Kumamoto Prefectural Police have sent papers to prosecutors on two police officers over alleged sex crimes. One case involves a police officer in his 30s who has been arrested on suspicion of ...

Shakira has canceled a concert in Colombia, among dozens of dates on her world tour, due to a damaged stage roof that posed ...

Lady Gaga has confirmed that she will perform a free concert on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach on May 3. “I’ve been dying to come perform for you for years and was heartbroken when I had to cancel ...

On a snowy prairie in Minnesota stands a monastery like no other. A concrete trapezoid banner encasing a bell tower looms over a giant, beehive-shaped front window composed of hundreds of gently ...

Japan's top court has denied a long-term residency visa to an American man who married his same-sex Japanese partner in the United States. The Supreme Court upheld the Tokyo High Court's 2023 ruling ...

Police in Sapporo have arrested a 43-year-old man on suspicion of threatening an employee at a food court with a gun-shaped lighter after the employee asked the man, who was smoking in a non-smoking ...

The 20th edition of an annual ceremony to assert Japan's claim over a group of South Korea-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan was held Saturday, in a long-standing sticking point in bilateral ties.

Japan's ruling coalition and a small opposition party have reached an agreement among their policy chiefs, sorting out their differences on free high school education and social security reforms, in a ...

Woven City near Mount Fuji is where Japanese automaker Toyota plans to test everyday living with robotics, artificial intelligence and autonomous zero-emissions transportation. Daisuke Toyoda, an ...

Chinese tech companies shrugged off foreign scrutiny of upstart chatbot maker DeepSeek, telling AFP on Friday they were ...

In his annual letter to shareholders Saturday, Warren Buffett celebrated the successes of Berkshire Hathaway's companies last ...

One of China's leading electric vehicle makers XPeng plans to double the number of countries in which the company operates by the end of this year, its CEO said Saturday. Founded in 2014, XPeng is one ...