VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -- Pope Francis made his first public appearance in more than five weeks on Sunday, waving from a ...

TOKYO -- The approval rating of Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's cabinet slid to 35% in the latest Nikkei/TV Tokyo ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -- Pope Francis left Rome's Gemelli hospital on Sunday following a five-week stay to be treated for ...

(AP) -- The U.S. has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban figures, including the interior minister who also heads a ...

OSAKA -- Small factories in Japan are taking steps such as opening their doors for public tours to emphasize the big role ...

SAITAMA, Japan -- A new art museum north of Tokyo is aiming to break away from the "white-box" aesthetics that dominate many ...

OSAKA/TOKYO -- Logistics and transportation companies in Japan have begun recruiting foreign nationals as drivers now that ...

TOKYO -- Japanese trading house Itochu will raise its iron ore concessions to about 40 million tonnes on an annual production ...

GIFU, Japan -- With 800 years of sword-making tradition, the city of Seki in Japan's Gifu prefecture is tapping its claim to ...

OTTAWA (Reuters) -- New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Sunday called a snap election for April 28, saying he needed a strong mandate to deal with the threat that U.S. President Donald Trump's ...

ISTANBUL (AP) -- A court formally arrested the mayor of Istanbul, a key rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Sunday and ordered him jailed pending the outcome of a trial on corruption charges.

ISTANBUL (AP) -- A court formally arrested the mayor of Istanbul and key rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday and ordered him jailed pending the outcome of a trial on corruption charges.