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Former Unit 731 Youth Corps member Hideo Shimizu, 95, speaks during an interview at his home in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. He was with the unit for the final five months of WWII. Anthony/Kuhn hide caption toggle caption Anthony/Kuhn On the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in WWII, the legacy of a biological warfare unit still

President Trump is exerting an unprecedented amount of control over the shape and future of U.S. business. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images Corporate America doesn't want to fight with President Trump in public. But as a result, it's ceding him an unprecedented amount of control over

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (R) welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in front of Chancellery ahead of a virtual meeting between European leaders, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump on August 13, 2025 in Berlin, Germany. Filip Singer/Getty Images Europe hide caption toggle caption Filip Singer/Getty Images Europe INKOO, Finland — Ukraine's President

Good morning. You're reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today's top stories In a press conference yesterday, President Trump vowed to use the National Guard and the Metropolitan Police Department to target criminals in

A view of the ancient site of Gobekli Tepe, known as the world's oldest temple, in Sanliurfa, Turkey, on Feb. 17. Mustafa Hatipoglu/Anadolu via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mustafa Hatipoglu/Anadolu via Getty Images GOBEKLI TEPE, Turkey — Tour guide Sabahattin Alkan herds curious tourists through the scorching afternoon heat, luring them with the

Gara, a Siberian tiger, cares for her newborn cubs at the Aalborg Zoo in Denmark in 2008. Henning Bagger/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Henning Bagger/AFP via Getty Images A European zoo stirred up intrigue and controversy after a social media post asking for surplus pets to be donated to feed captive animals

A broken transformer in Badagry, Nigeria that hasn't worked for over 5 years. Local residents say electricity officials have never been sent to repair it. Emmanuel Akinwotu/NPR hide caption toggle caption Emmanuel Akinwotu/NPR In Africa’s most populous country more than a third of residents have no access to electricity. Even those connected to the nation’s crumbling power grid

Iryna Schestova, 50, and her daughter, Liia Kazakova, 26, sit in the living room of a friend's home in Horenychi, a suburb of Kyiv, Ukraine. Kazakova is staying in the home instead of with her mother because she can't sleep at night listening to the sounds of war from her mother's apartment in central Kyiv.