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Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou's famous autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird...

The Senate dived into contentious debate Friday on a budget plan critical to Republican efforts to pass trillions of dollars in tax cuts and...

Security at Melbourne Cricket Ground will be ramped up after two men were charged over smuggling handguns and bullets into a crowd of over 8...

What an unhappy country this is, ranking a dismal 55th in this year’s World Happiness Report. Why should it be so? Japan is democratic and a...

On the outskirts of Paris, 44-year-old French Muslim weightlifter Sylvie Eberena concentrates hard and pushes 80 kilos of bar and weights cl...

South Korea's Constitutional Court on Friday decided to oust President Yoon Suk Yeol, upholding parliament's impeachment motion over his sho...

Sakura Station on the Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line located in Minami Ward in Nagoya has just one sakura (cherry Blossom) tree.

Alpine pit crew members practice at the pits at the Suzuka Circuit in Suzuka, Mie Prefecture, on Thursday, ahead of Sunday's Japanese Formul...

The U.S. government has banned American government personnel in China, as well as family members and contractors with security clearances, f...

China on Thursday urged the United States to immediately cancel its latest tariffs and vowed countermeasures to safeguard its own interests,...

As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a Vienna soccer field last October, they happened upon an unprecedented find: A heap of in...

Global financial markets were rocked on Wednesday by Donald Trump's announcement of sweeping tariffs, targeting China and the European Union...

The Social Security Administration's acting commissioner is facing calls to resign after he issued an order — which was quickly rescinded —...

Jack Grealish ended his long wait for a Premier League goal as a Manchester City side missing Erling Haaland beat struggling Leicester 2-0 o...

Japan skip Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi lines up a stone during a match against South Korea at the men's curling world championships in Moose Jaw, Sas...

Sydney beachfront properties were flooded and coastal infrastructure damaged after a large swell combined with a king tide to batter the Aus...

Val Kilmer, the California-born, Juilliard-trained actor who starred in films including "Top Gun," "The Doors," "Tombstone" and "Batman Fore...

China's military held long-range live-fire drills in the East China Sea on Wednesday in an escalation of ongoing drills around Taiwan, sayin...

U.S. National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, who has faced calls to resign over his role in the recent Yemen chat group scandal, saw renewed s...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reinforced U.S. military capability in the Middle East with more warplanes, the Pentagon said on Tue...

The final U.S. soldier who went missing in Lithuania has been found dead, bringing to an end a massive weeklong search for the four service...

A sparrow sits on a branch of a cherry tree in Tokyo.

Seven people were injured but conscious after a car barreled through a busy area of downtown Nagoya, central Japan, on Tuesday, local author...

Whole herds of cattle have drowned in vast inland floods seeping across the Australian outback, officials said Tuesday as the muddy tide dre...

Aid groups arriving in the worst-hit areas of Myanmar said there was an urgent need for shelter, food and water after last week's devastatin...