Asian markets advanced Friday after China’s Commerce Ministry said Beijing is evaluating overtures from the U.S. regarding President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Futures and oil prices advanced. Hong ...

The Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and opposition leader Peter Dutton are each claiming to be the underdog ahead of general elections on Saturday. Albanese, who leads the center-left Labor ...

Japan's average unemployment rate in fiscal 2024 fell 0.1 percentage point from a year earlier to 2.5 percent, marking the first improvement in two years, amid a labor shortage, government data showed ...

The India and Brunei pavilions for the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka opened Thursday, leaving Nepal as the only overseas participant with an unopened pavilion 18 days into the global event. The ...

Nigel Farage's right-wing Reform UK party made early gains in local English election results on Friday and won a parliamentary by-election by the smallest ever margin in the first major electoral test ...

With their sleek curves and chrome grilles, the classic American cars on sale at Yosuke Fukuda's yard ooze Californian cool but on Japanese roads new U.S. vehicles are a rare sight -- much to ...

Japanese rescuers have recovered the body of a truck driver who was swallowed by a huge sinkhole in Saitama Prefecture three months ago, an official said on Friday. A road in the city of Yashio caved ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said on Thursday attacks by Republican President Donald Trump and his allies on judges were "not random" and seemed "designed to intimidate the ...

Few countries have seasonal swings quite so dramatic as Japan’s, where midwinter can be mercilessly cold and midsummer brutally hot. Getting from one extreme to the other, means, of course, that Japan ...

The number of sexual assaults reported across the U.S. military dipped by nearly 4% last year, fueled by a significant drop in the Army, according to a new Pentagon report. It was the second year in a ...

Harvey Weinstein ’s lawyers got their turn Thursday to question a woman who alleges the one-time Hollywood heavyweight held her down on a bed and forced oral sex on her nearly two decades ago. Miriam ...

American singer Cyndi Lauper, speaking to Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike after wrapping up her 15th visit to Japan for solo performances.