Tokyo---Japan on Sunday successfully launched a back-up spy satellite, its aerospace agency said, after cancelling an earlier lift-off due to bad weather. Tokyo...
Tokyo---Japan on Sunday successfully launched a back-up spy satellite, its aerospace agency said, after cancelling an earlier lift-off due to bad weather. Tokyo...
Dhaka---Bangladesh restored power to the office of opposition leader Khaleda Zia, an official said Sunday, nearly a day after it was cut in...
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott Sydney---Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Sunday said his government had "lessons to learn" from a stunning state...
Jakarta---Indonesian rescuers on Sunday resumed their search for 86 victims still missing from the AirAsia plane that crashed on December 28 with 162...
Tokyo---The Japanese government said on Sunday it was "highly probable" that an Islamic State video, in which the group said it beheaded a...
Hong Kong---Thousands of pro-democracy protesters will rally on Hong Kong's streets Sunday for the first time since mass demonstrations shut down parts of...
Tokyo---The apparent execution of two Japanese hostages captured by Islamic State militants marks one of the darkest moments in Japan's experience of kidnappings....
Washington---US politicians are calling for changes to a law that allows Europeans and other foreigners to enter the country without visas, citing fears...
Quito---Ecuadoran authorities called for a state of emergency to be declared in the Galapagos Islands on Saturday as they aimed to limit damage...
Los Angeles---Notebook in hand, Ana Alvarez walked along the streets of Skid Row, the downtown Los Angeles district that's sometimes called the homeless...
Washington---The US Supreme Court is due to review the use of lethal injection drugs following several bungled executions that saw inmates gasping for...
The Hague---The UN's highest International Court of Justice on Tuesday hands down its ruling in a long-running genocide case that could reopen old...
Kathmandu---Nepal's success in turning tiger-fearing villagers into their protectors has seen none of the endangered cats killed for almost three years, offering key...
Beirut---The Islamic State group said in a video Saturday it had beheaded a second Japanese hostage, drawing outrage from Tokyo and condemnation from...
President Barack Obama Washington---President Barack Obama condemned Saturday the "heinous murder" of a Japanese hostage after the Islamic State group released a video...
Bobbi Kristina Brown Los Angeles---The daughter of late singer Whitney Houston was pulled unconscious from her bathtub Saturday at her Georgia home, in...
Junko Ishido Tokyo---The mother of a second Japanese hostage apparently beheaded by the Islamic State group said on Sunday that she "can't find...
French President Francois Hollande Paris---French President Francois Hollande Sunday "resolutely" condemned the apparent execution of a Japanese hostage by the Islamic State (IS)...
