Google is building a car without a steering wheel. Sergey Brin, co-founder of the technology titan, told a Southern California technology conference on Tuesday evening that Google will make 100 prototype cars that drive themselves and therefore do not need ...

May 28, 2014: Hospital employees kneel and bow to apologize for victims of a fire outside of a hospital in Jangseong, South Korea. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Hyung Min-woo). SEOUL, South Korea – Twenty-one people suffocated and seven people were injured ...

Former Thai Education Minister Chaturon Chaisang, center, walks after being detained by soldiers after a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, May 27, 2014. Thai troops detained the Cabinet ...

Former Thai Education Minister Chaturon Chaisang, center, walks after being detained by soldiers after a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, May 27, 2014. Thai troops detained the Cabinet ...

SEOUL - A 71-year-old man set fire on a subway train in Seoul on Wednesday, but no casualties were reported. The fire started at around 10.50am local time when the arsonist, identified only by his surname Cho, doused a seat inside a subway car ...

SEOUL - A 71-year-old man set fire on a subway train in Seoul on Wednesday, but no casualties were reported. The fire started at around 10.50am local time when the arsonist, identified only by his surname Cho, doused a seat inside a subway car ...

SEOUL - A 71-year-old man set fire on a subway train in Seoul on Wednesday, but no casualties were reported. The fire started at around 10.50am local time when the arsonist, identified only by his surname Cho, doused a seat inside a subway car ...

SEOUL - A 71-year-old man set fire on a subway train in Seoul on Wednesday, but no casualties were reported. The fire started at around 10.50am local time when the arsonist, identified only by his surname Cho, doused a seat inside a subway car ...

SEOUL - A 71-year-old man set fire on a subway train in Seoul on Wednesday, but no casualties were reported. The fire started at around 10.50am local time when the arsonist, identified only by his surname Cho, doused a seat inside a subway car ...

SEOUL - A 71-year-old man set fire on a subway train in Seoul on Wednesday, but no casualties were reported. The fire started at around 10.50am local time when the arsonist, identified only by his surname Cho, doused a seat inside a subway car ...

SEOUL - A 71-year-old man set fire on a subway train in Seoul on Wednesday, but no casualties were reported. The fire started at around 10.50am local time when the arsonist, identified only by his surname Cho, doused a seat inside a subway car ...

BEIJING May 28 (Reuters) - China will boost funding to regions that do well in reining in air pollution and punish laggards, the cabinet has decided, as Beijing pushes local governments to step up the war on smog. The fight on crippling pollution that ...

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. May 27 (Reuters) - Google Inc is building cars that don't have steering wheels, accelerator pedals or brake pedals, in an ambitious expansion of the Internet company's efforts to develop self-driving cars. The small electric ...

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. May 27 (Reuters) - Google Inc is building cars that don't have steering wheels, accelerator pedals or brake pedals, in an ambitious expansion of the Internet company's efforts to develop self-driving cars. The small electric ...

Kabul: Post-2014, the Obama administration has planned to withdraw all but 9,800 US troops from Afghanistan, signalling an end to more than a dozen years of military involvement in the South Asian country that was sparked by 9/11 attacks. The crucial US ...

SANTA BARBARA -- For a long minute Tuesday, a 20,000-strong contingent of mourners fell into an eerie silence as they gathered to remember the six university students -- including three from the Bay Area -- killed by a self-professed misanthrope. The only ...

By Todd Pitman And Thanyarat Doksone. BANGKOK, Thailand — Propaganda videos distributed by Thailand's new military junta aired Wednesday on television stations nationwide, part of an effort to convince the public that detainees in army custody are ...

An employee works at an assembly line at a manufacturing plant in Rayong province, Thailand, in this May 3, 2012, file photo. Reuters. Times are getting tougher for Thailand's auto industry. The declaration last week of a coup d'etat is fueling concern that ...

A FIRE which swept through a South Korean hospice for elderly, infirm patients, killing 21 people, appeared to be an act of arson by an 81-year-old Alzheimer's sufferer, police say. Seven were injured in the blaze, which broke out shortly after midnight at the ...

A FIRE which swept through a South Korean hospice for elderly, infirm patients, killing 21 people, appeared to be an act of arson by an 81-year-old Alzheimer's sufferer, police say. Seven were injured in the blaze, which broke out shortly after midnight at the ...