It was the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, and since March 11, 2011, parts of Fukushima, Japan, have lain silent, abandoned in the days and weeks following a nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant.
The United States is trying to verify that an airstrike recently killed a high-ranking ISIS commander, and the Pentagon confirmed Wednesday that in a separate action it took out a commander of the Pakistani Taliban who was responsible for the deaths of more than 130 children.
Sobs and screams pierced the air outside an Italian hospital Wednesday as relatives departed after finally identifying some of the 27 people killed in the collision of two passenger trains a day earlier.
Theresa May struck a populist tone in her first public remarks as British Prime Minister on Wednesday, saying she planned to continue predecessor David Cameron's "true legacy" of social justice.
Japanese Emperor Akihito is thinking about stepping down because of his advanced age -- a move that would mark the first abdication of the nation's monarch in about 200 years -- Japanese state broadcaster NHK reported Wednesday.
Theresa May is due to become the 76th prime minister of the United Kingdom Wednesday. But despite over two decades in politics, May is largely unknown on the other side of the Atlantic.
A 16-year-old male dancer is determined to prove that South Africa can produce global ballet stars. Leroy Mokgatle is breaking stereotypes of what a ballet star is supposed to look like. The non-muscular, slight-framed South African was told he was "too short" to be a male principal dancer.
How quickly things change. Three weeks ago, David Cameron was the leader of one of the world's most powerful countries -- then Brexit happened, the moving vans rolled up to 10 Downing Street, and by Wednesday evening he will be just be just another member of Parliament.
The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system (THAAD) is designed to shoot down short, medium and intermediate ballistic missiles, just the type of weapons North Korea claims it has.
Human traffickers get to know children's vulnerabilities in order to become the person that the child wants in their life. Once trust is gained, exploitation begins.
Two passenger trains collided head-on in a rural area of southeastern Italy late Tuesday morning, killing at least 20 people, a provincial official said, and prompting authorities to ask for blood donations for an unspecified number of injured.
The Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague has issued a scathing legal rebuke of China's maritime claims in the South China Sea. This stunning decision pits the international legal order against the power of a rising China, with significant ramifications for both the international legal system and for the geopolitics of Southeast Asia. Whether law can constrain power now turns on how China, the United States and other countries in the region use the new decision.
