A Chinese man who injured a Japanese mother and her child and killed a Chinese bus attendant trying to protect them in a knife attack near Shanghai last June has been sentenced to death, according to ...

President Donald Trump has revoked government security protection for former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his top aide, Brian Hook, who have faced threats from Iran since they took hard-line ...

California Republicans are pushing back against suggestions by President Donald Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans that federal disaster aid for victims of wildfires that ravaged ...

Police in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, have arrested a 34-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder after he allegedly pushed a 25-year-old female acquaintance from the seventh floor of a building in ...

Savvy Tokyo's resident "Love in Japan" columnist, Hilary Keyes, answers anonymous questions from readers on everything from dating in Japan to women's health issues. Hi, Hilary—Why Won’t He Let Me ...

Takayoshi Shiranaga, an officer at Tochigi Women’s Prison, saying that the pervasive problem of loneliness on the outside is so acute for some elderly women prisoners that they’d prefer to stay ...

A solitary sunfish at an aquarium in southwestern Japan lost its appetite, began banging into the side of the fishtank and appeared unwell days after the facility closed last month for renovations. As ...

George Clinton, The Doobie Brothers, Ashley Gorley, Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins, The Beach Boys' Mike Love and Tony Macaulay make up the 2025 Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees — an inspiring mix of ...

Barbra Streisand, Kate McKinnon and Elton John are among the nominees for the 30th annual Audie Awards, presented by the Audio Publishers Association. Streisand's self-narrated “My Name Is Barbra” is ...

The Chinese government plans to ensure that share prices will rise by ordering pensions and mutual funds to invest more in domestic stocks, to help jolt the markets out of the doldrums. Officials told ...

Italy’s highest court on Thursday confirmed a slander conviction against U.S. defendant Amanda Knox for accusing an innocent man in her British flatmate’s 2007 murder, a sensational case that ...

For generations, Gatorade and similar electrolyte beverages have been helpful tools for athletes seeking a competitive edge. In 1965, Dr Robert Cade and a team of scientists at the University of ...