Okuma, Fukushima Pref. – Workers at Japan’s crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant have started dismantling water storage tanks to free up space for tons of nuclear debris, 14 years...

Washington – Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to dominate the planet. All this happened about 4.5 billion years...

Vladimir Putin is assembling a heavyweight team with decades of experience in high-stakes negotiations to face off against U.S. President Donald Trump’s representatives for a deal to end Russia’s war...

WASHINGTON – Nearly half of an elite U.S. epidemiology program known as the “disease detectives” were dismissed by the Trump administration Friday, according to sources familiar with the matter, dealing...

Just hours before meeting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House, United States President Donald Trump announced his intention to impose reciprocal tariffs on American trade partners, including...

Kyiv/Chernobyl, Ukraine – A Russian drone attack badly damaged the confinement structure around the disused Chernobyl nuclear power plant intended to prevent the release of nuclear substances, a senior nuclear...

The very title is beguiling: “Tsurezuregusa” — literally, “Grasses of Idleness.” A celebration of idleness! There are “grasses” in all of us whose soil is idleness. In it they grow....

Many video game voice actors from the Western part of the world often cite Japanese animation such as “Naruto” and “Dragon Ball” for inspiring them from a young age. For...

Me Mang, Cambodia – Cambodian scientist Yeang Chheang has spent six decades fighting malaria — even in the Khmer Rouge labor camp where his wife and baby died — and...