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China is home to a third of the world's smokers and tobacco-related diseases are a major cause of death in the country.

A record 14 million AC units were sold in India last year, with a ninefold increase in residential ownership forecast by midcentury.

The wheat flour version developed by Raquel Gomez and her team contains probiotics — live microorganisms found in yogurt and other fermented...

Approximately 2 billion air-conditioner units are in use worldwide, and their number is increasing as the planet warms.

As more and more people want to stay cool in a planet that is steadily heating up, energy experts point to this kind of water-based system a...

The human brain is very sensitive to heat, with higher temperatures raising the body's central thermostat and activating stress systems.

The company plans more than 10,000 job cuts globally in addition to the 9,000 cuts announced previously.

Honda will have to go it alone after a tie-up with Nissan fell through as the global auto market is roiled by U.S. tariffs and intense compe...

The average supermarket price of 5 kilograms of rice dropped for the first time since December, falling ¥19 to ¥4,214.

The results come as SoftBank plans to invest $30 billion in OpenAI while leading a $100 billion foray into building AI hardware in the U.S.

Overall net profit is expected to go down 42.9% from the previous year to ¥200 billion at Nippon Steel, 18.4% to ¥75 billion at JFE and 16.8...

The extra budget is expected to fund measures to deal with inflation and the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs.

According to his family, the boy had had behavioral problems, such as running away from home, and being taken to the police station about on...

Weather-related events, many intensified by climate change, triggered 99.5% of all of last year's disaster displacements.

The on-screen chaos of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan is the basis of a new Taiwanese television series called "Zero Day."

The Chinese leader also pledged $9.2 billion in credit toward "development" for the region — part of a broad set of initiatives aimed at dee...

Experts say the real test will come in August when higher turnout is expected.

The written account of the BOJ gathering comes as risk appetite returns to global financial markets following the cooldown in U.S.-China tar...

The latest moves reveal a White House eager to show it has momentum to pivot from a volatile first 100 days.

It will be the first visit to disaster-hit areas by the only child of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako.

Syria has struggled to implement conditions set out by Washington for relief from U.S. sanctions, while Israel has escalated air strikes and...

The Foreign Ministry said Monday that it will begin issuing residency certificates online to Japanese nationals living abroad through overse...

The freeing of the last living U.S. citizen held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip is another sign the U.S. president is starting to make u...

The heavily indebted company, one of the top 10 automakers by unit sales, is expected to log a record annual loss of around $5 billion later...

The league has expanded for the first time since 2008 by introducing the Golden State Valkyries.