The 2026 World Cup draw next week will reward the four highest-ranked teams — Spain, Argentina, France and England — who will be placed in separate sections of a new tennis-style seeded tournament ...

A 37-year-old woman has been arrested for attempting to set fire to the home of a 91-year-old man in Betsukai town, Hokkaido, where she worked as a caregiver. Police said Tomoyo Yoshida, a visiting ...

President Rodrigo Paz of Bolivia said Tuesday he planned to scrap a ream of taxes, in one of his first moves since becoming the nation's first conservative leader in nearly two decades on a bid to ...

As the Trump administration carries out what many observers say are illegal military strikes against vessels in the Caribbean allegedly smuggling drugs, six Democratic members of Congress issued a ...

The Paris prosecutor announced four more arrests Tuesday in connection with the stunning heist at the Louvre Museum in October by a gang that made off with $102 million worth of jewels. The two men ...

Hirohito Suzuki, an associate professor of social sciences at Kobe Gakuin University, who is an expert on trends in youth culture. As the number of bookstores in Japan is steadily declining, ...

In the quiet area of Naguri, in Okumusashi, stands Mount Hakuun Torii Kannon. This temple complex in Saitama Prefecture covers about 30 hectares. Moreover, it is also one of the top 100 official ...

Police in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, have arrested a 22-year-old woman on suspicion of attempted murder after she allegedly stabbed a 37-year-old male acquaintance in the abdomen with a knife.

Carlos Alcaraz recently wrapped up his 2025 official schedule with the ATP's year-end No. 1 ranking, tour-highs of 71 match wins and eight trophies and a pair of Grand Slam titles that lifted his ...

Japan has dismissed a Chinese letter to the United Nations accusing Tokyo of threatening armed intervention over Taiwan as "inconsistent with the facts and unsubstantiated". Japan's U.N. ambassador, ...

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro started on Tuesday to serve his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt designed to keep him in office after losing the 2022 presidential elections ...

The U.S. flu season is starting slowly, and it's unclear if it will be as bad as last winter's, but some health experts are worried as U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data posted shows ...