on April 22. (AP Photo/Sergei Karpukhin)

Russians mull burying Soviet leader Lenin

By Marc Bennetts - Special to The Washington Times

Odd twist in China stock index evokes crackdown

By ELAINE KURTENBACH - Associated Press

Oddities in Chinese stock index evoke Tiananmen

By ELAINE KURTENBACH - Associated Press

Tens of thousands of people attend a candlelight vigil at Hong Kong's Victoria Park on June 4, 2012, to mark the 23rd anniversary of the Chinese military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Beijing. (Associated Press)

Oddities in Chinese stock index evoke Tiananmen

By Elaine Kurtenbach - Associated Press

Former Beijing Mayor Chen Xitong (center) stands in Municipal Higher Peoples Court in Beijing in July 1998. Chen was deposed as Beijing's Communist Party boss for corruption and is serving a 16-year prison sentence. (AP Photo/Xinhua News Agency)

Ex-Beijing mayor: Tiananmen Square crackdown was a tragedy

By Alexa Olesen - Associated Press

Alexis Tsipras, leader of Greece's Radical Left party, arrives for a meeting of political party leaders at the Presidential Palace in Athens on Wednesday, May 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Court official to be appointed Greece’s interim prime minister

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

China blogger seeking redress over labor camp term

By ISOLDA MORILLO and CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

SANDERS: Beijing’s nightmare scenario

By Sol Sanders - Special to The Washington Times

China lifts microblog controls that sparked outcry

By DIDI TANG - Associated Press

Leung Chun-ying (left) and his wife, Regina, celebrate his victory in the chief executive election on Sunday, March 25, 2012, in Hong Kong. (AP Photo)

Hong Kong’s elite heed Beijing, pick Leung as leader

By Kelvin Chan - Associated Press

Tibetan monks living in exile participate in a candlelight vigil to show solidarity to those who have immolated themselves in Tibet, in Dharmsala, India, on Thursday.

Life in Tibet town always monitored

By Gillian Wong - Associated Press

Inside China: Shake-up stirs party fears

By Miles Yu - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Bo Xilai, then the Communist Party secretary in Chongqing, rubs his face during a session of the National People's Congress in Beijing on Friday, March 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Flashy style seen behind downfall of China’s Bo

By Christopher Bodeen - Associated Press

A Chinese military band conductor rehearses before the closing session of the annual National People's Congress in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Wednesday. (Associated Press)

Chinese premier warns of specter of turmoil

By Charles Hutzler - Associated Press