Construction workers stole and sold potentially radioactive scrap metal from near the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, the Japanese environment ministry said on Thursday.
Glencore, a global resources giant which traces its roots back to a Swiss firm launched by the late Marc Rich, a trader who made it onto the FBI's 10 most wanted list, encapsulates all the woes of the commodities crash, and more.
Electronic components, such as transistors on computer chips, are increasingly becoming smaller, while their performance capabilities are growing.
The U.S. Air Force successfully launched a Titan IV-B rocket carrying a Milstar satellite from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Station, Fla.
Millions of Shiite Muslim pilgrims massed at the golden-domed mausoleums of the holy Iraqi city of Karbala on Wednesday, commemorating Arbaeen, one of the largest religious gatherings in the world.
General Mark Milley faced repeated crises at home and abroad during a tumultuous term as America's top military officer, becoming one of the most well-known and controversial people to hold the position in years.
Hundreds of military vehicles, including tanks and missile carriers, rolled down one of Beijing's main streets Sunday to rehearse a parade marking the 60th anniversary of the nation's founding.
The creation of a united armed forces for the European Union could give Brussels superpower status to match that of Washington, Poland's opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski told AFP Friday.
Growing military cooperation between Australia, Japan and the United States is worrying Moscow, as is work on US-Japanese missile defence cooperation, a top foreign ministry official said in an interview Wednesday.
China should prepare for a military confrontation with the United States in outer space, a Chinese military expert told the state-run China Daily on Tuesday.
As good news continues to flow from the U.S. "surge" -- some of it true, some of it false, and all of it spun -- it is easy to forget the bottom line.
Militants attacked local government and police buildings in northern Iraq with suicide bombings and mortar fire on Wednesday, sparking clashes that killed 14 people, among 33 deaths nationwide, officials said.
Militants killed six people in the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region Sunday in a rare attack on an area usually spared the violence plaguing other parts of the country.
Militants escaped a US drone strike targeting a vehicle in a troubled Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border on Tuesday, security officials said.
Militants seized control of a prison in the Iraqi city of Tikrit on Thursday night after fierce clashes with guards that left at least two dead and allowed some prisoners to escape.
Middle East peace talks have so far proved "futile," a senior Palestinian official said on Wednesday, calling for greater US participation in talks.
