UNITED NATIONS (AP)—Central African Republic’s foreign minister told the Security Council Thursday that a U.N. peacekeeping mission is urgently needed in his country to bolster French and Afri-ca...

CINCINNATI (AP)—Deep-sea explorers can now recover the remaining gold from a ship that sank off the South Carolina coast in 1857 and more recently has been embroiled in legal fights involving a fug...

FRANKFURT (AP)—The European Central Bank kept its key interest rate on hold Thursday and raised its economic growth forecasts as it acknowledged that the recovery is strengthening in the 18 countri...

WASHINGTON (AP)—The top U.S. military officer says it will take two years of study and billions of dollars to overcome the loss of security to military operations and tactics that were revealed in ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP)—A U.S. general accused of sexual assault pleaded guilty Thursday to three lesser charges, a remarkable admission sure to end the military career of a man once regarded as a ri...

The government does not recognize bitcoin as a currency but income from bitcoin trading is taxable, the government said Friday. The view was adopted at a Cabinet meeting held to answer Diet questio...

WASHINGTON (AP)—Bowing to the Pentagon, the Senate agreed after impassioned debate Thursday to leave the authority to prosecute rapes and other serious crimes with U.S. military commanders in a str...

Nearly three-quarters of the public supports the recent shift in government policy away from encouraging people, now under evacuation instructions from radiation-affected areas in Fukushima Prefectur...

HAVANA (AP)—Cuba’s foreign minister on Thursday formally accepted a European Union invitation to begin talks on improving ties, and expressed concern over upheaval in key ally Venezuela and in Uk...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Barack Obama reaffirmed their cooperation Friday in international efforts to respond to rising tensions in Ukraine. In 40-minute phone talks, Obama expl...

The dollar rose above ¥102.50 in Tokyo trading Friday on the back of expectations for U.S. economic recovery, but a wait-and-see mood grew in the afternoon before the release of closely watched U.S....

TRONDHEIM, Norway—Olympic silver medalist Akito Watabe, hampered by a sudden gust that left him far behind in the ski jump, finished in 22nd place in a World Cup Nordic combined meet here Thursday. ...