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NEW: Number of injured rises; includes many elderly residents, authorities say Quake struck about 12:26 a.m.; epicenter was in eastern Honshu No danger of a tsunami, Japanese Meteorological Agency says (CNN) -- A strong...
Microsoft founder Bill Gates and New York mayor Michael Bloomberg are pooling their millions in a bid to cut the number of smokers in developing countries like China and India. Cigarettes easily get into the hands of some...
Japanese shares advance for third straight session on Wall Street gains, falling oil NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Japanese shares rose for the third straight session Thursday, lifted by further gains on Wall Street and a...
By Jonathan Lynn and William Schomberg GENEVA (Reuters) - Urgent talks to salvage a global trade deal made "some progress" in the early hours of Thursday, ministers said, but officials warned the mood was dark behind closed...
Three aftershocks jolted parts of China on Thursday, the official Xinhua News Agency said, killing one person and injuring more than 10. A 6.0 magnitude earthquake hit parts of Shaanxi and Sichuan Provinces on Thursday...
By Akane Vallery Uchida and Yuka Hayashi TOKYO -- Japan's trade surplus in June tumbled from a year earlier as exports fell for the first time in nearly five years, in a sign of declining consumer demand in countries around the...
By Bill Tarrant SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Asia-Pacific nations are calling for greater civil-military coordination in dealing with major disasters, according to a draft declaration to be adopted after their meeting on Thursday. The...
Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday.The scientists uncovered a Tarbosaurus - related to the giant...
