NEW YORK: The city of New York asked the US government for up to $35 million to cover the cost…

SEOUL: The publicity-shy heads of South Korea’s largest conglomerates faced their worst nightmare on Tuesday — being publicly grilled about…

OAKLAND: The death toll from a massive weekend fire at a warehouse near San Francisco shot up to 36 as…

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is to become the first Japanese leader to visit Pearl Harbor, announcing Monday a trip to…

MIAMI: A man from the southern US state of Georgia got life in prison without possibility of parole for leaving…

OSAKA, JAPAN: Navy aircraft mechanic Kuniyoshi Takimoto watched as Japanese planes roared off the aircraft carrier Hiryu to attack Pearl…

NAIROBI: More than 100 patients escaped from Kenya’s only psychiatric hospital on Monday as doctors and nurses joined a national…

HANOI: Vietnam on Monday punished two editors of a major newspaper which had earlier been fined for publishing what authorities…