You never know how a small lapse in judgment can come back to haunt you exponentially down the road. Stealing a stamp here and there or selling a cow without permission can add up to crimes resulting ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent a ritual offering to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Monday. Ishiba sent the masakaki offering to the Shinto shrine, seen as a symbol of Japan's wartime ...

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Global tax plans targeting billionaires and multinational companies are running aground, with the United States torpedoing reforms under President Donald Trump. The billionaire real estate tycoon has ...

Commercial plane prices, already lifted in recent years due to pandemic supply chain shocks, are poised to climb further as Boeing and Airbus are buffeted by trade tariffs. "Compared with 2018, prices ...

Young women standing idly around a park in Tokyo's west suggest that a giant statue of Godzilla is not the only attraction for a record number of foreign tourists. Their faces lit by the cold glow of ...

With Sunday marking one week since the opening of the six-month World Exposition on an artificial island in Osaka Bay, organizers and visitors are bracing for hot weather, as entrance gates and ...

Tessa Janecke scored the winner as the United States prevailed in overtime over defending champion Canada 4-3 to win the women’s ice hockey world championship on Sunday. Janecke struck with 2:54 left ...

The Premier League title is so close Liverpool can almost touch it. Trent Alexander-Arnold's second-half strike against Leicester on Sunday pushed the Merseyside club to within one more win of a ...

Al-Qaida affiliate JNIM said it killed 70 soldiers in raids on two military posts in north Benin, the biggest death count claimed by jihadists in the country in over a decade of activity in West ...

Holger Rune beat world number two Carlos Alcaraz 7-6 (8/6), 6-2 on Sunday to win the Barcelona Open for the first time. Rune was nearly flawless as he became only the second player to beat Alcaraz in ...

McLaren's Oscar Piastri won the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix on Sunday from Red Bull polesitter Max Verstappen to lead the world championship for the first time in his career after one of his "toughest" ...