More than 300 schoolchildren and 12 teachers were abducted by gunmen during an attack on St. Mary’s School, a Catholic institution, in north-central Nigeria’s Niger state, the Christian Association of ...

China has taken its widening spat with Japan to the United Nations, accusing Tokyo of threatening "an armed intervention" over Taiwan and vowing to defend itself in its strongest language yet in the ...

A 27-year-old man has been referred to prosecutors on suspicion of copying an image created by another person via specific prompts given to an artificial intelligence model, local police said. While ...

The outcome of Brazil's COP30 climate summit was left hanging in the balance, with the European Union refusing to accept a draft deal it said would fail to advance global efforts to curb greenhouse ...

A Thai national was confirmed dead Friday after suffering head injuries while working with an elephant at a zoo in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, police said. Emergency services in the city rushed to ...

Shiina Ito has had fewer Chinese customers at her Tokyo jewelry shop since Beijing issued a travel warning in the wake of a diplomatic spat, but she said she was not concerned. A souring of ...

Sanae Takaichi made history by becoming Japan's first female prime minister in October. She must now decide whether she'll break another barrier: the taboo barring women from the sumo ring. The winner ...

The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday warned all pilots to “exercise caution” when flying in the airspace over Venezuela “due to the worsening security situation and heightened military ...

Office workers do exercise on horizontal bars at Hibiya Park in Tokyo.

Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a loyal supporter-turned-critic of President Donald Trump who faced his political retribution if she sought reelection, said Friday she is resigning from ...

No one has paid a higher cost than Epstein's victims, who number more than 1,000, according to the Justice Department. The world will soon have more information. President Donald Trump, friends with ...

Months of sniping melted away Friday as New York's incoming leftist mayor Zohran Mamdani and President Donald Trump were all smiles at a White House meeting -- promising to set aside their feud and ...