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Republican leaders projected confidence Thursday that they will keep control of the U.S. House as more races were decided in their favor, wh...

One Direction star Liam Payne consumed cocaine, alcohol and a prescription antidepressant before falling to his death from a Buenos Aires ho...

Carbon pollution from private jets has soared in the past five years, with most of those small planes spewing more heat-trapping carbon diox...

Actress Michiko Yoshise attends the Keyakizaka illumination lighting ceremony in Roppongi Hills in Tokyo on Thursday night. Approximately 90...

The first time China faced Donald Trump in the White House, there was a trade war, a breach of protocol involving Taiwan’s former leader, an...

Democrats spent billions of dollars warning American voters that Donald Trump posed an imminent threat to democracy, that his economic polic...

The trial of a 55-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing a woman in a hotel in Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture, in September 2023 began at th...

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a televised concession speech to the nation on Wednesday after a whirlwind campaign that failed...

Aston Villa gave away an unusual penalty for handball in its Champions League game against Club Brugge on Wednesday when defender Tyrone Min...

The verdict of U.S. voters was more decisive than most pollsters and pundits had predicted. Now the world waits to see whether the election...

Snow has finally fallen on Mount Fuji, images showed Wednesday, after warm weather led to the Japanese mountain's longest-ever stint with ba...

Republicans won control of the U.S. Senate with victories in West Virginia and Ohio on Tuesday, ensuring that Donald Trump's party will cont...

Republicans took a step toward winning control of the U.S. Senate with a victory in West Virginia on Tuesday, while neither party appeared t...

Japanese superstar Shohei Ohtani had surgery on Tuesday to repair his left shoulder after it was partially dislocated in game two of the clu...

Republican Donald Trump won eight states in Tuesday's U.S. presidential election while Democrat Kamala Harris captured three states and Wash...

Elon Musk was sued in a proposed class action on Tuesday by registered voters who signed his petition to support the Constitution for a chan...

The body of a 21-year-old German university student who went missing on Oct 11 while on holiday in Wakayama Prefecture has been found off th...

Cristiano Ronaldo helped fire Al Nassr to a crushing 5-1 victory against reigning Asian champions Al Ain in the AFC Champions League Elite o...

Protesters threw flares and red paint on the City Hall building in the Serbian city of Novi Sad in rage over last week's collapse of a concr...

A broker inspects a basket of shrimp at the season's first auction of sakura shrimp, a specialty of Suruga Bay, at Yui fishing port in Shizu...

The Tokyo Stock Exchange extended its trading hours by 30 minutes from Tuesday as part of its efforts to make the bourse more attractive to...

New Zealand police are investigating an arson attack at an Auckland mosque early on Tuesday, when a fire smoldered for eight hours before it...

World number one Nelly Korda has clinched her first LPGA Player of the Year honors, the LPGA confirmed on Monday after it became mathematica...

Canadian authorities charged three people on Monday following violence at a Hindu temple which provoked angry condemnation from India and se...

Police in Tokyo have arrested a 16-year-old boy on suspicion of attempted murder after he stabbed a high school boy in the back with a kitch...