A strong earthquake hit Japan early Saturday off of the coast of that country at 3:10 am(Friday 9:10 am-Alaska time) measuring a magnitude of 7.1. The quake was generated at a depth of six miles beneath the ocean floor.
Leaders of the European Union's 28 nations will meet in Brussels on Thursday as controversy swirls over allegations the U.S. National Security Agency monitored the cell phone calls of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
A 14-year-old boy is in jail and being held without bail on Wednesday after the body of a 24-year-old teacher from Danvers High School in Essex County, Massachusetts was found in the woods shortly after midnight early this morning.
Charges have been reduced for the 30 activists arrested on piracy charges after some of the protester attempted to scale the Gazprom drilling rig in Russia's Pechora Sea in mid-September.