London – Every Christmas, Brits devour about 800 million mince pies, but moves to jazz up the festive sweet treats made of dried fruit and pastry are stirring anger among...

New York – Japan will remain the third-largest contributor to the United Nations’ regular budget for 2025-27, according to a resolution adopted by the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday. The...

Andaman Sea, Thailand – Almost 1,000 kilometers off the Thai coast devastated by a tsunami 20 years ago, engineers lower a detection buoy into the waves — a key link...

Shizuoka Prefecture has recorded the longest estimated average healthy life expectancy for both men and women as of 2022, at 73.75 and 76.68 years respectively, the health ministry said Tuesday....

Behind a record surge in cocoa prices this year, a corner of financial markets that drives the cost of chocolate underwent a seismic shift: The hedge funds that oiled its...

DAMASCUS – Syrian Christians attended Christmas Eve services on Tuesday for the first time since the overthrow of President Bashar Assad in early December, in an early test of the...

WASHINGTON – Former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz paid tens of thousands of dollars to women for drugs and sex that were violations of a series of House rules and included...

LONDON – Democracy looks bruised but not beaten as it heads into 2025. In a year in which countries representing almost half the world’s population called voters to the polls,...

Japan drew up on Tuesday a basic concept for the promotion of regional revitalization, aiming to realize economic growth and maintain the functions of society even as the country’s population...