Japanese police have obtained an arrest warrant for a woman suspected of forcing her 12-year-old Thai daughter into sex work at a Tokyo massage parlor in a possible human trafficking case, an ...

Japan’s national broadcaster — cut its viewing fees for the first time in nearly a decade. The move hasn’t made the system any more popular. NHK’s door-to-door fee collectors — often referred to as ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom assured an audience at the COP30 climate summit in Brazil that his state would continue to prioritize green technology, while blasting U.S. President Donald Trump's ...

Top diplomats from the Group of Seven industrialized democracies are converging on southern Ontario as tensions rise between the U.S. and traditional allies like Canada over defense spending, trade ...

Venezuela is deploying weapons, including decades-old Russian-made equipment, and is planning to mount a guerrilla-style resistance or sow chaos in the event of a U.S. air or ground attack, according ...

Red poppy flowers were dropped onto soldiers, politicians and onlookers from across the world gathered in western Belgium on Tuesday to commemorate the end of World War I. They laid wreaths at a newly ...

Police in Tokyo have arrested a woman in her 30s and her common-law husband, who is in his 20s, on suspicion of parental neglect by failing to provide their elementary school-age daughter with ...

Asian shares mostly gained in cautious trading Wednesday after most U.S. stocks rose, settling back to where they were before last week’s swoon over the future of artificial intelligence. U.S. futures ...

Japan decried as "absolutely unacceptable" on Wednesday Russia's extension of an entry ban to 30 more citizens, among them a foreign ministry spokesperson, after Tokyo's sanctions over Moscow's nearly ...

A decision on whether to file charges against an Indiana homeowner suspected of killing of a Guatemalan house cleaner after she mistakenly went to the wrong address may not come for days, prosecutors ...

It’s supposed to fight off invaders to keep us healthy. But sometimes it turns traitor and attacks our own cells and tissues. What are called autoimmune diseases can affect just about every part of ...

A blue diamond weighing nearly 10 carats has sold at auction in Switzerland for 20.5 million Swiss francs ($26.6 million) including fees. The 9.51-carat “Mellon Blue” — named for the late American ...