Torrential rain is falling in many areas of Japan, mainly in the country's northeast and west. A Level 4 Urgent Warning for ...

US President Donald Trump says he will remove a 10-percent tariff on Irish whiskey. He made the remark on Sunday at the ...

Iranian state-run media say a foreign ministers' meeting Tehran planned to hold with other Gulf states has been postponed.

Iceland's government says it plans to submit a bill to parliament next February to ban commercial whaling. If approved, it ...

A major US newspaper has reported that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is considering forging a new, deeper economic ...

Iran says it plans to hold a foreign ministers' meeting with other Gulf nations to brief them on its negotiations with Oman ...

A ferry carrying about 240 people in the Java Sea off Indonesia has lost contact. The country's search and rescue authorities ...

A 30-year-old time capsule has been opened in a city in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo. Yoshikawa City installed the time ...

An expert on Mars has given a lecture in central Japan to raise awareness of a Japanese project to explore one of the red ...

Chubu Electric Power Company released a report on Monday on the scandal of falsified earthquake-risk data for its Hamaoka nuclear power plant in central Japan.

Ukraine's state-run rail operator says a Russian drone struck a train near the border with Poland shortly after foreign ...

A newcomer supported by six political parties has won Sunday's gubernatorial election in the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Okinawa.