Kevin Drew New York Times

Mr. Mak, a university student in Hong Kong, went from being an unknown, aspiring graphic designer to an Internet sensation after an image he produced spread rapidly across digital platforms following the death of Steven P. Jobs, the co-founder of Apple.

Workers at Japan's ravaged nuclear power plant on Tuesday renewed a bid to bring its command centres back into service and to restore electricity to vital cooling systems, but an overheating spent fuel pool hampered efforts and raised the threat of further radiation leaks. The storage pool at Fukushima Daiichi Power Station's No. 2 Reactor, which h...

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...

An 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Japan on Friday, the strongest ever recorded in the country and one of the largest anywhere in the last century. The quake churned up a devastating tsunami that swept over cities and farmland in the northern part of the country and set off warnings as far away as the West Coast of the United State...

A massive earthquake struck Japan  on Friday, setting off a devastating tsunami that swept over cities and farmland along the northern part of the country and threatened coastal areas throughout the Pacific. (In Pics: Japan earthquake triggers tsunami)Walls of water swept away houses and cars in northern Japan and pushed ships aground. Trains...

The death toll from severe flooding in northeastern Australia  rose on Monday as authorities airlifted supplies to communities facing raging waters that were expected to rise for up to two more days.Nine people were confirmed dead on Monday from the flooding, and another was reported missing and presumed dead, according to a spokeswoman for th...

Three airlines suspended flights of Airbus A380 superjumbo jetliners on Thursday after an engine on a Qantas plane blew apart shortly after takeoff from Singapore.Debris fell on an Indonesian island, and the plane, with more than 450 people aboard, spent 90 tense minutes circling with its three remaining engines, dumping fuel and preparing for an e...

Qantas Airways said on Thursday that it is suspending all flights of its Airbus A380 jetliners after an engine failure earlier in the day forced a flight to make an emergency landing in Singapore. (See Pictures) Alan Joyce, Qantas's chief executive, said the Australian airline would suspend services on its A380 fleet "until we are confident that Qa...

Reaction across Asia to the U.S. elections on Wednesday was muted as attention focused on the planned tour by President Obama to the region, scheduled to begin Friday in India.Republicans captured control of the House of Representatives on Tuesday and expanded their presence in the Senate. Additional Republican gains in state governorships reflecte...

Russia struggled on Friday to gain control of hundreds of wildfires raging across the country that have claimed at least 50 lives, clogged the skies with a stinging smog, snarled air travel and forced the military to transfer weapons away from a base near Moscow.At Moscow's Domodedovo Airport dozens of flights were delayed as visibility on the runw...

Mr. Mak, a university student in Hong Kong, went from being an unknown, aspiring graphic designer to an Internet sensation after an image he produced spread rapidly across digital platforms following the death of Steven P. Jobs, the co-founder of Apple.

Workers at Japan's ravaged nuclear power plant on Tuesday renewed a bid to bring its command centres back into service and to restore electricity to vital cooling systems, but an overheating spent fuel pool hampered efforts and raised the threat of further radiation leaks. The storage pool at Fukushima Daiichi Power Station's No. 2 Reactor, which h...

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...

An 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Japan on Friday, the strongest ever recorded in the country and one of the largest anywhere in the last century. The quake churned up a devastating tsunami that swept over cities and farmland in the northern part of the country and set off warnings as far away as the West Coast of the United State...

A massive earthquake struck Japan  on Friday, setting off a devastating tsunami that swept over cities and farmland along the northern part of the country and threatened coastal areas throughout the Pacific. (In Pics: Japan earthquake triggers tsunami)Walls of water swept away houses and cars in northern Japan and pushed ships aground. Trains...

The death toll from severe flooding in northeastern Australia  rose on Monday as authorities airlifted supplies to communities facing raging waters that were expected to rise for up to two more days.Nine people were confirmed dead on Monday from the flooding, and another was reported missing and presumed dead, according to a spokeswoman for th...

Three airlines suspended flights of Airbus A380 superjumbo jetliners on Thursday after an engine on a Qantas plane blew apart shortly after takeoff from Singapore.Debris fell on an Indonesian island, and the plane, with more than 450 people aboard, spent 90 tense minutes circling with its three remaining engines, dumping fuel and preparing for an e...

Qantas Airways said on Thursday that it is suspending all flights of its Airbus A380 jetliners after an engine failure earlier in the day forced a flight to make an emergency landing in Singapore. (See Pictures) Alan Joyce, Qantas's chief executive, said the Australian airline would suspend services on its A380 fleet "until we are confident that Qa...

Reaction across Asia to the U.S. elections on Wednesday was muted as attention focused on the planned tour by President Obama to the region, scheduled to begin Friday in India.Republicans captured control of the House of Representatives on Tuesday and expanded their presence in the Senate. Additional Republican gains in state governorships reflecte...

Russia struggled on Friday to gain control of hundreds of wildfires raging across the country that have claimed at least 50 lives, clogged the skies with a stinging smog, snarled air travel and forced the military to transfer weapons away from a base near Moscow.At Moscow's Domodedovo Airport dozens of flights were delayed as visibility on the runw...