Shoon Mitsunaga won gold in the men’s 100-meter butterfly at the Asian Games Aichi-Nagoya 2026 on Wednesday, with a time of 50.56 seconds, setting a new Japan record.

Flight 1502, a Boeing 737-800 that had taken off from Naha Airport in Okinawa, returned to Naha Airport and made an emergency landing at around 10:10 p.m. on Wednesday due to a malfunction in its ...

The women’s team of Japan for artistic gymnastics finished with the silver medal on Wednesday at the Asian Games Aichi-Nagoya 2026. China won gold medal in the final.

The fate of the Chagos Islands is in the hands of one man almost half a world away. The contested Indian Ocean archipelago that is home to a strategically important U.K.-U.S. military base has been in ...

Australia said on Wednesday an OpenAI agent breached a government health data portal in June, gaining unauthorised access to files, in what could be the first known instance of an AI agent hacking a ...

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President Donald Trump is expected to press Chinese leader Xi Jinping to free two US citizens held by China, but it is not clear whether other human-rights issues will get similar attention during ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Washington on Wednesday, where he was met with a rare planeside greeting from President Donald Trump after their top officials agreed to extend a trade truce ...

Japan’s medal haul at the Asian Games 2026 Aichi-Nagoya continued on Wednesday as Shoon Mitsunaga won the men’s 100-meter butterfly swimming event at the Tokyo Aquatics Center in Koto Ward, Tokyo.

Speaking ahead of his upcoming appearance at the Global Citizen Festival in New York, X Japan leader Yoshiki said he wants to wash away hate and sadness with “an endless rain of love” in an era marked ...

Japan’s Shoon Mitsunaga secured a record-breaking gold in the men’s 100-meter butterfly on Wednesday, clocking in at 50.56 seconds and setting a new Japanese record.

A tropical depression in the Pacific Ocean south of Japan is forecast to turn into a typhoon on Thursday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.