Neon signs were turned off, lights dimmed and thermostats dialled down in Japan on Tuesday after the government issued an urgent call to save energy, warning of blackouts after an earthquake last week caused a serious power shortage.
Kim Jin-woo, a 27-year old resident of Seoul battling COVID-19 and recovering at home under a new government policy, needed to see a doctor when his symptoms did not improve, but the nearest designated hospital was fully booked.
Rescuers in China scoured heavily forested slopes on Tuesday with hopes fading of finding any survivors from the 132 people aboard a China Eastern Airlines passenger jet that crashed a day earlier in the mountains of southern Guangxi.
He survived the Nazi Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II. He survived the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp in the same war. And the Bergen-Belsen camp.
A portrait of actress Marilyn Monroe by 1960s pop icon Andy Warhol will go up for auction in May with an estimated value of $200 million, which would set a record, Christie's announced on Monday.
A Texas appeals court on Monday reinstated a temporary injunction prohibiting the state from investigating parents who provide their transgender children certain medical care that Governor Greg Abbott has branded "child abuse."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that it would not be possible to negotiate an end to the war in his country without meeting Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin.
A federal judge on Monday said Apple Inc must face a Silicon Valley company's claims it illegally monopolized the U.S. market for heart rate monitoring apps for its Apple Watch.
The ex-wife of Eric Greitens, a former Missouri governor now mounting a run for U.S.
Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has denied abuse allegations made by ex-wife Sheena Greitens in a court affidavit.
The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19.
The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19.
The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19.
The remaining members of the one shift of technical staff who had been on duty at Chernobyl's radioactive waste facilities since Russian forces seized the site last month have been relieved, the U.N.
Senior White House cybersecurity official Anne Neuberger said on Monday that important U.S.
A juvenile detention center in Ohio was breached by airborne fentanyl substance substance through its vents. The innocent left seven injured.
The bill to make daylight saving time permanent passed unanimously in the Senate, but questions have since arisen as the bill heads to the house.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shared his call with Ukraine-born Mila Kunis and Ashton Kushner as their fundraiser has reached $35 million.
The United States formally determined that Myanmar's army committed genocide and crimes against humanity in its violence against the Rohingya minority, U.S.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris's National Security Adviser Nancy McEldowney is stepping down from her role and will be succeeded by her deputy Philip Gordon, according to an internal staff memo seen by Reuters.
Aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe accused Britain and Iran on Monday of treating her like a political pawn, saying it should not have taken six years for London to secure her release from detention in Tehran.
LAPD is offering $1,000 information that leads to apprehension and conviction of the driver of Tesla involved in the high-flying stunt.
The U.S. securities regulator on Monday unveiled a landmark proposal requiring U.S.-listed companies to disclose their climate-related risks and greenhouse gas emissions, part of a push by President Joe Biden's administration to address financial risks created by global rising temperatures.
In the United States, about 23% of children under the age of 18 are living in the household of a single parent.
Wilbur Brown will receive an annual check for slightly more than $200,000, including taxes, after he opted to take the 30-year annuity option for his prize.
Wall Street's main indexes fell in choppy trade on Monday, as rising tensions over the Russia-Ukraine conflict weighed on megacap stocks and Boeing shares fell after a 737-800 jet crashed in China.
A New Mexico county commissioner who founded a group called "Cowboys for Trump" faced trial on Monday on charges related to the Jan.
The U.S. Senate begins consideration on Monday of Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to be the first Black woman on the U.S.
Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden's nominee to become the first Black woman on the U.S.
Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats on Monday defended President Joe Biden's U.S.
