Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and newly elected Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike agreed on Thursday to set aside their differences and work together towards delivering a successful 2020 Olympics and Paralympics Games to be held in Tokyo.
Singh, born in Nepal but moved to London at the age of two, has survived a devastating earthquake in 2015 in Nepal. She will make her Olympic debut on Sunday's 100m backstroke preliminary.
The first ever government task force on modern slavery is to be established in Britain, Prime Minister Theresa May announced Sunday.
One of India’s most prominent human rights activists made a surprising announcement this week, saying she would end a 15-year hunger strike against a law shielding the armed forces from prosecution.
Calmly, Dong Huijuan explained how she had treated a survivor of the devastating Wenchuan earthquake on May 12, 2008, who was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Irom Chanu Sharmila, An Indian civil rights activist, Tuesday decided to end her 16-year-long hunger strike against a controversial law in the country, officials said.
Juliana Lopez Sarrazola, 22, could have faced death sentence after being caught with 610 grams of cocaine hidden in laptop at Guangzhou airport last July
For many in Tangshan, a city leveled by an earthquake 40 years ago, the memories of the disaster are still vivid.
An aide for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Wednesday she took responsibility for copying portions of First Lady Michelle Obama's 2008 address for Melania Trump's convention speech on Monday.
Customs officers investigate women’s claims they were coerced into spending HK$500,000 on more treatment in cases ‘no different to robberies’
It was almost midnight and President Rodrigo Duterte was in full flight at a news conference as he singled out a married TV reporter and told her: "You're again trying to catch my attention, aren't you?" Then, as she was asking him a question, he catcalled and tried a brief serenade. Most in the room laughed.
When the gorilla Salome was presented with a bunch of roses to mark her 40th birthday, she did what all self-respecting members of her species would do. She ate them.
China has seen an increasing number of students enrolled abroad heading home for career development. As part of new series, we are going to share stories of some overseas returnees. We take a look at why they are coming back, the challenges they face and what their expectations are.
New Prime Minister Theresa May pledged to forge a bold, new role for Britain outside the EU and fight "burning injustice" in the country as she took office on Wednesday.
Theresa May promised to build a "better Britain" and to make the UK's EU exit a "success" after she was announced as the new Tory leader and soon-to-be PM.
The storytelling is frantic and the supporting characters lacklustre, but the undersea locations are beautifully rendered and there’s a nail-biting ending to Pixar’s latest animated feature
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