The first phase of a US-backed plan to end the conflict in Gaza appears to be in motion, but can it guarantee a lasting peace ...

Police in Japan say DNA analysis has confirmed human bone and teeth fragments found in Miyagi Prefecture belong to a six-year ...

Hungarian author Laszlo Krasznahorkai has been named the winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy ...

Leaders in Europe have welcomed the announcement that Israel and Hamas reached an agreement on the first phase of the ...

Japanese beer, beverage and food giant Asahi Group Holdings says production has resumed at all of its plants across the ...

The Taliban's foreign minister has arrived in India for the first visit by a leader of the Islamist group since it seized ...

Myanmar's pro-democracy camp says 24 people, including children, were killed when the country's military used paragliders to ...

Taiwan's defense ministry says China is trying to stir anxiety among Taiwanese to help set the stage for a possible invasion.

It is now 20 years since a devastating earthquake in northern Pakistan claimed the lives of more than 70,000 people.

Tokyo's main stock index set another record high on Thursday. The Nikkei 225 finished above the 48,000 mark for the first ...

Japanese scientist Kitagawa Susumu, one of the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, says he hopes to tell people ...

China's Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday that export applications for overseas military users will not be approved in ...