An overcrowded bus carrying dozens of Buddhist pilgrims plummeted into a precipice in Sri Lanka on Sunday, killing at least 21 and injuring 24, a senior transport official said. The island nation's ...

Three Chinese nationals were arrested for operating a poker gambling den in Tokyo, police said, suspecting they made over 60 million yen in less than a year. Wang Yi, a 42-year-old resident of Tokyo's ...

Police in Ota City, Gunma Prefecture, have arrested a 17-year-old high school student on suspicion of attempted murder after he stabbed a 17-year-old Brazilian youth in the back on Saturday night.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba expressed caution about a consumption tax cut as an inflation relief step on Sunday, suggesting such a reduction in tax revenue would cause a serious drain on state ...

In the early months of 2022, as Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, millions of Ukrainians — mostly women and children — fled to Poland, where they were met with an extraordinary outpouring ...

Google will pay $1.4 billion to Texas to settle claims the company collected users' data without permission, the state’s attorney general has announced. In 2022, Attorney General Ken Paxton sued ...

Hamas's armed wing released a video on Saturday showing two Israeli hostages alive in the Gaza Strip, with one of the two men calling to end the 19-month-long war. The pair were identified by the ...

The long-awaited return of Erling Haaland couldn't stop Manchester City from tumbling to another poor result in a season to forget for the deposed Premier League champion. Indeed, after a dire 0-0 ...

Some 39 percent of people in Japan feel lonely at times, according to a recent government survey, with legislation that took effect in April last year to address isolation apparently not yet having a ...

Studio Ghibli released a special range of goods to celebrate the 25th anniversary of "Princess Mononoke." One of the key items in the collection was the Wolf Fang Dagger Ballpoint Pen, which proved to ...

A senior official of the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry. There are concerns that if Japan accepts vehicles designed in accordance with the safety standards of the United States, ...

The number of people using the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet trains between Tokyo and Osaka during the country's Golden Week holidays was up 5 percent from a year earlier amid booming inbound tourism, the ...