China on Friday called on the concerned parties to continue to stick to the objective of denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and work for peace and stability in Northeast Asia.
China's Central Military Commission Vice-Chairman Fan Changlong made the call during his meeting with Choe Ryong Hae,...
A prominent Russian lawmaker on Friday called on the public to condemn distribution of condoms by AIDS activists at a national monument erected in honor of soldiers who died in World War II, Russian media reported.
"The most serious reaction to such things is not the introduction of new administrative...
The U.S. Senate has unanimously confirmed key Obama nominee Srikant "Sri" Srinivasan to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
The 46-year-old India-born solicitor won overwhelming support of 97-0 vote on Thursday. Earlier, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously...
A 8.2-magnitude earthquake struck the Sea of Okhotsk at a depth of 601.80 kilometer on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Epicenter of the massive tremor was located 359 kilometer southwest of Esso, a town in Russia's Kamchatka Krai region.
The West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe left Tokyo on Friday on a three-day visit to Myanmar, where Japanese companies plan to invest in infrastructure projects.
The first Japanese Premier to visit the Southeast Asian country in 36 years, Abe told reporters before his departure that Japan would offer...
A portion of a highway bridge collapsed into the Skagit River north of Seattle in the U.S. state of Washington on Thursday evening, sending vehicles and their passengers into the water.
Rescuers pulled out three people from the freezing water and sent them to hospital. Nobody is believed to have...
At least 20 people have been killed and several injured when suicide bombers struck a military camp and a uranium mine in the West African country of Niger on Thursday, media reports said quoting the Defense Ministry.
Two explosives-laden cars were detonated almost simultaneously, one inside a military...
The Boy Scouts of America on Thursday voted at their annual meeting in Texas to allow openly gay youths to become members.
Openly gay youths can become scouts, although the organization will continue to bar gay adults from being Scout leaders.
"No youth may be denied membership in the Boy Scouts...
Four people are now under arrest in London following Wednesday's murder of a British soldier that's being called a terrorist attack.
A radical Islamist and an accomplice were arrested at the scene of the stabbing attack. The man shouted threats to kill other average citizens as long as British troops...
A teenager from Prince George's County, Md., was charged Thursday with carjacking and leading police on a chase and then crashing into a school bus, the Washington Post is reporting. Malik Hasaam Wilkins, 17, was charged as an adult with armed carjacking, fleeing and eluding, and a weapons violation. According to police, two masked men carjacked a Mercedes using handguns.
The police department in Venetia, Pa., arrested a man Wednesday on cocaine and weapons charges, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is reporting. Francis Mario Tinsley, 36, was arrested with the drugs and illegal firearms that he was not allowed to own because he is a felon. Tinsley was convicted in 1997 of possession with intent to deliver drugs, which is a felony.
A teenage boy in Utah is suspected of stabbing to death his two younger brothers while his mother was out of the house, the Chicago Tribune is reporting. Police are not releasing the name of the 15-year-old suspect, who was arrested Thursday after the bodies of his brothers were found inside the home in West Point.
Judge Sherry Stephens on Thursday declared a mistrial in the penalty phase of trial of convicted murderer Jodi Arias, after the jury was unable to come to a unanimous decision on whether to sentence Arias to death or life in prison.
The penalty phase of the trial will be retried with a new jury starting...
Authorities in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania have arrested and charged eight men in an operation that dealt massive ammounts of high-grade marijuana near Philadelphia. Local television station KYW-TV reports that the investigation, known as "Operation Weed Whacker," resulted from a tip received by authorities from a member of the community.
Paul Pozonsky, a retired Washington County Common Pleas Judge, has been accused of stealing cocaine by Pennsylvania's Attorney General, Kathleen G. Kane, reports local news source FOX 43. The former judge allegedly misappropriated coke that was submitted in drug-related cases over which he presided.