With about 28 times the warming effect of CO2, methane lies in an ice-like form beneath the seabed. Rising sea temperatures ...

Hundreds of people are feared dead after two boats carrying more than 500 people, mostly Rohingya Muslim refugees, appear to ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has faced protests since the dismissal of Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov. Now, he ...

Japan's Diet has passed a bill to penalize the act of damaging the country's national flag. The bill was approved at the ...

Massive wildfires raging across east-central Canada are affecting a wide area, including New York, where authorities are ...

Hostilities continued to escalate between the United States and Iran on Thursday. US Central Command says it has launched new ...

Britain's ruling Labour Party closed out the nomination process for a new leader on Thursday. Andy Burnham is now set to ...

Bingata, the Okinawan art of fabric dyeing, has been prized since the days of the Ryukyu Kingdom (15th-19th century). However ...

Tonegawa Susumu, the first Japanese recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, died on July 11 at the age of 86.

NHK WORLD-JAPAN presents a sumo highlights program for fans around the globe. Today the show features all top-division bouts ...

NHK WORLD-JAPAN presents a sumo highlights program for fans around the globe. Today the show features all top-division bouts ...

Police in Chiba Prefecture, neighboring Tokyo, arrested on Wednesday a former hospital nurse on suspicion of killing a patient by putting him on an intravenous drip contaminated with excrement.