One World Trade Center, the giant monolith being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks, will lay claim to the title of New York City’s tallest skyscraper on Monday. Workers … (read the story…)
The surprising escape of a blind legal activist from house arrest to the presumed custody of U.S. diplomats is buoying China’s embattled dissident community even as the government lashes out, detaining those who helped him and squelching mention of his name on the Internet. (read the story…)
Three people were killed and one person is missing after a yacht apparently crashed into a larger boat during a race off the coast of California and Mexico this past week, authorities said. The accident occurred Friday night or early Saturday morning. The 37-foot sailboat,… (read the story…)
A year after the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida is hobbled and hunted, too busy surviving for the moment to carry out another Sept. 11-style attack on U.S. soil. (read the story…)
Japan automaker Honda Motor has said its net profit for the fiscal year to March plunged 60.4 percent from the previous year due to Japan's quake-tsunami disaster, flooding in Thailand and the strong yen…. (more…)
TOKYO – Honda Motor said Friday its net profit for the fiscal year to March plunged 60.4 per cent from the previous year due to Japan's quake-tsunami disaster, flooding in Thailand and the strong yen. (more…)
LOS ANGELES – The prospect of power shortages in Japan this summer, of stifling city apartments and manufacturing slowdowns, has divided a country still reeling from the worst nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl over whether to restart some of its idled reactors. (more here…)
This year’s primaries, the 2008 primaries, the General Services Administration scandal, even the Secret Service and Donald Trump were targets for President Barack Obama’s scattershot humor at Saturday night’s celebrity studded White House Correspondents Dinner. (read the story…)
A yacht involved in a race off the coast of California and Mexico apparently collided at night with a much larger vessel, leaving three crew members dead and one missing, a sailing organization said early Sunday. It was the state’s second ocean racing tragedy this month. (read the story…)
A senior U.S. diplomat arrived in China on a hurried mission Sunday as new problems — from possible U.S. arms sales to Taiwan to the custody of a blind dissident — threaten to complicate relations with Beijing ahead of high-level talks. (read the story…)
U.N. observers struggling to shore up a shaky cease-fire in Syria visited an embattled neighborhood in the central city of Homs Sunday, the Syrian state news agency said. Activists said government snipers shot dead two people nearby. (read the story…)
The video now has hundreds of thousands of hits – A woman holding her son in her arms as an earthquake, the big one on March 11, 2011, rocks Japan. (more…)
TOKYO (AP) – A bus carrying dozens of holidaymakers has crashed on a highway while heading for Tokyo Disneyland, killing seven passengers. (read more here…)
Japan intends to take control of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501) in return for bailing out the beleaguered utility, following a model it adopted to rescue the nation’s fifth-biggest bank. (get the story…)
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan's Nikkei share average ended lower in choppy trade and closed out its worst April since 2005 on Friday, after the Bank of Japan's move to boost its bond buying failed to ignite lasting confidence among investors over the fragile economy. Stocks briefly picked up and the yen weakened after the...
TOKYO, April 25 (UPI) — An active geological fault lies directly beneath one of two reactors at a nuclear power plant in western Japan, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said. (more here…)
Japan will take its last operational nuclear reactor offline next weekend – but the country may not remain nuclear-free for long (more here…)
Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. and four other operators of facilities that reprocess or recycle nuclear fuel have submitted stress tests results to the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency. The nuclear watchdog will now determine whether the reports submitted Friday are valid by the end of the year, after consulting with experts. (more here…)
TOKYO (AP) – A Japanese research institute says its deep-sea drilling probe has set a new world record for depth, reaching 7,740 meters (25,400 feet) below the sea surface. The Chikyu, operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was digging the seabed off Japan's northern coast to take … (more here…)
NEW DELHI: India and Japan will hold their first ever "economic dialogue" on Monday, a move reflecting closer trading ties between two of Asia's biggest democracies, the Indian government said. (more here…)
TOKYO _ A research vessel with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology has set a record for the deepest undersea research drill, reaching a depth of 7,740 meters (4.8 miles) in waters off Miyagi Prefecture, the agency said. The Chikyu, a 56,700-ton deep-sea research vessel, broke the record of 7,049.5 meters set...
As bike-sharing schemes expand around the globe, Levi's is building on the successful launch of its Commuter Series in the United States last year with a Spring 2012 Commuter Series, launched in Europe and Japan. (more here…)
