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Six-time Olympic cycling champion Chris Hoy revealed Saturday that he has terminal cancer and has been told by doctors he has "two to four y...

Former world champions Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara of Japan opened the figure skating grand prix season with a pairs victory at Skate Amer...

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s plan to end Ukraine’s nearly three-year war with Russia has received mixed reactions from Western allies so...

Cleveland All-Star closer Emmanuel Clase gave up two runs in the ninth inning and the New York Yankees moved closer to another World Series,...

A man was arrested in Tokyo after throwing several petrol bombs at the ruling party headquarters Saturday morning, Japanese media said, just...

The United States on Friday reported a budget deficit of $1.8 trillion for the past year, widening from 2023's level on greater spending, in...

The U.S. State Department approved a possible sale to Japan of tactical missiles and related equipment for $360 million, the Pentagon said i...

Cuba was plunged into a nationwide blackout on Friday after the island's biggest power plant failed, the energy ministry said, coming on the...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday faced accusations of seeking to reduce the media to merely reproducing press releases after blami...

Welcome to another episode of Japan This Week, your weekly roundup of trending news stories from Japan Today .In this episode, Jeff cover...

Venezuela detained five more foreigners, including three U.S. citizens, for their alleged connection to a plot to destabilize the country, t...

New life begins with the meeting of sperm and egg. But how they fuse together has long been a mystery.New research by scientists in Austria...

Rui Nakayama, left, and Hana Shimizu, 20-year-old college students, sit along the Sumida River as the moon shines behind Tokyo Skytree in To...

Japan racked up a trade deficit of 294.3 billion yen in September, according to Finance Ministry data released Thursday, as exports fell to...

Shohei Ohtani launched a three-run homer for the Los Angeles Dodgers that punctuated their 8-0 victory over the New York Mets in Game 3 of t...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent an offering to Yasukuni Shrine, his office said on Thursday, drawing criticism from South Korea...

A Georgia judge has declared that seven new election rules recently passed by the State Election Board are “illegal, unconstitutional and vo...

Among the Group of Seven nations, Japan has consistently maintained the highest percentage of people over age 65 who still work. Between 20...

Jannik Sinner beat Daniil Medvedev 6-0, 6-3 on Wednesday at the Six Kings Slam, an exhibition event for a half-dozen men that awards money b...

As the presidential race moves into its final weeks, Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump embarked on an interview blitz that...

Victims of domestic violence in New Zealand will be allowed to cut ties to abusive spouses more quickly after lawmakers unanimously voted We...

The United States, South Korea and Japan on Wednesday announced the launch of a new multinational team to monitor the enforcement of sanctio...

Aaron Judge hit his first home run of the Major League Baseball playoffs and the New York Yankees beat Cleveland 6-3 on Tuesday, seizing com...

Australia said on Wednesday it would invest billions of dollars over the next two decades to expand a shipyard in Western Australia that wou...

Courts in U.S. battleground states are taking steps to expedite lawsuits over the Nov 5 election, hoping to avoid drawn-out disputes that co...