TOKYO ( AP) — Another Japanese nuclear reactor was taken off line for maintenance today, leaving the country with only one of its 54 reactors operational following last year’s devastating earthquake and tsunami. The last reactor is expected to be shut down by early May, raising the possibility of power shortages across the nation as […]

HONOLULU (AP) — “Titanic” director James Cameron dove to the Earth’s deepest point in a specially designed submarine, the National Geographic Society said, making him the first man to travel alone to the near 7-mile depth of the Marianas Trench. The Hollywood icon, also the director of “Avatar” and other films, touched down in the […]

SANTIAGO, Cuba (AP) — This sun- scorched city is accustomed to playing second fiddle to Havana at the other end of Cuba. Today, Santiago de Cuba gets a real day in the sun because Pope Benedict XVI is beginning his Cuba trip here. Authorities have built huge steel arches in the shape of a papal […]

BAMAKO, Mali ( AP) — Demonstrators in Mali’s capital are demanding a return to constitutional order days after mutinous soldiers claimed power in a coup. About a thousand people, including members of youth movements and political parties, gathered today in central Bamako. Some of the youth groups threatened to march on state TV and radio […]

GIGLIO, Italy ( AP) — Divers have recovered nearly all of the bodies from the wreck of the Costa Concordia, two months after the cruise ship struck a reef and capsized off Italy’s Tuscan coast. Italy’s Civil Protection Agency said that by early this afternoon divers had brought up four of the five bodies located […]

HARDY, Ark. (AP) — Rescue crews are searching for a 3-year-old boy who went missing from a Boy Scout camp in northeastern Arkansas. Arkansas State Police say Caleb Linn has not been seen since Saturday morning. Police say Caleb was among 11 children working on a cleanup project at a bridge near the Kia Kima […]

SEOUL, South Korea — President Barack Obama warned North Korea and Iran today that their options are few, and their friends fewer, as those nations refuse to back down from actions the world sees as menacing. “By now it should be clear,” Obama said, addressing North Korea from the South Korean capital only about 30 miles […]

SEATAC, Wash. (AP) — The wife of a U.S. soldier accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians says her husband showed no signs of PTSD before he deployed, and adds that she doesn’t feel like she’ll ever believe he was involved in the killings. Karilyn Bales defended her husband, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, in an interview […]

KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan soldier shot and killed two British troops today at a NATO coalition base in southern Afghanistan before being gunned down by international forces, officials said. The attack was the latest in a string of so-called “green on blue” attacks in which Afghan security forces have turned their guns on their international […]

BETHEL (AP) — Authorities are looking for a 62-yearold woman with medical conditions who was last seen two weeks ago shortly after she moved from Lewiston to Bethel. An Oxford County Sheriff ’s captain says Fay Johnson is considered missing and endangered. Police tell the Sun Journal that her landlord in Bethel, who had been […]