A South Korean court has sentenced former first lady Kim Keon-hee to one year and eight months in prison for accepting luxury ...

Box-office revenue in Japan hit a record high in 2025, thanks to blockbuster films such as "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba -- ...

Aircraft maker Boeing returned to the black for the first time in 14 quarters in the three months to December. The uptick was ...

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has stressed to Saudi Arabia that Tehran is ready to support any process to avoid ...

North Korea says its leader Kim Jong Un oversaw successful test firing of "large-caliber rockets" on Tuesday. State-run ...

The Japanese yen gained ground against the dollar to trade near a three month high in New York and Tokyo trading. The move is ...

At a shrine in Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, people are busy making good luck charms ahead of Setsubun, the last day of ...

The minutes from the Bank of Japan's December meeting show that policymakers discussed the careful monitoring of long-term government bond yields. The outlook for wages also took up part of the ...

A spokesperson for China's foreign ministry has announced that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will visit the country ...

The United States has formally withdrawn from the Paris Agreement, an international framework to tackle global warming. The ...

Atomic scientists set their "Doomsday Clock" closer to midnight. It symbolizes how close the world is to destroying itself.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says 50,000 Russian losses per month is "the optimal level" for Russia to begin ...