Let’s face it, the nation’s founders didn’t create the Second Amendment to allow people to kill defenseless, unarmed school children.

Anniversaries come and go, so much so that it’s hard to keep up with them all. But it does speak volumes about how much the world has changed that, 35 years after President Richard Nixon made his historic trip to China, how few people and media outlets commemorated the event last month.

A traveling photography exhibit on China opened Saturday at Mesa Community College's main library.

LIMA, Peru - Cameron Diaz apologized Sunday for carrying a bag with a political slogan that evoked painful memories in Peru.

NEW DELHI, India - Communist rebels armed with rifles, hand grenades and petrol bombs attacked a police post in the jungles of eastern India on Thursday, killing at least 49 officers, police said.

SHANGHAI — China's biggest city and financial hub is known for designer boutiques and fine dining. Yet wallet-draining Shanghai also offers activities that cost nothing, from walking on the riverfront Bund to sculpture parks and historic sites. Here are five of them.

BEIJING - Pro-Tibet activists wrapped themselves in Tibetan flags and lay down in Tiananmen Square on Saturday, their group said, in a protest that breached heavy security surrounding the heart of Beijing for the Olympic Games.

Not many people know about contemporary Chinese art. Sometimes, not even people in China. "If they've been to China, what they see is traditional cultures," says Janet Baker, curator of Asian art at the Phoenix Art Museum. "You get the idea it's all about ancient China."

KASHGAR, China - Hundreds of security personnel lined the streets to head off any disruption as the Olympic torch relay resumed Wednesday in western China's restive Muslim region of Xinjiang.

BEIJING - While China grapples with its latest tainted food crisis, the political elite are served the choicest, safest delicacies. They get hormone-free beef from the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, organic tea from the foothills of Tibet and rice watered by melted mountain snow.

Deborah O’Hara doesn’t have to go far to get a quick respite from her busy work day. When she needs a break from running her art gallery, all she has to do is head upstairs to the 2,000-square-foot loft she calls home.

Deborah O’Hara doesn’t have to go far to get a quick respite from her busy work day. When she needs a break from running her art gallery, all she has to do is head upstairs to the 2,000-square-foot loft she calls home.

The face of Asia is changing and can be seen in artwork including modern language embedded in Chinese calligraphy, photos of graffiti covering decaying buildings, and beautiful furniture distorted beyond its usefulness.

ROME - The world's Catholics looked to the College of Cardinals to begin the difficult task of choosing a worthy successor to John Paul II, while hundreds of thousands of weary pilgrims who flooded Rome for the pontiff's funeral began their journeys home on Saturday.