Shizuya Nishiyama, a 57-year-old homeless man from Hokkaido. Nishiyama says he briefly worked for Shuto, a firm with Fukushima decontamination contracts, clearing rubble. He now sleeps on a cardboard box in Sendai Station. He says he left after a dispute over wages. Cleaning up radioactive waste in Fukushima may be one of the worst jobs in Japan. Clean-up of the site has fallen behind schedule and

As if the recent string of high-profile scandals over Benghazi, AP phone records and the IRS weren't enough to land the Obama administration in political hot water, the controversial news of the National Security Agency's top secret PRISM program has now raised major privacy concerns for Americans. While civil liberties continue to face erosion by heightened security and surveillance programs, the

An Egyptian protester waves the national flag in Cairo’s landmark Tahrir Square on June 5, 2012. Egyptian activist Ahmed Douma became on Tuesday the latest critic of President Morsi to face charges for allegedly insulting the Islamist leader. In the Nile Delta city of Tanta a court ruled for the four-day detention of Douma in Damanhour’s general prison, as investigators look into charges of "delib

Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of late President John F. Kennedy, could become the next US ambassador to Japan,  Bloomberg News reported. Two sources told Bloomberg that she is Obama's first choice to nominate for the position. Kennedy, 55, would replace Ambassador John Roos. The president reportedly already signed off on Kennedy’s nomination, and others are now vetting her for the post. More from

Egyptian soldiers stand guard as protestors opposing President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans during a demonstration at the Presidential Palace on Dec. 18, 2012, in Cairo, Egypt. More than 50 people have been killed and hundreds more injured during violent protests this week against the government of President Mohamed Morsi. CAIRO, Egypt — A warning from Egypt’s defense minister this week that the E

A group of Chinese researchers have crushed the previous teleportation record using a newly invented steering device. A group of Chinese researchers claim they have successfully teleported photons 60 miles. In the group's abstract they note that teleportation isn't exactly new. "In the laboratory, quantum teleportation has been demonstrated over short distance by photonic and atomic qubits. Using

A Philippine marine aboard their boat, conduct security patrol along Ulugan Bay, facing South China Sea in Puerto Princesa, Palawan island, south of Manila on April 25, 2012. HONG KONG, China — With a US ally engaged in a tense standoff with China over disputed territory in the South China Sea, America risks wading into increasingly perilous waters. The conflict began in mid-April, when a Filipino

CAIRO, Egypt and MARAWI, Ethiopia — Amid the barren, earth-dug canals and emaciated livestock that stalk the dirt roads of Ethiopia’s northern highlands, Teshale, a 25-year-old farmer, waits idly for the rain to come. His small, parched field of maize — sometimes wheat, if the weather permits — relies solely on the area’s seasonal rainfall to produce its harvest, which fails to turn even a meager

Replicas of a North Korean Scud-B missile (C-behind) and South Korean Hawk surface-to-air missiles (foreground) are seen at the Korean War Memorial in Seoul on February 17, 2011. A long-range missile North Korea plans to launch next month will be aimed towards South-East Asia and Australia, a senior US official has warned Canberra. The Fairfax media cited Kurt Campbell, the assistant secretary of

Kim Han Sol, the grandson of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is making waves by attending high school in Bosnia. (Photo by Nate Tabak.) Story from PRI’s The World. Listen to the above audio for a complete report. Studying abroad seems to be par for the course when you’re a member of the North Korean leader’s family. Two of Kim Jong Il’s sons went to Switzerland for boarding school and his daughter

Anti-nuclear activists participate in a demonstration on March 17, 2011 in Sant Jaume square, in Barcelona. Thousands of anti-nuclear demonstrators, in reaction to the dramatic situation at the Fukushima nuclear facility in Japan, gathered in cities across Spain to protest the government-granted extension of the operational lives of Spain’s older nuclear power plants. In the days after Japan’s Fuk