Mark Mcdonald New York Times

You could almost feel sorry for McDonald's. That's an odd sentiment when you consider that the company's revenues in 2014 were $27.4 billion and its stock price makes it worth something like $92 billion.

Emperor Akihito of Japan, in an unprecedented television address to the nation, said on Wednesday that he was "deeply worried" about the ongoing nuclear crisis at several stricken reactors and asked for people to act with compassion "to overcome these difficult times."An official with the Imperial Household Agency said that Akihito had never before...

Anxiety mounted in Japan on Tuesday as the country struggled to come to grips with the scope of the natural disaster that struck last Friday and the nuclear crisis it unleashed. The National Police Agency said Tuesday afternoon that, so far, 2,722 people were confirmed to have died in the earthquake and tsunami, and many thousands remained missing....

The tsunami that barrelled into northeast Japan on Friday was so murderous and efficient that not much was left when search-and-rescue teams finally reached Natori on Monday. There was searching, but not much rescuing. There was, essentially, nobody left to rescue. The mournful scene here in Natori, a farm and fishing town that has been reduced to ...

Japan reeled from a rapidly unfolding disaster of epic scale on Sunday, pummeled by the death toll, destruction and homelessness caused by the earthquake and tsunami and new hazards from damaged nuclear reactors that were leaking radiation. The Prime Minister called it Japan's worst crisis since World War II.Japan's $5 trillion economy, the third l...

While nuclear experts were grappling with possible meltdowns at two reactors after the devastating earthquake and ensuing tsunami in northern Japan, the country was mobilizing a nationwide rescue effort to pluck survivors from collapsed buildings and rush food and water to hundreds of thousands of people without water, electricity, heat or telephon...

As the United States and South Korea ended four days of joint naval exercises off the North Korean coast, the South's intelligence chief on Wednesday warned that the North was likely to repeat a November 23 artillery attack that left four South Koreans dead."There is a high possibility that the North will make an additional attack," Won Sei-hoon, d...

North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire on Tuesday after dozens of shells fired from the North struck a South Korean island near the countries' disputed maritime border, South Korean military officials said. Two South Korean soldiers were killed, 15 were wounded and three civilians were injured, said Kiyheon Kwon, an official at the Defence ...

North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire on Tuesday after dozens of shells fired from the North struck a South Korean island near the countries' disputed maritime border, South Korean military officials said.South Korean artillery batteries returned fire with about 80 rounds, the military went to "crisis status," and fighter planes were scram...

The North Korean state media released a photograph on Thursday of Kim Jong-un, the newly anointed heir to the dictator Kim Jong-il, the first verified image of him as an adult.The newly released photo was published in the Thursday issue of North Korea's main newspaper, Rodong Shinmun, and showed him in a dark suit with his father and a large group ...

You could almost feel sorry for McDonald's. That's an odd sentiment when you consider that the company's revenues in 2014 were $27.4 billion and its stock price makes it worth something like $92 billion.

Emperor Akihito of Japan, in an unprecedented television address to the nation, said on Wednesday that he was "deeply worried" about the ongoing nuclear crisis at several stricken reactors and asked for people to act with compassion "to overcome these difficult times."An official with the Imperial Household Agency said that Akihito had never before...

Anxiety mounted in Japan on Tuesday as the country struggled to come to grips with the scope of the natural disaster that struck last Friday and the nuclear crisis it unleashed. The National Police Agency said Tuesday afternoon that, so far, 2,722 people were confirmed to have died in the earthquake and tsunami, and many thousands remained missing....

The tsunami that barrelled into northeast Japan on Friday was so murderous and efficient that not much was left when search-and-rescue teams finally reached Natori on Monday. There was searching, but not much rescuing. There was, essentially, nobody left to rescue. The mournful scene here in Natori, a farm and fishing town that has been reduced to ...

Japan reeled from a rapidly unfolding disaster of epic scale on Sunday, pummeled by the death toll, destruction and homelessness caused by the earthquake and tsunami and new hazards from damaged nuclear reactors that were leaking radiation. The Prime Minister called it Japan's worst crisis since World War II.Japan's $5 trillion economy, the third l...

While nuclear experts were grappling with possible meltdowns at two reactors after the devastating earthquake and ensuing tsunami in northern Japan, the country was mobilizing a nationwide rescue effort to pluck survivors from collapsed buildings and rush food and water to hundreds of thousands of people without water, electricity, heat or telephon...

As the United States and South Korea ended four days of joint naval exercises off the North Korean coast, the South's intelligence chief on Wednesday warned that the North was likely to repeat a November 23 artillery attack that left four South Koreans dead."There is a high possibility that the North will make an additional attack," Won Sei-hoon, d...

North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire on Tuesday after dozens of shells fired from the North struck a South Korean island near the countries' disputed maritime border, South Korean military officials said. Two South Korean soldiers were killed, 15 were wounded and three civilians were injured, said Kiyheon Kwon, an official at the Defence ...

North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire on Tuesday after dozens of shells fired from the North struck a South Korean island near the countries' disputed maritime border, South Korean military officials said.South Korean artillery batteries returned fire with about 80 rounds, the military went to "crisis status," and fighter planes were scram...

The North Korean state media released a photograph on Thursday of Kim Jong-un, the newly anointed heir to the dictator Kim Jong-il, the first verified image of him as an adult.The newly released photo was published in the Thursday issue of North Korea's main newspaper, Rodong Shinmun, and showed him in a dark suit with his father and a large group ...