A powerful quake rattled northern Japan Sunday evening, followed by several more temblors, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. A tsunami advisory was issued. The earthquake, with a ...

Niigata Prefecture announced on Sunday that a suspected case of highly pathogenic avian influenza at a poultry farm in Tainai City had been confirmed positive after genetic testing. According to ...

Police in Ikeda City, Osaka Prefecture, have arrested a 29-year-old unemployed woman on suspicion of fatally assaulting her two-year-old daughter at their apartment. According to police, Reina Izumi ...

The Philippines evacuated over 100,000 residents across its eastern and northern regions as Fung-wong intensified on Sunday into a super typhoon ahead of its expected arrival later in the day, ...

Japan issued a tsunami advisory for Iwate Prefecture in the north of the country on Sunday, public broadcaster NHK said, asking residents to stay away from coastal areas. A tsunami was observed 70 km ...

Takashi Tachibana, the leader of a Japanese political party known for his controversial remarks, was arrested Sunday on suspicion of defaming a critic of a candidate he backed in the Hyogo ...

The longest U.S. government shutdown on record is doing more than grind activities to a halt at home; an ocean away in Europe, local workers at U.S. military bases have started to feel the pain.

The Trump administration's legal efforts to fight having to fully fund food stamps for millions of vulnerable Americans is creating an opening for Democrats eager to use the longest government ...

The White House said Saturday it would be “beautiful” to name the new stadium for Washington's NFL team after President Donald Trump following an ESPN report that an intermediary has told the ...

More than 69,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war so far, Gaza health officials said Saturday, as both sides completed the latest exchange of bodies under the terms of the tenuous ...

Japanese golfers Nasa Hataoka and Yuna Araki sat atop the leaderboard after Saturday's third round of the LPGA's Toto Japan Classic. Hataoka has shared the lead in each of the first three rounds, with ...

World champion South Africa overcame a red card and a halftime deficit to beat France 32-17 and hand Les Tricolores yet another stinging defeat. The sides met for the first time since South Africa ...