Rescue teams in Nepal are still racing to find survivors more than a week after massive flash floods along the border with ...

The new Ig Nobel Prize winners were announced at a ceremony in Zurich, Switzerland, on Thursday. The award recognizes ...

New York is known for its famous landmarks, but behind many of them are stories of women whose names have largely been ...

Japan's Emperor Emeritus Akihito will turn 93 years old this year with no major health issues. NHK has learned that the ...

Russia held a ceremony in its Far East region on Thursday to mark the former Soviet Union's victory over Japan during World ...

A Nepali official reportedly says he thinks dozens of workers trapped in a hydropower plant may still be alive more than a ...

Sonoda Aya of Doctors Without Borders gives an inside perspective on the fight against the Ebola outbreak gripping the ...

Shirakawa Hideki, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000 for his ground-breaking discovery and development of plastics ...

Rescue efforts are continuing in central Nepal after the recent devastating flood. Among the missing are hundreds of workers ...

A cross-party group of Japanese Diet members for Japan-China friendship is planning to visit China this month to help mend ...

A small fleet of boats in western Japan has just set sail in search of blowfish -- the first fishing of the season. The ...

A museum co-founded by American filmmaker and "Star Wars" creator George Lucas and his wife is set to open its doors to the ...