Police in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, are questioning a man in his 80s after three elementary school students playing in a park were beaten by a man with a wooden stick on Monday. According to ...

The Gates Foundation will give $912 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, philanthropist Bill Gates announced on Monday as he urged governments to reverse global health ...

After deflecting the U.S. Justice Department's attack on its illegal monopoly in online search, Google is facing another attempt to dismantle its internet empire in a trial focused on its abusive ...

As the Gaza war rages on, France recognized Palestinian statehood on Monday at the start of a high-profile meeting at the United Nations aimed at galvanizing support for a two-state solution to the ...

This year has seen 69 bear attacks across Japan, nearing the 2023 all-time high of 71. Five people also tragically lost their lives in encounters with bears that are increasingly encroaching on rural ...

North Korean laborers dispatched to Russia's Far East for temporary work have enlisted with the Russian military, with hundreds deployed to the country's western Kursk region since around July, an ...

At least 10 of the 16 people who died as the result of torrential rain in central Japan last September were believed to have been caught up in flooding or landslides before the weather agency raised ...