The Tokyo District Court on Monday sentenced a former Mitsubishi UFJ Bank employee to nine years in prison for stealing a total of 395 million yen worth of gold bars and cash belonging to six ...

The United Nations' cultural agency selected former Egyptian tourism and antiquities minister Khaled El-Enany as its new chief on Monday, handing him the keys to revive UNESCO's fortunes after the U.S ...

President Donald Trump is considering admitting far fewer refugees into the U.S. this year — as few as 7,500, and mostly white South Africans, officials say — a dramatic new low as the administration ...

The Supreme Court on Monday began a new term that will have a sharp focus on President Donald Trump's robust assertion of executive power. Pivotal cases on voting and the rights of LGBTQ people also ...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday gave Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu two days to salvage his administration, after the premier resigned following less than a month in office in a move that ...

Japan's likely next prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, faced calls Monday to retract remarks that people should "work like a workhorse" and that she should also take back her comments about "work-life ...

A 23-year-old man waiting in his car at a traffic light in Tsushima City, Aichi Prefecture, on Sunday was attacked by a man with a hammer. According to police, the incident occurred at around 4:30 p.m ...

The previously unbeaten Buffalo Bills and Philadelphia Eagles both slumped to shock defeats in the NFL on Sunday as the injury-hit Baltimore Ravens suffered a humiliating blowout. The Bills -- ...

A Spanish male tourist was attacked by a bear cub Sunday morning during his visit to the scenic mountain village of Shirakawa in central Japan, according to the local government. The 40-year-old ...

The death toll from the collapse of a school in Indonesia last week has climbed to at least 50 people as rescuers have cleared nearly all of the debris, rescue authorities said on Monday, in the ...

Rival gunmen shot at each other in a crowded downtown nightlife district in Alabama's capital city Saturday night, killing two people and injuring 12 others in a chaotic street scene, police said. The ...

Sanae Takaichi is poised to become Japan's first female prime minister, but many of her positions are socially conservative in an often still deeply patriarchal nation. Takaichi, whose hero is ...