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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...
LONDON — A British adventurer has died after suffering exhaustion and dehydration while attempting to cross the Antarctic alone.
Former army officer Henry Worsley was ju...
TORONTO — A gunman opened fire at a high school and a second location in an aboriginal community in northern Saskatchewan, leaving four dead and at least two injured, of...
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea announced today the arrest of a U.S. university student for what it called a “hostile act” orchestrated by the American government to un...
PARIS — Edmonde Charles-Roux, a French writer who was among the founding editors of Elle magazine and a longtime editor of Vogue before turning to literature, has died. ...
Ex-agent died from poisoning
LONDON — President Vladimir Putin probably approved a plan by Russia’s FSB security service to kill former agent Alexander Litvinenko, who di...
PANAJI, India — Coconut trees are no longer considered trees in the tropical Indian state of Goa, where authorities have reclassified them as palms to allow farmers to c...
H-bomb test viewed as threat
SEOUL, South Korea — A senior U.S. diplomat stepped up pressure on China today to play a leading role in punishing North Korea for its recent...
