A central Japan high court has acquitted a man convicted of murdering a teenage girl in 1986. Maekawa Shoshi completed his ...

The British and German leaders have concluded a pact aimed at boosting their security, diplomacy and other collaboration in ...

The White House says US President Donald Trump has received a medical checkup, and that he has venous insufficiency, but ...

Finance ministers and central-bank governors from the Group of 20 economies have ended their first day of talks in South ...

Japanese weather officials say the rainy season is likely to be over across wide regions of central, eastern and northeastern ...

More than 60 people have been killed in a fire that tore through a shopping mall in eastern Iraq. The blaze broke out at the ...

Local officials have shot dead a bear in a northern Japanese town where a man was killed in a bear attack last week. Police ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Syrian leaders they have crossed his red lines. He said he will not let ...

The governor of Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture has visited a former nuclear testing site and a museum conveying the history of ...

Ukraine's former economy minister and the key negotiator in the mineral deal with the US, Yulia Svyrydenko, has become the ...

A Japanese venture firm's recent moon landing attempt ended in failure, but the mission is continuing undaunted. Behind the scenes, preparations for further launches are already in motion. Now, ...

What would you say to your family and friends in a letter to be delivered after your death? "Last letters" are becoming increasingly common, with the practice even spreading among young people. Some ...