Ukraine has marked its Independence Day as its people grapple with the mounting toll of the war with Russia and the difficult ...

Rabaul in Papua New Guinea was the site of fierce fighting during WWII. The conflict left behind vast amounts of wartime ...

More than 2,000 people are killed by lightning strikes in India each year. Many are poor farmers working outdoors during the ...

People across Japan are dealing with another day of scorching heat on Sunday. Temperatures in many areas are at dangerous ...

Intense rain fell in Kyoto Prefecture on Monday. Weather officials are calling on residents to be on alert for flooding in ...

Officials in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, are trying to get the full picture of the damage brought by ...

Indonesia and the United States have kicked off their annual joint military exercise, with 15 other nations participating.

The Japan Meteorological Agency says it will delay the launch of a new weather satellite by two years due to slower than ...

A city in central Japan has drafted an ordinance seeking to limit people's use of smartphones and other devices to two hours ...

Senior officials from Japanese police and prosecutors have apologized to the family of a man who was wrongly charged for ...

Powerful typhoon Kajiki has made landfall in central Vietnam. Local authorities have launched mass evacuations.

A Tokyo-based startup says it will issue the first stablecoin cryptocurrency pegged to the Japanese yen later this year.