Four people died after 14 people were shot at a family gathering in Stockton in northern California on Saturday night, police said. The shooting took place at a child's birthday party, Stockton's Vice ...

The United Nations' International Civil Aviation Organization has elected Toshiyuki Onuma, Japan's ambassador to the ICAO, as its council's next president, making him the first Japanese to assume the ...

Anger over a deadly blaze at a Hong Kong high-rise apartment complex simmered on Sunday as Beijing warned against attempts to use the disaster to disrupt the city, while people across the financial ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela should be considered "closed in its entirety," but gave no further details, stirring anxiety and confusion in ...

There is no backup stadium if the main ice hockey arena for the Milan Cortina Winter Games is not ready on time. Construction on the arena that is set to welcome NHL players back to the Olympics for ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday that a delegation headed by security council secretary Rustem Umerov was on its way to the United States to continue talks on an agreement to ...

The number of people confirmed killed in Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip has passed the 70,000 mark, the enclave's health ministry said on Saturday. A total of 301 people have been added to the ...

Bear bells are displayed for sale at a souvenir shop at Shirakawa-go, a popular tourist spot and one of Japan's UNESCO World Heritage sites, in Shirakawa village, Gifu Prefecture.

Despite wider economic uncertainty hovering above this year's holiday season, shoppers turned out in big numbers for Black Friday — spending billions of dollars both in stores and online. Adobe ...

Japan has often prided itself on its orderly, low-crime society, but cracks in that image are widening amid rising car thefts and home intrusions fueled by export markets and public complacency. At a ...

Ebooks have been popular for decades and audiobooks are increasingly so. But physical books are still the decided favorite: a survey of Australian publishers after last Christmas reported print books ...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese married his girlfriend Jodie Haydon on Saturday, becoming the country's first leader to tie the knot while in office. A beaming Albanese, 62, wed the ...