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Julie Hamp has not been charged formally yet, but Japanese authorities are allowed to detain suspects without charge for up to 23 days.

The U.S. women’s national soccer team will move on to the finals of the 2015 FIFA World Cup in Vancouver on Sunday.

Beijing announced that it had completed some of its land reclamation projects and would be continuing to militarize the region.

The South China Sea rivals have clashed again after a prominent Chinese General said that Tokyo's military forces were not welcome in the region.

Engineers reportedly completed the development of the new traction system in 2011.

U.S. stock futures dived almost 2 percent at one point to hit a three-month low, and last traded down 1.6 percent.

A Chinese official says other countries are encroaching on the nation's historical claims to a wide swath of the South China Sea.

The South Korean survivors were previously denied reparations from Japan, following which they filed a lawsuit seeking damages from South Korea.

Astronomers have detected 854 "ultra-dark galaxies," composed primarily of dark matter, in the Coma cluster -- over 320 light-years from Earth.

A new deal for the week offers a free game bundled with the Xbox One for U.S. residents.

It is becoming mathematically harder and harder to avoid economic growth falling below 7 percent in the second quarter.

Pepper, a robot from SoftBank Robotics that gives "emotional" responses, went on the market in Japan and sold out in one minute.

The 500GB PS4 is also getting a new release.

Asian shares got the week off to a strong start and U.S. stock futures and the euro firmed on Monday.

Although the killing of whales was banned in 1986, Japan has continued hunting the animals under an exception for scientific research.

The country's tourism has taken a hit as arrivals dropped by nearly 13 percent in the first five months of 2015.

The USS Chancellorsville will be joined by two more ships in the first major deployment to the U.S. base in Yokosuka since the end of World War II.

The retail giant operates 78 subsidiaries in 15 international tax havens, a new report details, fueling the debate over offshore corporate cash.

Plunging costs and growing climate-change concerns will propel countries and companies to install 55,000 megawatts in solar projects this year.

Australian research says free trade accords with China, South Korea and Japan could create 180,000 jobs in 20 years.

The Fed's statement is due at 2 p.m. EDT, followed half an hour later by Chair Janet Yellen's news conference.