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Social media companies could be fined more than U.S.$30 million if they fail to keep children off their platforms, under new laws tabled bef...

Major League Baseball scrapped plans to play regular-season games next year in Mexico City and San Juan, Puerto Rico.The season opens on Ma...

Owners of Aibo, Sony's robotic dog pets, attend a ritual for their health, called Shichi-Go-San, which is usually held for praying for child...

Japan racked up a trade deficit in October for a fourth straight month as a weak yen and rising energy prices kept import costs high.The tr...

The U.S. embassy in Kyiv has received information of a potential significant air attack on Wednesday and will be closed, the U.S. Department...

A woman and a baby were shot to death while inside a car in Hartford, Connecticut, on Tuesday after another vehicle pulled up alongside them...

Germany rounded off their Nations League group stage campaign with a 1-1 draw in Hungary after a Dominik Szoboszlai penalty in the 99th minu...

A giant Christmas tree is lit up at the Universal Studios Japan (USJ) amusement park in Osaka on Tuesday night.

A vehicle plowed into students and pedestrians outside a primary school in China's Hunan province on Tuesday morning and several people were...

Hong Kong's High Court on Tuesday sentenced 45 pro-democracy activists to jail terms of up to 10 years in a landmark national security trial...

The Associated Press said Monday that it would begin offering buyouts and lay off selected employees, part of a plan to reduce the news outl...

The U.S. will urge a judge to make Google-parent company Alphabet sell its widely used Chrome browser in a major antitrust crackdown on the...

World number two Iga Swiatek battled back from a set down against Jasmine Paolini to take Poland's Billie Jean King Cup semi-final clash wit...

United Nations climate talks resumed Monday with negotiators urged to make progress on a stalled-out deal that could see developing countrie...

Shares started out the week mixed in Asia after U.S. stocks fell to their worst loss since Election Day.U.S. futures were higher, with the...

Just a week after winning a majority of the vote in several of the nation’s largest Arab-majority cities, President-elect Donald Trump has f...

Australia's Senate on Monday censured an Indigenous woman parliamentarian over her protest against King Charles during his visit to the parl...

New Orleans police were investigating after two people were killed and nine others were wounded in two separate shootings Sunday along a par...

Australian former radio show host Alan Jones has been arrested by police over allegations he indecently assaulted, groped or inappropriately...

Thousands of protesters gathered in Slovakia’s capital on Sunday, the 35th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution that brought an end to decad...

Britain said on Sunday it had confirmed a strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus in commercial poultry at premises near the town of St Ives in so...

People dressed as Santa Claus participate in a parade during a charity event through the Shibuya district of Tokyo on Sunday.

Three people died when a pleasure boat and a tugboat collided in the Seto Inland Sea in western Japan on Sunday morning, the coast guard sai...

Victoria Kjær Theilvig of Denmark has been crowned Miss Universe.Kjaer, an animal protection advocate who works in the diamond selling busi...

A powerful typhoon wrecked houses, caused towering tidal surges and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee to emergency shelters as...