Newsweek International

Byline: Melinda Liu Jin Xing was once a man and a soldier. Then he had a sex-change operation, and became a mother and one of China's premier dancers. Jin Xing, a 27-year-old Army colonel, quivered with trepidation as he lay alone in the Chinese...

Byline: Dan Ephron and Joanna Chen Jerusalem has tried to assimilate Ethiopian Jews for two decades now, but it can't quite fit them in. Smadar Geto was airlifted to Israel in 1991 in one of the country's most stunning operations--a rescue of...

Byline: Paul Theroux Vulnerable, shaken Japan has attracted the sympathy of the world. All of it--the towns and cities tumbled flat in a torrent of mud and death--is appalling, and almost ungraspable. But, looking for a coherent image, anything...

Byline: Liv Buli How a young girl's murder led to a boycott of Coca-Cola. The night of her murder began with a celebration. On an early spring evening in 2008, Martine Vik Magnussen, a 23-year-old Norwegian beauty, curled her long, blond hair...

Byline: Bill Emmott The political, economic, and psychological consequences of Japan's catastrophe. One of the first phrases foreigners pick up when they live in Japan is ganbatte kudasai, because it is so commonly used. Japanese say it in parting,...

Movies, comics, and videogames have obsessively imagined Japan's destruction, mirroring the country's real-world vulnerability. Of the many images of disaster coming to us from Japan, one continues to haunt me: a dark, angry, roiling wave of water,...