Police in Hidaka, Hokkaido, have arrested a 49-year-old man on suspicion of abandoning the body of a woman in hers 20s behind the wall at a bar he manages. Police said Toshihiko Matsukura, who was ...

Nationwide protests challenging Iran’s theocracy saw protesters flood the streets in the country’s capital and its second-largest city into Sunday, crossing the two-week mark as violence surrounding ...

Authorities have charged a 24-year-old man with murder after six people — including a child — were killed in a series of ...

Two men in their 80s died in snow-related accidents on Saturday in Akita Prefecture. Akita prefectural police said the wife of 82-year-old Kunio Takahashi called 119 at around 11:20 a.m. and said that ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi may call an early general election, the head of her party's coalition partner said on Sunday, after media reported she was considering a February vote. It would ...

Labor economics professor Kaoru Kanai at Saitama University. Legislation aimed at expanding the use of pre-marriage family ...

Human remains were found in Australia's southeast where bushfires raging for days have razed buildings, cut power ‌to thousands of homes and burned swathes of bushland, police said on Sunday. The ...

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on Saturday urged demonstrators protesting the fatal shooting of a motorist by a U.S. immigration agent to stay peaceful, saying that any unlawful actions would play into ...

Bob Weir, guitarist, singer and founding member of the Grateful Dead, has died at age 78. Weir's death was announced Saturday in a statement on his Instagram page. “It is with profound sadness that we ...

The U.S. has launched another round of retaliatory strikes against the Islamic State in Syria following last month’s ambush that killed two U.S. soldiers and one American civilian interpreter in the ...

The FA Cup delivered another fairytale result on Saturday when sixth-tier Macclesfield — managed by Wayne Rooney's brother — knocked out titleholder Crystal Palace in one of the competition's greatest ...

A Ukrainian drone strike sparked a fire at an oil depot in Russia’s southern Volgograd region, officials said Saturday, after Russia launched a powerful hypersonic missile along with drones and other ...