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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...

Australia has cancelled a multi-billion dollar military satellite project with Lockheed Martin, with a Department of Defense statement on Mo...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he will double funding for Britain’s border security agency and treat people-smuggling gangs like terror ne...

“Venom: The Last Dance” enjoyed another weekend at the top of the box office. The Sony release starring Tom Hardy added $26.1 million in tic...

Holding signs with slogans including “stop the plop” and “species not feces,” thousands of people marched in London on Sunday to demand a cl...

Thousands of Iranians rallied Sunday by the former U.S. embassy in Tehran to mark the 1979 hostage crisis, burning American flags and ridicu...

Police in Yokohama have arrested a 30-year-old woman in connection with the robbery and murder of a 75-year-old man at his house in Yokohama...

Japan has grounded its fleet of V-22 Osprey aircraft again after an incident last Sunday where one of the hybrid helicopter-aircraft tilted...

Captain Liam Livingstone cracked a maiden one-day international hundred to lead England to a five-wicket victory against the West Indies on...

A Georgia judge on Saturday rejected a Republican lawsuit trying to block counties from opening election offices on Saturday and Sunday to l...

People walk along a flooded street in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, on Saturday.

Kemi Badenoch won a race on Saturday to become the new leader of Britain's Conservative Party, vowing to return the once dominant party to i...

Nearly 200,000 people in western Japan were urged to evacuate on Saturday as authorities warned of landslides and floods, while the remnants...

Japan is planning to build an automated cargo transport corridor between Tokyo and Osaka, dubbed a “conveyor belt road” by the government, t...

Countries at the U.N. COP16 summit on nature on Friday approved a measure to create a permanent body for Indigenous peoples to consult on Un...

Rescue workers scoured piles of concrete and twisted metal for survivors on Friday after a roof collapsed at the entrance of a railway stati...

Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani holds his dog Decoy during the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball World Series championship parade in Los Angel...

Asian stocks were mostly lower Friday, with Japan's benchmark Nikkei losing over 2% in early trading after a sharp decline on Wall Street dr...

Japan's main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and the smaller Democratic Party for the People agreed Friday that their le...