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A seaplane crashed during takeoff from an Australian tourist island, killing three people including Swiss and Danish tourists and injuring t...

Newcastle took a giant stride towards the League Cup final as goals from Alexander Isak and Anthony Gordon earned a 2-0 semi-final, first le...

Outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken embraces Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi at Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba...

Sony Group Corp said its joint venture with Honda Motor Co has started accepting preorders in the United States for its new Afeela brand ele...

A powerful earthquake in China's remote Tibet region killed at least 32 people and collapsed "many buildings" on Tuesday, state media report...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Japan on Tuesday for talks expected to address North Korean missile launches, but President Jo...

Home appliances that do chores, cars that know your favorite cafe, and robot pets aiming to please are among artficial intelligence-infused...

A 3-year-old boy died on Monday, the fourth person to succumb to injuries from a massive explosion of fireworks at a home in Honolulu on New...

The Louisiana Department of Health said on Monday that a U.S. patient hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu had died, the country's first death fr...

Asian stocks are mixed after Wall Street snapped out of a spell of holiday season blues, with markets in Tokyo and China declining. Japan’s...

China's top diplomat began his annual New Year tour of Africa on Sunday, maintaining a 35-year-long tradition, to quietly advance Beijing's...

North Korea fired a ballistic missile out to sea off its east coast on Monday, coinciding with a visit by U.S Secretary of State Antony Blin...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is likely to announce his resignation this week as he faces mounting dissent within his Liberal Party...

Hideki Matsuyama got the new season off to a smashing start Sunday when he broke the PGA Tour record to par for 72 holes by closing with an…

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby will end his duties on Monday after quitting amid an abuse cover-up scandal, but his interim successor...

Some 102 men were executed by the Congolese government in the past week, and 70 more are set to be executed, the country's minister of justi...

Participants show their writings during a New Year calligraphy contest at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo on Sunday.

Naomi Osaka's Australian Open campaign has taken on an element of doubt after the four-time Grand Slam champion and former No. 1 suffered an...

Australia clinched a knife-edge fifth test against India in Sydney by six wickets to seal a riveting series 3-1 Sunday and book their place...

Hideki Matsuyama and Collin Morikawa put on a stripe show Saturday at Kapalua, each of them posting an 11-under 62 at vulnerable Kapalua tha...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday that Russian and North Korean forces suffered heavy losses in fighting in Russia's...

The U-turn rush of people who spent the New Year holidays in their hometowns or overseas began on Saturday with bullet trains, airports and...

The New York judge presiding over President-elect Donald Trump's hush money case on Friday set sentencing for 10 days before his January 20...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to expand the state’s involuntary commitment laws to allow hospitals to compel more mentally ill people int...

South Korean investigators spent hours waiting outside the official residence of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol as the presidential secur...