The Japanese yen briefly surged to the lower 157 level against the U.S. dollar in New York on Friday, with Japanese government sources confirming a yen-buying, dollar-selling intervention by currency ...

A major earthquake rocked Japan's southern Kumamoto prefecture on Tuesday, knocking out power to thousands of homes, rupturing roads and injuring at least 50 people. Speaking to reporters at ‌her ...

Japan has lodged a protest with China after confirming a move to install a new structure west of the median line in the East China Sea, the Foreign Ministry said Friday. Tokyo called the move ...

Anyone who has spent time on a college campus lately has probably heard laments from faculty about their students’ reading habits, or rather nonreading habits. Such complaints are more than an ...

A National Guard officer carried out a secret second marriage to a woman he met while posted in Mongolia, using a government travel card and forged documents to facilitate the double life, U.S.

Kumamoto Prefecture said Wednesday that 14 people have been confirmed dead after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the southwestern prefecture, with nearly 8,800 people staying in evacuation centers ...

A blast at a coal mine killed at least 34 workers in southern Pakistan, the provincial disaster agency said on Friday, as rescuers searched for more missing miners. The explosion, suspected to be ...

Workers in a mall in southern Japan described being thrown to the floor or enveloped in a disorienting cloud of dust by a massive 7.1-magnitude quake that rattled the building on Tuesday. They were ...

France's soccer federation was set to announce a new head coach for the national men's squad Tuesday, with Zinedine Zidane expected to replace Didier Deschamps. Federation president Philippe Diallo ...

China said on Saturday it had imposed penalties of nearly 5.2 billion yuan ($765 million) on Trip.com Group, which operates the country’s largest online travel platform, over claims of monopolistic ...

New Zealand's top diplomat Winston Peters drew the ire of Beijing's ambassador in Wellington on Thursday after telling a lawmaker of Chinese descent to "go back to your own country". During a debate ...

Kazuma Okamoto topped Shohei Ohtani's Japanese record for home runs in a rookie MLB season as he went deep for the 23rd time Friday in the Toronto Blue Jays' 6-4 loss against the Boston Red Sox.