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President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that he'll nominate hedge fund manager Scott Bessent, an advocate for deficit reduction, to se...

France punished an undisciplined Argentina by 37-23 on Friday and swept its three autumn rugby tests.First-half tries from lock Thibaud Fla...

Japan's core consumer prices in October climbed 2.3 percent from a year earlier, increasing at a slower pace for the second straight month a...

Welcome to another episode of Japan This Week, your weekly roundup of trending news stories from Japan Today.In this week’s episode:(0:58...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his past negotiations with the United States only confirmed Washington’s “unchangeable” hostility towar...

Pep Guardiola has signed a two-year contract extension to stay at Manchester City, the club announced Thursday.The City manager's contract...

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg snapped back Thursday at criticism from airline executives who say the Biden administration over-reg...

Brazil’s federal police said Thursday they indicted former President Jair Bolsonaro and 36 other people for allegedly attempting a coup to k...

A fresh draft deal published Thursday at the deadlocked COP29 climate talks shows rich and poor countries still divided as time runs out to...

Former yokozuna and 10-time Emperor's Cup winner Kitanofuji, who also mentored two grand champions including legendary Chiyonofuji before be...

The U.S. government late Wednesday asked a judge to order the dismantling of Google by selling its widely used Chrome browser in a major ant...

Social media companies could be fined more than U.S.$30 million if they fail to keep children off their platforms, under new laws tabled bef...

Major League Baseball scrapped plans to play regular-season games next year in Mexico City and San Juan, Puerto Rico.The season opens on Ma...

Owners of Aibo, Sony's robotic dog pets, attend a ritual for their health, called Shichi-Go-San, which is usually held for praying for child...

Japan racked up a trade deficit in October for a fourth straight month as a weak yen and rising energy prices kept import costs high.The tr...

The U.S. embassy in Kyiv has received information of a potential significant air attack on Wednesday and will be closed, the U.S. Department...

A woman and a baby were shot to death while inside a car in Hartford, Connecticut, on Tuesday after another vehicle pulled up alongside them...

Germany rounded off their Nations League group stage campaign with a 1-1 draw in Hungary after a Dominik Szoboszlai penalty in the 99th minu...

A giant Christmas tree is lit up at the Universal Studios Japan (USJ) amusement park in Osaka on Tuesday night.

A vehicle plowed into students and pedestrians outside a primary school in China's Hunan province on Tuesday morning and several people were...

Hong Kong's High Court on Tuesday sentenced 45 pro-democracy activists to jail terms of up to 10 years in a landmark national security trial...

The Associated Press said Monday that it would begin offering buyouts and lay off selected employees, part of a plan to reduce the news outl...

The U.S. will urge a judge to make Google-parent company Alphabet sell its widely used Chrome browser in a major antitrust crackdown on the...

World number two Iga Swiatek battled back from a set down against Jasmine Paolini to take Poland's Billie Jean King Cup semi-final clash wit...

United Nations climate talks resumed Monday with negotiators urged to make progress on a stalled-out deal that could see developing countrie...