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...
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...
