A tornado tore through a city northeast of Japan's capital on Sunday, killing one person, injuring dozens of others and destroying scores of houses.

Firefighters and medical teams rushed to the area

Vladimir Putin’s return to the presidency on Monday will technically give him greater powers than he wielded as Prime Minister. The irony is that his position will be arguably weaker than at any time since he first came to power more than 12 years ago.

Voters in France's overseas territories began casting ballots for Nicolas Sarkozy or Francois Hollande in a presidential election that could affect everything from Europe's efforts to fight its debt c

Scott Thompson's reign as Yahoo's CEO is in jeopardy after just four months on the job because he allowed an inaccuracy about his academic credentials to recur for years.

A major Yahoo shareholder wh

The self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11 attacks and four alleged co-conspirators will appear in public for the first time in more than three years, when U.S. officials start a second attemp

A US Air Force F-15E fighter crashed during a routine training mission in the Middle East, but investigators have ruled out insurgent activity as a cause, the military said.

Both crew members ejecte

The tallest man in the United States travelled from Minneapolis to Massachusetts on Thursday for a custom shoe-fitting with Reebok that he hopes will help him live a normal life.

Igor Vovkovinskiy s

Officials say a snake slithered into an Oklahoma City electric substation and knocked out power to about 10,000 customers overnight.

Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. says the power outage affected custo

A senior Iranian official has said that Israel's undeclared nuclear weapons pose the greatest threat to Mideast peace and accused the United States and other nuclear powers of hypocritically ignoring

The world will soon be able to read the last words of Osama bin Laden as he struggled to command the attention of his far-flung terror network.

A selection of documents seized in last year's raid on