Police in Kure City, Hiroshima Prefecture, have arrested a 42-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder after he hit a woman in her 40s on the head multiple times with a hammer-like object in his ...

A woman in her 40s was stabbed by a man in Tokyo's Akasaka district on Sunday, police said, adding that the suspected attacker fled the scene. Around 10:25 a.m., police received an emergency call ...

A 54-year-old man died after getting into difficulty while diving off the coast of Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, on Saturday. According to police, a diving instructor at the scene called 119 at ...

A volcano on Sakurajima in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, erupted early Sunday morning, sending a plume of ash and smoke up to 4,400 meters into the atmosphere, the weather agency said. The ...

A China Coast Guard ship formation passed through the waters of the Senkaku Islands on Sunday on a "rights enforcement patrol", the China Coast Guard said in a statement, as Beijing ramps up tensions ...

Accused of being biased by some, defended as a champion of impartiality by others, the BBC is once again the subject of a thorny debate about the role of a publicly funded broadcaster in an ...

In justifying American military strikes on boats suspected of smuggling drugs, President Donald Trump has asserted that the longtime U.S. strategy of interdicting such vessels at sea has been a major ...

Just in time for the busy holiday travel season, iPhone users can now add their passport details to their Apple digital wallets. The company has unveiled its new “Digital ID” system for users to add ...

Pope Leo XIV welcomed Spike Lee, Cate Blanchett, Greta Gerwig and dozens of other Hollywood luminaries to a special Vatican audience Saturday celebrating cinema and its ability to inspire and unite.

Members of the Japanese imperial family, from left, Princess Kako, Crown Prince Fumihito Akishino, Crown Princess Kiko and Prince Hisahito attend the opening ceremony for the Tokyo Deaflympics at the ...

When President Donald Trump addressed Congress earlier this year, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was there holding an American flag and wearing a red baseball cap that said “Trump was right about ...

The Labor Department will release its numbers on September hiring and unemployment next Thursday, a month and a half late, marking the beginning of the end of a data drought caused by the 43-day ...