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North Korea fires missile over Japan Citizens on Japan's northern Hokkaido island warned to 'evacuate to basement' Donald Trump says 'All options are on the table' Japan condemns launch as 'unprecedented threat' China warns situation now at a 'tipping point' South Korea responds with bombing drills UN Security Council to hold meeting on Tuesday 'There's nowhere to run': Japanese residents tell of 'worrying' alerts US President Donald Trump said all options to respond to North Korea were on the table after Pyongyang fired a ballistic missile over Japan earlier on Tuesday. "The world has received North Korea’s latest message loud and clear: this regime has signaled its contempt for its neighbors, for all members of the United Nations, and for minimum standards of acceptable international behavior," Mr Trump said in the statement released by the White House. "Threatening and destabilising actions only increase the Nort...

Neil deGrasse Tyson is thrilled that Americans came together to witness the total eclipse of the sun this month.

Joshua Witt, 26, has now been arrested on false reporting charges after he admitted he lied to officers in Sheridan, Colorado, by alleging a black man had attacked him for having a haircut associated with white supremacists. In a now-deleted Facebook post, Witt said: “Soooooooo apparently I look like a neo-Nazi and got stabbed for it. Witt told police his attacker was a black man in his mid 20s, who was wearing a green shirt and blue trousers and ran towards a bike path that runs along a nearby river.

As many Houston businesses close down amid widespread flooding, one local businessman has opened his furniture stores as shelter to hundreds of displaced Texans.

More than 50,000 cans of water have made it to flood-damaged communities.

"HISTORIC rainfall in Houston, and all over Texas.

ROHTAK, India (AP) — A judge on Monday sentenced a popular and flamboyant Indian spiritual guru to a total of 20 years in prison on charges of raping two female followers.

A vital dam in suburban Houston that protects the central city began overspilling on Tuesday, and officials said the rainfall from Harvey is so unprecedented they do not know what the impact on surrounding communities will be. Water levels in the Addicks reservoir have reached 108ft, said Jeff Lindner, a Harris County flood control district meteorologist.

The Corps of Engineers said it needs to release water now to prevent uncontrolled water flowing from the dams. Water is being released from the Addicks and Barker into Buffalo Bayou, the primary body of water running through Houston. "If we don’t begin releasing now, the volume of uncontrolled water around the dams will be higher and have a greater impact on the surrounding communities," said Col. Lars Zetterstrom, Galveston District commander of the Corps.

The nation’s fourth-largest city has been hit with more than 20 inches of rain since Friday. Forecasters say another 30 inches of rain could fall in southeast Texas over the next few days.

Mexico told President Donald Trump again in no uncertain terms that it will not be paying for his proposed border wall, no matter what he says — or tweets — on the matter.

The Cajun Navy departed Louisiana on Sunday, heading straight to where they are needed most -- Southeast Texas.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said there had been more than 500 reports of price gouging in the wake of the storm.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The Latest on North Korea firing a missile over Japan (all times local):

As a van full of family members tried to escape Harvey, violent floodwaters engulfed the vehicle and six people are presumed dead, including four siblings aged 6 to 16, a relative said.

There are many reasons to avoid floodwater whenever possible, but residents of Houston struggling under Tropical Storm Harvey's unprecedented downpour needn't fear a shark. A photo of a shark supposedly swimming through Houston's flooded streets went viral on Monday ... but the photo's fake.  SEE ALSO: Hurricane Harvey's deadliest threat is just beginning The shark in this photo isn't native to waters anywhere near the United States, but was originally photographed watching a kayaker in South Africa.  Published in a 2005 issue of Africa Geographic , conservation photographer Thomas Peschak snapped the original (and stunning) image while working on a book about great white sharks. Here's how it happened, according to Peschak: The shot is iconic, and the shark in it has repeatedly found new digital life. It's popped up in edited photographs that show the shark swimming through flooded streets in various cities for years, from New Jersey to Puerto Rico.  Pe...

A reporter covering Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas, posted a heartbreaking photo on Instagram showing two dogs that he believes were left behind by a desperate family fleeing flood waters.

As the unprecedented Hurricane Harvey’s aftermath continues to pummel Texas, lawmakers in New York and New Jersey have been criticizing their Texas colleagues for potential hypocrisy ― asking for aid for their state when they were unwilling to support relief for storm victims in another part of the country. At the time, all but one Texas Republican in Congress voted against a $50.5 billion Hurricane Sandy relief package in 2013. “I covered those people,” Tur continued, speaking of the victims of Hurricane Sandy.

Harris County, Texas, is home to around 4.5 million people and more than 40 percent of the nation’s petrochemical capacity.

The little girl survived her fall off a bridge, police said.