TAIPEI, Taiwan — Workers have pulled out 114 bodies from the rubble of a high-rise apartment building that collapsed in an earthquake in Taiwan’s oldest city, leaving on...
Church leaders meeting there
HAVANA — The heads of the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches will hold a historic meeting today in the threadbare international air...
Year of the Monkey begins
BEIJING — Chinese flocked to temples and fairs to pray for good health and fortune today, the first day of the lunar new year.
In Beijing, hund...
Modified embryos will be destroyed
LONDON — In a landmark decision that some ethicists warned is a step down the path toward “designer babies,” Britain gave scientists ap...
KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. airstrikes on a remote region of Afghanistan have destroyed a radio station operated by the Islamic State group, American and Afghan officials ...
Zika spreading in the Americas
GENEVA — The World Health Organization declared an international emergency Monday over the explosive spread of the mosquito-borne Zika viru...
Netanyahu helps push plan through
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Cabinet voted Sunday to allow non-Orthodox Jewish prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, a move advocates said ma...
Country top manufacturer
BEIJING — Joysticks at their fingertips, the mostly male students packing the classroom lift their virtual helicopters into the air, part of a ne...
Iran says it flew drone over carrier
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran flew a surveillance drone over a U.S. aircraft carrier and took “precise” photographs of it as part of an on...
Zero fighter plane takes flight in Japan
KANOYA, Japan — One of Mitsubishi’s legendary Zero fighter planes took to the skies over Japan today for the first time since Wo...
