Police said Monday they are questioning a man in his 30s following a stabbing of a woman and an event staffer working for a Japanese female idol group HKT48 from the southwestern city of Fukuoka. The ...

The Japanese word gamaguchi translates literally into English as “frog mouth,” but the language didn’t really need a single, specialized vocabulary word for discussing that part of amphibian anatomy.

We all have certain gaps in our knowledge that are widely known to others. Everyone has their blind spots, and we can only hope they don’t emerge in embarrassing or damaging situations… or both, as ...

Police in Suzuka, Mie Prefecture, have arrested a 40-year-old Brazilian woman on suspicion of assaulting a 54-year-old taxi driver after she refused to pay the fare. According to police, the incident ...

Two gunmen who attacked a Jewish celebration in Sydney's Bondi Beach that killed 15 people were a father and son, police said on Monday, as Australia mourned victims of its ‌worst gun violence in ...

Jose Antonio Kast, the candidate of the far-right Republican Party that he founded, looks ‌set to be the next president of Chile after taking a commanding lead against leftist Jeannette Jara in ...

Chinese demand for foreign luxury cars is waning as customers opt for more affordable Chinese brand models, often sold at big discounts, catering to their taste for fancy electronics and comfort. That ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy offered to drop Ukraine's aspirations to join the NATO military alliance as he held hours of talks with U.S. envoys in Berlin on Sunday to end the war with Russia, with ...

Ice blocks drift past Tristen Pattee’s boat as he scans the banks of Northwest Alaska’s Kobuk River for caribou. His great uncle Ernest steadies a rifle on his lap. It’s the last day of September, and ...

A man who carried out an attack in Syria that killed three U.S. citizens had joined Syria’s internal security forces as a base security guard two months earlier and was recently reassigned amid ...

Major cities including Berlin, London and New York stepped up security around Hanukkah events on Sunday following the attack on a Jewish holiday celebration ‌at Sydney's Bondi Beach. Berlin police ...

Fake news. Fake world. Everything’s fake, everyone’s fake, even some warnings against fakes are fake – maybe this one. Probably not, since it will offer you nothing and ask for nothing. Still, you ...