Approval for Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s government rose for the first time this year, a new poll showed ...

A new bell has been installed in Urakami Cathedral’s twin bell towers, with the previous one having been destroyed in the ...

Two Chinese Navy aircraft carriers deployed to the Pacific Ocean around Japan and other areas in June had been conducting ...

A Japanese high court branch Friday acquitted a 60-year-old man in a high-profile retrial over the 1986 murder of a ...

The mural in Roubaix is part of an urban street culture festival backed by the town. Roubaix is one of the poorest towns in ...

Foreign nationals have become a topic of contention in the House of Councillors election campaign, fanned by public concerns ...

A vital quake-damaged road including a tunnel reopened on Thursday after being closed for 18 months following the Noto ...

Chinese customs authorities have granted permission for the import of 449 fisheries items from Japan, such as scallops, tuna ...

Azuma Kagami Yuki no Midare (“Touken Ranbu: Disturbance in Snow as Described in Azuma Kagami”), a kabuki adaptation of the ...

Connie Francis, the wholesome pop star of the 1950s and ‘60s whose hits included “Pretty Little Baby” and “Who’s Sorry Now?” ...

An Israeli shell slammed into the compound of the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing three people ...

SAPPORO — A brown bear was killed by hunters in the early hours of Friday in the town of Fukushima, Hokkaido. In the town, a ...