The government will appoint Supreme Court Justice Itsuro Terada as the next chief justice of the nation’s top court, government officials said Thursday. Terada, 66, will become the 18th head of th...

SEOUL (AP)—South Korean officials on Thursday criticized a North Korean artillery launch that they say happened minutes before a Chinese commercial plane reportedly carrying 202 people flew in the ...

MONTREAL (AP)—Quebec’s premier dissolved the legislature Wednesday and called an election in a bid to gain a majority of seats for her pro-independence party, a development that could lead to ano...

Let’s congratulate the real winners from China’s latest economic disclosures: Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman and European Aeronautics Defense and Space. Forget the Potemkin grow...

KINGSTON (AP)—Conservationists said Wednesday they have launched a shark-saving campaign in the Caribbean country of Trinidad & Tobago, trying to stop locals and tourists from eating a popular deli...

WASHINGTON—“I think we’re going to do pretty well in the budget, sir.” That was Adm. William H. McRaven of the Special Operations Command, probably one of the few senior Pentagon officials wh...

If there was any doubt left that Lupita Nyong’o is the Cinderella of this award season, it was erased by Vanity Fair’s Hollywood issue. Not only did she land a slot on the issue’s coveted cover ...

The government asked for cooperation from South Korea in resolving economic issues between the two countries Thursday. Japan made the request as the two countries held preliminary talks in Tokyo to ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)—Under pressure from gun control advocates, Facebook agreed Wednesday to delete posts from users seeking to buy or sell weapons illegally or without a background check. A similar...