LOS ANGELES (AP)—Disney is laying off 700 people from the interactive unit that makes video games and operates websites, about a quarter of the workforce in the division. A Walt Disney Co. spokes...

KABUL (AP)—An early morning NATO airstrike in Afghanistan’s eastern Logar Province killed five Afghan soldiers on Thursday, defense ministry officials said. The coalition said the deaths were an ...

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...