Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was acquitted of a royal defamation charge by a court on Friday, in a ...

Straddling Saijo and Kumakogen in Ehime Prefecture, Mt. Ishizuchi is the highest mountain in western Japan, standing at 1,982 ...

Canada is dropping many of its retaliatory tariffs to match U.S. tariff exemptions for goods covered under the United ...

Police in Sri Lanka arrested former President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday over allegations that the senior opposition ...

East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) said Thursday that it will cancel one trip of a luxury overnight sleeper service after crew ...

Israel’s defense minister warned Friday that Gaza’s largest city could be destroyed unless Hamas yields to his country’s ...

Akie Iwai took a three-stroke lead into the weekend in the CPKC Women’s Open in her bid to win for the second straight week.

South Korean entertainment companies riding the Korean Wave, or Hallyu, are scrambling to widen their global reach as Asia’s ...

The world’s leading authority on food crises said Friday the Gaza Strip’s largest city is gripped by famine, and that it’s ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday opened the door ever so slightly to lowering a key interest rate in the coming ...

Eighty years ago, Japan lost its war against the United States. The battlefield was the vast Pacific Ocean and the islands ...

Malaria is a major obstacle to Africa’s development. The Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), led ...