NEW YORK (Kyodo) -- Hairline cracks have been found on wings made by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. on some undelivered Boeing 7...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The head of Japan's agricultural cooperative union (JA-Zenchu) has indicated a desire to maintain the group's ban...

RICHMOND, Virginia (Kyodo) -- Senior U.S. trade official Wendy Cutler urged Japan on Friday to remove tariffs on its sensitive agr...

PARCHAL, Portugal (Kyodo) -- Mana Iwabuchi scored a first-half winner as women's world champions and London Olympic silver medalis...

BEIJING (AP) -- China's state media say Vietnamese authorities have detected signals from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.The ...

MIAMI (AP) -- Carlos Salamanca fled Venezuela's growing political turmoil in January with his wife, two teenage children and $7,00...

NEW YORK (AP) -- The "holy grail of guitars" is among the hundreds of rare and vintage acoustic guitars going on the auction block...

KEY LARGO, Florida (AP) -- The White House says President Barack Obama has told German Chancellor Angela Merkel he welcomes the un...

DAVIS, California (AP) -- University of California students who drink coffee to get through the day will soon be able to study the...

Bank of America chief executive Brian Moynihan saw his compensation jump 77 percent last year as the company's fortunes improved.M...

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- One of the biggest mysteries hanging over the protest mayhem that drove Ukraine's president from power: Who ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A popular satirical musical about Mormon missionaries will play next year in Salt Lake City, just down the ...

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- In a day of potentially damaging testimony, a former girlfriend of Oscar Pistorius said at his murd...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Visa and MasterCard are forming a group that's intended to help the retail and banking industries come together o...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Civil rights lawyers are urging a federal appeals court to outlaw the National Security Agency's collection of mi...

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- Actor Vince Vaughn is bringing a new comedy festival to Nashville this spring with live tapings and s...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Who is bitcoin's real creator? The bitcoin community is reacting to that burning question with a collective ho...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Dr. Frank Jobe, a pioneering orthopedic surgeon who was the first to perform an elbow procedure that became kn...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 carrying 239 people lost contact with air traffic control early ...

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