Draped in dazzling kimonos, thousands of expensively made-up young Japanese women marked their entry into adulthood on Monday – with many planning a night on the booze to celebrate.
Japan's ambassador to South Korea returned to Tokyo on Monday (Jan 9), reiterating its frustration over a statue of a "comfort woman" which has reignited a diplomatic row over Tokyo's wartime sex slavery.
Fifteen men have been charged after police said they made the biggest cocaine bust in Australia's history.
Legendary Johnny’s group SMAP has had their final performance as a group, performing one of their signature hits “Sekai ni Hitotsu Dake no Hana” on the last episode of their variety show SMAP X SMAP .
The death toll from Tuesday's explosion at a fireworks market in central Mexico rose to 35 on Thursday, as two of those hospitalized succumbed to their injuries.
It was only a matter of time: Disney has set an industry record for biggest global box-office haul in a single year.
Painkillers containing codeine will require a prescription in Australia from 2018 amid concerns over misuse.
South Korea's Constitutional Court reviewing President Park Geun-hye's impeachment over corruption allegations said Tuesday it will hold the first preparatory hearing later this week.
The United States on Monday condemned "in the strongest terms" an attack on Christmas Market in Berlin, Germany which killed at least nine.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon made a rare criticism of South Korea's Park Geun-hye administration last week over a corruption scandal involving the chief executive and her longtime friend, voicing concerns over the country's "complete lack of good governance."
Chiefs of South Korea's major conglomerates on Tuesday attended a parliamentary hearing for a scandal involving President Park Geun-hye and her longtime confidante.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday that he hopes for progress in peace treaty talks with Russia but that the issue can't be settled in one meeting.
Lufthansa is cancelling around 1,700 flights over the next two days due to a fresh strike by pilots in a long-running dispute about pay, the airline said on Monday (Nov 28).
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The ruling Socialists in France, already deeply divided, are seeking how to water down speculations over fresh rift between the Elysee and the government after Francois Fillon on Sunday won an overwhelmingly center-right support for next year's presidential election.
The ruling and opposition parties agreed Monday to summon the leaders of the nation's eight largest conglomerates, including Samsung Electronics Co. and Hyundai Motor Group, as witnesses for their parliamentary probe into a corruption scandal involving President Park Geun-hye's confidante.
European Union foreign ministers on Monday criticised Turkey's crackdown on alleged supporters of a failed military coup in July but Austria's call to suspend Ankara's EU membership bid failed to garner enough backing.
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