Two million people are told to evacuate in Japan after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake, one of the strongest ever, hits Russia's ...

Many commuters in the capital and neighboring prefectures were unable to return home until late at night on July 30 due to ...

The Cold War-era Il-38 is Russia's counterpart to the U.S. P-3 Orion spy plane. While the four-engine turboprop is designed for anti-submarine warfare, it can also be used for search-and-rescue and ...

Asian shares are mixed after most U.S. stocks slipped, as doubts rose on Wall Street about whether the Federal Reserve will ...

TOKYO -- The Bank of Japan on Thursday kept its key interest rate unchanged and revised its inflation outlook upward, signaling a cautious monetary policy stance by the central bank as it takes its ...

SINGAPORE--The yen ticked slightly higher on Thursday after Japan’s central bank stood pat on rates in a closely watched ...

Divya Deshmukh receives grand welcome in Nagpur after historic Chess World Cup win ...

According to a legend of the Ainu people of Hokkaido, there was an old woman with a gift of divination who lived by the ...

Fears of a devastating tsunami faded Wednesday for the U.S. and Japan after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded ...

Almost 2 million people in Japan were ordered to higher ground before the warnings were downgraded or rescinded.

It was one of the strongest tremors in recorded history, but Wednesday's megathrust earthquake brought less tsunami damage ...

Following an earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale, tsunami waves struck Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula and Japan on ...