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The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima an...

Nobuyo Oyama, a voice actress best known for playing the titular character in the popular Japanese anime series "Doraemon," has died, her ag...

Asian stocks were mostly lower on Friday as Chinese markets declined as investors await a key briefing about the details of the upcoming sti...

Gerrit Cole pitched like a postseason ace Thursday night, holding the Kansas City Royals to a single run over seven innings and sending the...

At least 20 miners were killed and seven injured in an attack by armed men on a small private coal mine in the southwestern Pakistani provin...

David Fry blasted the go-ahead two-run home run and the Cleveland Guardians held on for a 5-4 victory over Detroit Thursday to force a decis...

Former President Barack Obama made a passionate case against Donald Trump and in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday during a...

The Matsumoto branch of the Nagano District Public Prosecutors Office Police has indicted two Vietnamese men on charges of breaking and ente...

A 94th-minute winner by Vangelis Pavlidis gave Greece a 2-1 victory on Thursday against England in a Nations League clash overshadowed by th...

The World Bank's executive board on Thursday approved the creation of a financial intermediary fund (FIF) to support Ukraine, with contribut...

Japan maintained their 100 percent record in the third round of qualification for the 2026 World Cup with a 2-0 win against Saudi Arabia in...

ASEAN members were joined by Japan's new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and leaders from China and South Korea in Vientiane on Thursday for t...

Mookie Betts homered for the second straight night, Shohei Ohtani hit an RBI single and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat Dylan Cease and the San...

More than 370 million girls and women alive today, or one in every eight worldwide, experienced rape or sexual assault before the age of 18,...

Hurricane Milton made landfall on Florida's west coast on Wednesday, whipping up deadly tornadoes, destroying homes and provoking flash floo...

Riley Greene and Spencer Torkelson drove in runs with hits and Detroit blanked Cleveland 3-0 on Wednesday to reach the brink of advancing in...

Colorful floats, lit by chochin lanterns, proceed through a street in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, during the Takayama autumn festival on Wedn...

Scientists David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the award-giving body said on Wednesday, for w...

A 49-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly making more than 1,000 silent calls to the police emergency number in Tokyo, police said W...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba dissolved Japan's lower house of parliament Wednesday to set up an Oct 27 early election and seek the voters’...

A record 9.3 million people, including three million children, are facing hunger and hardship in the UK, a study said Wednesday, with the ne...

Fernando Tatis Jr's towering two-run home run highlighted a six-run second inning, and the San Diego Padres held on to beat the Los Angeles...

A surge of drugs is engulfing the paradisal South Pacific, as cartels and triads use far-flung island nations to channel narcotics across th...

Six months of success for the Philadelphia Phillies could be wiped out before the leaves start to turn.With one more loss to the New York M...

Yosuke Watanuki of Japan reacts after losing a point during his third round match against Taylor Fritz of the United States, in the Shanghai...