Mexican authorities said on Sunday that at least ‌13 people were killed after an Interoceanic Train derailed in the southern state of Oaxaca. The Mexican Navy said ⁠the train, which derailed near the ...

Nationalist Prime Minister Albin Kurti’s party won more than half of the votes in Sunday's election, opening the way to create a new government after a year-long political deadlock that has paralyzed ...

Japan's cabinet has endorsed a basic policy for the establishment of a disaster management agency next November, stating the agency will oversee the response to disasters in the quake-prone country ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. The Japanese government has decided to move up a planned overhaul of the pay structure for Self-Defense Forces personnel to fiscal 2027, a year earlier than scheduled, ...

Nick Kyrgios won the latest version of the “Battle of the Sexes” in tennis, beating top-ranked women’s player Aryna Sabalenka 6-3, 6-3 in an exhibition match that represented light entertainment ...

Police in Hofu City, Yamagata Prefecture, have arrested a 31-year-old unemployed man with no fixed address on suspicion of threatening a convenience store clerk with a knife and stealing earphones and ...

Graphite mines in the United States largely closed down seven decades ago. Mining the ubiquitous mineral found in everything from nuclear reactors to pencils seemed to make little sense when it could ...

Brigitte Bardot felt each pop of the flashbulb like the impact of a high-powered rifle bullet. And so it was, she said, that years of implacable hounding by the world’s paparazzi turned a woman ...

Iconic Japanese cars from the 1980s and 1990s, many of which have cult followings at home and abroad, were driven through the grounds of the Toyota Automobile Museum in Aichi Prefecture late last ...

The year-end plunge in cryptocurrencies has rattled companies that had bet heavily on bitcoin, sending share prices tumbling and reviving fears of a bubble. Below AFP explains what happens to these ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday, hoping to forge a plan to end the war in Ukraine, but the American leader's call with Russian President Vladimir ...

When Dickson Ngome first leased his farm at Lake Naivasha in Kenya’s Rift Valley in 2008, it was over 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from shore. The farm was on 1.5 acres (0.6 hectares) of fertile land ...