The United States has informed the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, that it will ...

We introduce Kazuo ISHIGURO's "A Pale View of Hills" and other Japanese films screened at the Cannes Film Festival, as well ...

Australia's "worst-ever" wildfires in 2019 had a devastating impact on endangered species, including koalas. We examine the ...

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons says its executive director will attend ceremonies in Hiroshima and ...

Twenty-eight countries, including Japan, as well as the European Union, have issued a joint statement calling for an ...

Investigators say a mobile battery that caught fire on a JR Yamanote Line train in Tokyo on Sunday had been subject to a ...

Scorching heat gripped Japan with temperatures exceeding 38 degrees Celsius in wide areas from western to northern areas on ...

A Bangladeshi air force jet crashed into a college campus on Monday in the capital Dhaka. At least 27 people are dead.

North Korean media say the country has begun building its third new-class destroyer, reportedly capable of carrying ballistic ...

The operator of a nuclear power plant in central Japan says it will resume onsite surveys toward constructing a ...

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru has pledged to stay in office after his ruling coalition lost its majority in the ...

Russia launched a heavy assault on Ukraine with missiles and drones from Sunday night into Monday morning. Officials in Kyiv ...