When Tsuneo Watanabe died in December 2024 at the age of 98, it wasn’t just the passing of a powerful media executive — it marked the end of Japan’s old print media empire. In the 1990s, Watanabe, who ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a personal story of his own heroin addiction, spiritual awakening and recovery at a conference on drug addiction Thursday and emphasized that young ...

A judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from immediately enacting certain changes to how federal elections are run, including adding a proof-of-citizenship requirement to the federal ...

Tokyo resident Satoshi Egura turned 67 this month, and while it’s natural to spend some time on your birthday thinking back on your life so far, Egura most likely looked back even farther than most ...

Home-crowd favorite Carlos Alcaraz withdrew from the Madrid Open on Thursday because of muscle injuries, saying he didn't want to risk making things worse before the French Open. The third-ranked ...

Police in Osaka have arrested an unemployed 23-year-old woman on suspicion of assault after she cut off her 21-year-old boyfriend’s finger with a hatchet and one of his nipples with scissors.

Russia pounded Kyiv with missiles and drones overnight, killing at least 12 people in the biggest attack on the Ukrainian capital this year and drawing a rare rebuke from Donald Trump, who told ...

Fireworks exploded from the roof. Red smoke filled the air. Family members applauded as players, one by one, lifted the trophy. Yet Liverpool’s Premier League title-winning celebrations in 2020 could ...

Pakistan closed its air space for Indian airlines and rejected New Delhi's suspension of a critical water sharing treaty on Thursday in retaliation for India's response to a deadly Islamist militant ...

U.S. Marine Corps troops, who began relocating from Japan's Okinawa to Guam late last year, will begin occupying barracks at Camp Blaz in June, a spokesperson for the Guam-based facility said, as ...

Mourners stood in line for hours on Thursday to pay their final respects to Pope Francis, whose body is lying in state in St. Peter's Basilica ahead of his funeral on Saturday. Huge queues snaked ...

Four automobile mechanic trainees died after their car crashed into a water gate on a river in central Japan on Thursday, according to local police. The police said they are looking into what happened ...