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A 30-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of attempted on Monday following stabbings in Fukuoka which left a woman and an event staffer working for Japanese
Jose Antonio Kast won Chile's presidential election on Sunday, leveraging voter fears over rising crime and migration to steer the country in its sharpest
Two gunmen who attacked a Jewish celebration in Sydney's Bondi Beach that killed 15 people were a father and son, police said on Monday, as Australia mourned
The Japanese word gamaguchi translates literally into English as “frog mouth,” but the language didn’t really need a single, specialized vocabulary word
“Zootopia 2” regained the No. 1 spot at the domestic box office with $26.3 million in its third weekend of release, according to studio estimates Sunday,
Police in Suzuka, Mie Prefecture, have arrested a 40-year-old Brazilian woman on suspicion of assaulting a 54-year-old taxi driver after she refused to
Chinese demand for foreign luxury cars is waning as customers opt for more affordable Chinese brand models, often sold at big discounts, catering to their
Haruki Murakami was in town last week to hear his words set to music and his praises literally sung.
The 76-year-old Tokyo resident and perennial Nobel
The growing accessibility of online fund-raising tools, including crowdfunding, has led Japanese political parties to increasingly turn to internet-based
In a light-filled workshop in eastern China, a robotic arm moved a partially assembled autonomous vehicle as workers calibrated its cameras, typical of
Soccer icon Lionel Messi's second day in India passed smoothly Sunday, after a chaotic opening to his three-day tour, as the World Cup winner kicked balls
Aiden Markram helped South Africa avoid another unwanted batting record but couldn't prevent India winning a lopsided third Twenty20 match by seven wickets
New Zealand's Alice Robinson stole the limelight in the women's World Cup super-G in St Moritz on Sunday as Lindsey Vonn placed fourth while Mikaela Shiffrin
Hong Kong's oldest pro-democracy party has decided to disband, the group announced Sunday, after its members formally voted to dissolve the organisation
Thailand's military said it was considering blocking fuel exports to Cambodia, as fighting between the two countries spread to coastal areas of a disputed
A man who carried out an attack in Syria that killed three U.S. citizens had joined Syria’s internal security forces as a base security guard two months
Authorities detained a "person of interest" who was found in a Rhode Island hotel after the Brown University shooting that left two students dead and nine
In the past year, tens of thousands hostile to immigrants marched through London chanting “send them home!” A British lawmaker complained of seeing too