A man was arrested Thursday for allegedly stabbing two men visiting his Tokyo apartment for forced eviction proceedings, police said. The man, believed to be in his 40s, was arrested several hundred ...

The collapse of a highway construction crane killed two people near Bangkok on Thursday, with a Thai minister saying the building firm was also involved in a crane failure the day before that left 32 ...

Japan's main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and Komeito, formerly a longtime ruling coalition partner, agreed on Thursday to form a new party ahead of a looming snap general ...

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi plans to dissolve the Diet's lower house next week, triggering a national election to decide all 465 seats in her first major election test ‌since taking office ...

Relatives of victims of a fatal bus crash on Thursday marked the 10th anniversary of the accident that claimed the lives of 13 passengers and two drivers in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, on Jan 15, ...

Japan will bid to host the Rugby World Cup again in 2035, more than 15 years after becoming the first Asian country to stage the event. Japan Rugby Football Union president Masato Tsuchida said an ...

Tougher hate speech and gun control laws proposed by Australia's center-left Labor government in the aftermath of the Bondi Beach mass ‌shooting were criticized by conservative opposition parties on ...

The Detroit Auto Show returns this week, offering an opportunity to take a peek at the cars of today and tomorrow and also go for a spin. The annual car-fest at a Detroit convention hall features a ...

FIFA said Wednesday it has received more than 500 million ticket requests for this year's World Cup. Soccer's organizing body said outside the host United States, Mexico and Canada, the most requests ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would cut off federal funding next month for any state that includes sanctuary cities, expanding his attacks on mostly Democratic-run cities following ...

Police in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, have arrested a 41-year-old man on suspicion of breaking into the home of a woman in her 60s on Dec 24, installing a video camera in her bedroom and filming her in ...

Beneath an eight-lane expressway, Nigerian men stand waist-deep in the Lagos Lagoon, lowering buckets into murky water. Each load brings up sand, reshaping the coastline of Africa’s largest city and ...