Blasts kill more than 30
MOSCOW — A suicide bomber killed 14 people aboard an electric bus in the southern Russian city of Volgograd during the morning rush hour today, a...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The U.S. Coast Guard was searching Sunday for a Canadian passenger who jumped off a Royal Caribbean Cruises ship as it motored off a remote Puert...
BEIJING — More than 8 million acres of China’s farmland is too polluted with heavy metals and other chemicals to use for growing food, a Cabinet official said today, hig...
China, S. Korea take offense
TOKYO — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe paid his respects at a shrine honoring Japan’s war dead in an unexpected visit today that drew sharp rebuke...
BEIJING — China’s leaders bowed three times before a statue of Mao Zedong on the 120th anniversary of his birth today in carefully controlled celebrations that also soug...
Radiation wasn't used as poison
MOSCOW — A Russian probe into the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has found no trace of radioactive poisoning, the chief of the ...
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Russian investigators have dropped charges against all but one of the 30 crew of a Greenpeace ship, who were accused of hooliganism following a ...
SEOUL, South Korea — The children call him “uncle,” but he’s more of a mom and dad rolled in one. From one child that he began caring for in 2006, Kim Tae-hoon’s brood h...
Pope Francis faces backlash
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis may have been named Time magazine’s Person of the Year, but he has come under scathing criticism from a growing nu...
It will provide a view in 3-D
BERLIN — The European Space Agency launched its star-surveying satellite Gaia into space today, hoping to produce the most accurate three-di...
