NKOREA-NUCLEAR — North Korea has caused a new stir with photos on the front page of its ruling party newspaper Wednesday that show the country's leader Kim Jong Un standing beside a purported mock-up of a miniaturized nuclear warhead during a meeting with his top nuclear scientists. 

JAPAN-TSUNAMI-NUCLEAR REFUGEES — They feel like refugees, although they live in one of the world's richest and most peaceful nations. Five years ago, these former residents of Fukushima fled their homes as a nearby nuclear plant melted down. Although the government has started to open up previously off-limits areas, most "nuclear refugees" don't believe it is safe to go back. Now a new fear looms: a cut-off of government housing aid. 

JAPAN-TSUNAMI-THEN AND NOW-PHOTO ESSAY — AP photographer Eugene Hoshiko travels to five towns hard hit by the tsunami to capture how much has changed five years later.

MYANMAR — Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's decades-long battle to bring democracy to Myanmar is likely to come to fruition on Thursday with a whimper, not a bang. Despite leading her party to a smashing election victory last year, she seems certain not to become her country's leader. 

ASIA-TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE — People gazed at the sky in wonder and cheered while others knelt in prayer as a total eclipse of the sun unfolded over Indonesia on Wednesday, briefly plunging cities into darkness and startling wildlife. The rare astronomical phenomenon was witnessed along a narrow path that stretched across 12 Indonesian provinces encompassing three time zones and about 40 million people. By Andi Jatmiko and Stephen Wright. 

AUSTRALIA-IRANIAN-ASYLUM-SEEKERS — Australia hopes to send thousands of Iranian asylum seekers back to their homeland under a new deal with Tehran.