SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has no time for Japan. Not anymore, at least.
The country will establish its own time zone next week by pulling back by 30 minutes its ...
ISMAILIA, Egypt — Egypt today will unveil a major extension of the Suez Canal that President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has billed as an historic achievement which will boost...
Warns against tough stance
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis declared Wednesday that divorced Catholics who remarry, as well as their children, deserve better treatment from th...
Party tries to assert power
LOWER DAFEI VILLAGE, China — About a dozen Catholics wept and sang hymns outside their church as a man climbed to the top of the building and ...
Hiroshima blast was 70 years ago
HIROSHIMA, Japan — Japan marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on today, with Mayor Kazumi Matsui renewing calls...
TORONTO — Collapsed among trash and dead leaves, its arms ripped off and its skull and brain nowhere in sight, the talking and tweeting hitchhiking robot from Canada met...
TOKYO — The 4½-minute speech that has reverberated throughout Japan’s modern history since it was delivered by Emperor Hirohito at the end of World War II has come back ...
BERLIN — Scientists say the Philae space probe has gathered data supporting the theory that comets can serve as cosmic laboratories in which some of the essential elemen...
They were last ones kamikaze pilots would see
CHIRAN, Japan — As young army pilots took off on suicide-attack missions in the closing days of World War II, the schoolgirl...
Uproar over lion hunt
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe intends to seek the extradition of an American dentist who killed a lion that was lured out of a national park and shot ...
