The San Francisco Giants finally got the better of Tim Hudson, beating the Atlanta pitcher and the Braves 8-2 on Friday. Atlanta's veteran pitcher Hudson (4-2) had been 6-0 with a 2.48 ERA against San Francisco dating back to 2006 and...

A woman was hit and seriously injured by a bullet train as it arrived at Sendai Station on Friday afternoon. The woman, who is in her 20s, was hit by the front of the train as it arrived at the station at around 5:30 p.m., TBS reporte...

Pakistanis streamed to the polls Saturday to vote in a historic election pitting a cricket star-turned-politician against an unpopular incumbent and a two-time prime minister, but twin bombings killing nine people and wounding dozens und...

LeBron James came on strong down the stretch to finish with 25 points, Chris Bosh added 20 points and 19 rebounds, and the Miami Heat followed up the most lopsided playoff win in franchise history with a 104-94 victory over the Chicago B...

Police have arrested a 37-year-old man in Chiba Prefecture for illegally receiving pension money on behalf of his dead mother for the past two years. The man, who has been named as Akio Kato from Sodegaura, has been unemployed for the...

The Los Angeles Kings advanced to the second round of the NHL playoffs with a 2-1 win over the St Louis Blues on Friday, boosting its hopes of back-to-back Stanley Cup titles. Meanwhile in other games, Detroit beat Anaheim to stay ali...

Millions of Pakistanis are expected to brave Taliban threats Saturday to vote in elections that mark a historic democratic transition in the nuclear-armed state ruled for half its life by the army. The Taliban have branded democracy u...

Filming of the new "Star Wars" movie will take place in England, returning the franchise to its British roots, Disney's Lucasfilm said on Friday. "We've devoted serious time and attention to revisiting the origins of 'Star Wars' as in...

Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt was found guilty of genocide and war crimes Friday in a landmark ruling stemming from massacres of indigenous people in his country's long civil war. Rios Montt thus became the first Latin ...

Bangladeshi rescuers pulled a woman alive from the ruins of a collapsed garment factory complex on Friday after she spent 17 days trapped in a basement under the rubble. Hours after officials had announced the death toll had surged pa...