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The percentage of adults suffering from diabetes across the world has doubled over the past three decades, the biggest rises coming in devel...

Health officials on Wednesday confirmed bird flu in a British Columbia teen and said the virus was related to a poultry outbreak in the prov...

For decades, the Shibuya ward of downtown Tokyo has had an image as a party place. Things are less celebratory these days, though, as after...

Carlos Alcaraz opened his account at the ATP Finals on Wednesday with an entertaining 6-3, 7-6 (10/8) win over Andrey Rublev, while Casper R...

The United Nations and other international organizations are bracing for four more years of Donald Trump, who famously tweeted before becomi...

The Republicans were declared the majority party in the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday, completing a clean sweep of Congress and th...

Security guards surround Los Angeles Dodgers' superstar Shohei Ohtani's 50th home run baseball during the Dream High Exhibition in Taipei, T...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba received a medical checkup on Wednesday for the second time in five days, amid concerns after he appe...

Airlines in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia and Singapore cancelled flights to and from the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Wednes...

Officials in southern China ramped up security on Wednesday at the site of one of the country's deadliest mass-casualty events in years, snu...

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said Elon Musk and former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will lead a new “Department of...

Melonbooks is one of Japan’s largest sellers of doujinshi, independently produced manga/anime art. However, as of next month customers will...

British writer Samantha Harvey won the prestigious Booker Prize on Tuesday for her science fiction novel following six astronauts as they or...

Jannik Sinner hit the accelerator at the end of each set as he cruised past Taylor Fritz 6-4, 6-4 on Tuesday to close in on a semifinal spot...

A woman wearing a kimono walks through numerous torii gates in Fushimi Inari-Taisha shrine, Kyoto.

Controversial YouTuber and Twitch streamer Johnny Somali has been indicted for "causing a commotion" at a convenience store in South Korea,...

Japanese soccer player Kazuyoshi Miura is several generations older than his teammates. His contemporaries retired decades ago. Lionel Messi...

Typhoon Toraji unleashed floods, knocked down trees and caused power outages in the northern Philippines before weakening into a tropical st...

New Zealand offered a historic national apology on Tuesday to victims and families of hundreds of thousands of young people and vulnerable a...

Police in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai have arrested a 62-year-old man after a suspected hit-and-run attack at a sports center that r...

Riot police in Amsterdam on Monday evening arrested several people during another eruption of violence sparked by a soccer match between Isr...

A man was killed, a woman is in a critical condition and two other people were seriously injured after a car driven by an 84-year-old woman...

Wooden votive plaques called ema with hand-written messages of hope and wishes for the coming Year of the Snake are seen at Kiyomizu-dera te...

Hundreds of people on Monday set out on a nine-day march to New Zealand's capital of Wellington in protest over legislation that would reint...

Yuichiro Tamaki, the head of the Japanese opposition party that has emerged as kingmaker as lawmakers select the next prime minister on Mond...