A shirt taken from a dead Japanese soldier was returned to relatives -- giving them something to put on the family altar
A magnitude 7.4 earthquake off the coast of Japan early Wednesday triggered a tsunami warning for a group of remote islands and an advisory for the southern region of the country, the Japanese Meteorological Agency said.
This past weekend, Iraq had a real election and in spite of threats and bombings, millions of voters participated in record numbers. It is a giant step forward in Iraq's road to democracy and has the potential to be a beacon for others in this battle-scarred region.
Director Kathryn Bigelow, whose film "The Hurt Locker" won six Oscars, says "never give up on your dream."
Jerry Yellin has spent most of his life trying to forget about the stench of death on the island of Iwo Jima 65 years ago.
In Paul Syverson's photo album, there is only one family picture, taken right after his little sister was born. Paul, then 7, and his father beam with an identical grin.
Military families and kids get help adjusting to the loss of a parent, as CNN's Kate Bolduan reports.
One of the Marines shown in a famous World War II photograph raising the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima was posthumously awarded a certificate of U.S. citizenship on Tuesday.
A 73-year oversight was rectified Tuesday when immigration authorities posthumously presented citizenship papers to a relative of Strank, the oldest of the six flag raisers and the first to be killed in combat as the Iwo Jima battle raged on
Spike Lee says Clint Eastwood didn't show any African-Americans at the battle. Who's right?
Raymond Jacobs, believed to be the last surviving member of the group of Marines photographed during the original U.S. flag-raising on Iwo Jima during World War II, has died at age 82.
Paul Haggis' new movie looks at how war changes the people who fight it and the world we live in
Even as the great and good assemble for the annual orgy of self-congratulation that is the Oscars ceremony, you have to wonder if there has ever been a greater disconnect between the films up for the awards and the movies the studios are pumping out on a weekly basis.
Like a potential hit movie, the 79th Academy Awards come equipped with any number of promising storylines.
Talk about musical chairs.
The first-round votes are in, the top fives are being finalized, and now all that's left is the announcement of the nominations for the 79th annual Academy Awards. The big moment is slated for Tuesday morning at 8:38 a.m. ET (5:38 a.m. on the West Coast).
Actors, actresses and directors were eagerly awaiting the Academy Award nominations announcement on Tuesday morning.
Looking at some of the Golden Globe nominees, you wonder if anyone speaks the same language.
It has become almost meaningless to talk of "the year" in American film. The business is now more seasonal than the climate. No less than three of my top five choices were released within the last two weeks of December; such is the magnetic lock of the Oscar period.
There aren't many examples of war films made from the vantage point of "the enemy," but perhaps there should be more.
"Babel," the intertwined, cross-cultural story of desperate people in three far-flung parts of the world, led all films in nominations for the 64th Golden Globes, picking up seven nods Wednesday.
Clint Eastwood was 14 when Battle of Iwo Jima took place in 1945, old enough to know how Joe Rosenthal's famous picture vouched for victory and -- with a little help from John Wayne's "Sands of Iwo Jima" -- endowed the Marine Corps with a mythic luster that persists to this day.
What's Next?updated: Mon Oct 10 2005 10:50:00
Speculating on how we're going to be living in 2020 is best left to the futurists and to science fiction; instead, TIME's "What's Next?" feature offers a sneak peak at the technologies that are just around the corner, and at the trends, events and people that will matter in 2006. And it explores how some of America's finest minds contemplate and plan for the immediate future.
On the eve of Memorial Day, the U.S. Mint is remembering America's fighting men and women.
showbuzzupdated: Mon Jul 12 2004 11:17:00
"You will never hear me ask what someone is wearing again," says Pat O'Brien, talking about his new syndicated entertainment show, "The Insider."
Fortune: ROCK OF AGESupdated: Mon Sep 24 1990 00:01:00
The tiny Pacific island of Okinotorishima at the extreme southern end of the Japanese archipelago gives new meaning to the term ''flyspeck.'' At high tide it consists of two coral rocks 10 and 16 f...
Fortune: THE LEATHERNECKupdated: Mon Sep 26 1988 00:01:00
Richard L. Mugg, 56, spent four years in the Marine Corps. So it's no surprise that the new top gun at Audi of America gets combative when he analyzes the beleaguered luxury-car division of Volkswa...
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