North Korea recently tested a small rocket engine, a monitoring group said Wednesday, after a US official had reportedly suggested the test could be a step to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile.

It wasn't until he got to medical school that Narong Khuntikeo finally discovered what caused the liver cancer that took both of his parents' lives: their lunch.

The new US ambassador to China said on Wednesday he would like to see terminally-ill Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo get treatment abroad after prison officials granted him medical parole.

Three former executives at Fukushima's operator stand trial this week on the only criminal charges laid in the 2011 disaster, as thousands remain unable to return to homes near the shuttered nuclear plant.

The bankruptcy of Japanese auto parts giant Takata may frustrate the legal challenges by victims harmed by the company's exploding airbags, which were part of the largest auto safety recall ever.

Venezuela's embattled president Tuesday repeated claims of a US-backed coup attempt against him and angrily warned President Donald Trump that Venezuela would fight back against such a move.

A helicopter dropped two grenades on Venezuela's Supreme Court building in a "terror attack" against his government, President Nicolas Maduro said in a speech Tuesday, adding that the weapons failed to explode.

Throughout its 4.5-billion-year history, Earth has been repeatedly pummelled by space rocks that have caused anything from an innocuous splash in the ocean to species annihilation.

In August 2014, Anastasiya Chub could not wait to share wonderful news with her husband -- that she was pregnant with the couple's second child.

Some will never know if their books were appreciated by readers, many of whom aren't born yet. Every year for 100 years, a different author will contribute to the "Future Library", a collection of works to be published only in the next century.

Defense officials called it a "fast-moving train."

Tuesday's colossal cyberattack may just be a harbinger of what's to come.

The attack ads were a highly unusual assault on a politician from within his own party.

The skipper of the Hawks of Togo is calving a niche for himself as Philanthropist

Early Uber investor Ashton Kutcher asks: "How did Uber become the poster child for a problem everyone's facing?"