Voters in the US will be heading to the polls on Tuesday for an election that may tip the balance of power in Washington. The midterms are widely seen as a referendum on the administration of ...

Post offices across Japan have started selling greeting cards for the coming New Year. Many feature images of sheep, the ...

A US news website says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pressed US President Donald Trump to strike Iran ...

Authorities in Belgium and other European countries are investigating possible cyberattacks that caused temperatures inside supermarkets' freezers and refrigerators to soar.

The administration of US President Donald Trump has shown its intention to increase the federal government's involvement in Tuesday's midterm elections, saying the aim is to counter voter fraud. But ...

The Japanese government launched a new agency on Monday to oversee the country's disaster preparedness and response efforts.

The United Nations is warning that more and more farmers in Afghanistan are growing opium poppies. It says the area under ...

About 30 people have drunk matcha green tea from bowls larger than their heads in a ceremony at a Buddhist temple in Nara ...

A luxury imported wristwatch that was stolen from a store in Tokyo last week has been returned by courier. A man ran off with ...

Japan's GMO Internet Group has held its first news conference addressing the cyberattack on its foreign exchange trading ...

Rioters have looted stores in the western German city of Frankfurt as protests across the country demanded steps be taken to ...

A major subway operator in Japan's capital is planning its first across-the-board fare increase in more than three decades.