According to Nobel Prize founder Alfred Nobel, the award goes to “those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind”  Though Alfred Nobel ...

On Oct. 11, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced it had selected the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo for the award.

This is a concern Times Opinion shares as the world’s nine nuclear powers expand and enhance their arsenals. Proliferation by new nations is coming closer to reality, and threats to use nuclear ...

An estimated 50,000 Koreans in Hiroshima and 20,000 in Nagasaki were exposed to radiation during the US’ atomic bombings — ...

TOKYO (AP) — The recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize is a fast-dwindling group of atomic bomb survivors who are facing down the shrinking time they have left to convey the firsthand horror they ...

White House National Security Council spokesperson Sean Savett said the involvement of North Korean troops in Ukraine, if true, would mark a significant increase in the North Korea-Russia defense ...

The Israeli military said it conducted a strike on an underground Hezbollah weapons stockpile in the southern Beirut suburb ...

CHIBA—Theoretically, anyone might be able to sink shots like Michael Jordan with a little help from an artificial intelligence “friend.” ...

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Tokyo’s Archbishop Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi, who will turn 66 on Nov. 1, is one of the newly appointed princes — the second ...

In the 1990s, China began sending pandas to foreign zoos to be bred, in the hope that future generations could be released into the wild. It hasn’t gone as planned. By Mara Hvistendahl and Joy ...

Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris held a marginal 3-percentage-point lead over Republican Donald Trump - 45% to 42% - as the two stayed locked in a tight race to win the Nov. 5 U.S ...