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Forensic police inspect the scene of stabbings in Solingen, Germany, on Saturday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 24, 2024

Three dead in knife attack on German festival

Police closed off the center of Solingen, while victims and witnesses were being questioned about the attack on Friday night.
A rocket carrying two astronauts aboard Boeing's Starliner is launched on a mission to the International Space Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on June 5.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 25, 2024

NASA picks SpaceX to rescue astronauts marooned in space

Boeing’s flawed Starliner craft will return without people on board in early September, the U.S. space agency said.
A Hezbollah drone is intercepted by the Israeli Air Force over the country's north on Sunday.
WORLD
Aug 25, 2024

Israel says strikes in Lebanon thwarted large-scale Hezbollah attack

Around 100 Israeli jets struck more than 40 Hezbollah launch sites in southern Lebanon, destroying thousands of launcher barrels, the Israeli military said.
Smoke billows from an area targeted by an Israeli airstrike between the southern Lebanese border villages of Zibqin and Yater on Sunday.
WORLD
Aug 26, 2024

Middle East on edge after Israel bombs Lebanon in preemptive strike

Israeli officials said they had precise intelligence Hezbollah was about to fire missiles at northern Israel and aim drones at a key intelligence center.
Apple TV+ series “Pachinko” follows four generations of a Korean immigrant family as they move through the 20th century.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming
Aug 26, 2024

Masterful and stirring, ‘Pachinko’ returns with more depth

The immersive historical drama is collaborative art at its very best — instead of offering tidy answers, it asks the most profound questions of our times.
French Air Patrol flies to display the colors of the French flag during a ceremony to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Paris next to the Denfert Rocherau Square in Paris on Sunday.
WORLD
Aug 26, 2024

Paris commemorates the 80th anniversary of its liberation in WWII

The events were the culmination of a week of festivities in and around Paris, matching the length of fighting in 1944 before the Germans surrendered the city.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (right) and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pose at the entrance of the Mariinskyi Palace ahead of their meeting in Kyiv on Aug 23.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 27, 2024

In talks with Biden, India's Modi urges peace in Ukraine after trip

Last week, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Ukraine in the first visit by an Indian prime minister in modern Ukrainian history.
Red Sox catcher Danny Jansen at home plate during the second inning against the Blue Jays at Fenway Park in Boston on Monday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 27, 2024

Baseball history as Jansen plays for both sides in same game

A trade during a postponement saw the player swap sides part way through a game.
Construction workers operate on the Place de la Concorde Paralympic site in Paris, on Wednesday, ahead of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
PARALYMPICS
Aug 27, 2024

IPC announces 88 Russian Paralympians to compete as neutrals

The Games will also feature eight Belarusians competing as neutrals.
Remnants of the first Moji station complex are located near the current Mojiko Station in the city of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture.
JAPAN / Society
Aug 27, 2024

Kitakyushu clashes with academics over Meiji Era remains

The city wants to proceed with plans to build a five-story complex to house several aging public facilities on the site of the original Moji railway station.
Naomi Osaka serves during her match against Jelena Ostapenko in the first round of the U.S. Open on Tuesday in New York.
TENNIS
Aug 28, 2024

Tearful Osaka triumphs in U.S. Open return

Osaka cruised in her first round match while wearing a Harajuku-inspired outfit that quickly attracted attention on social media.
Participants take part in a mystery-themed matchmaking event organized by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government at Jindai Botanical Gardens in Tokyo in March.
JAPAN / Society
Aug 28, 2024

Japan to support women moving from Tokyo to countryside for marriage

The plan is aimed at helping those interested in relocating at a time when the population of young women in the countryside is shrinking.
A foreign laborer works at a construction site amid scorching heat in Riyadh in 2022.
SOCCER / World cup
Aug 28, 2024

Saudi Arabia's World Cup bid renews fears for migrants' welfare

Foreign laborers who dealt with harsh conditions in Saudi Arabia are warning about a pending construction boom for stadiums for the 2034 World Cup.
Pope Francis arrives at the weekly general audience at the Vatican on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 29, 2024

Pope Francis takes climate message to Southeast Asia on 12-day trip

It will be the longest trip yet by Pope Francis, who now regularly uses a wheelchair due to knee and back pain.
Waves break against protecting walls as Typhoon Gaemi approaches Keelung, Taiwan, on July 24.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Aug 29, 2024

Climate change fueled deadly Typhoon Gaemi, study finds

Typhoon Gaemi's wind speeds were 7% more intense due to human-caused climate change, and its rainfall was 14% heavier in Taiwan and 9% heavier in Hunan.
People sunbathe on a rock in Beirut's Ain al-Mreisseh seaside promenade on Aug. 2.
WORLD
Aug 30, 2024

The threat of war with Israel redefines ‘normal’ life in Beirut

Israel and Hezbollah have been trading fire along the border, exchanges that could spiral into a bigger, broader conflict involving global and regional powers.
Torrential rain in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Friday as Shanshan brought heavy precipitation to the capital.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Aug 30, 2024

How climate change made Shanshan more likely and more devastating

The devastating winds of Shanshan were 26% more likely due to climate change, a rapid analysis has found, highlighting the impact of warming on severe storms.
Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally at Enmarket Arena during a two-day campaign bus tour in Savannah, Georgia, on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 30, 2024

Seven takeaways from Harris’ first major interview

The vice president answered questions in the CNN interview without causing herself political harm or providing herself a significant boost.
Bureaucrats had envisioned payments of up to ¥600,000 for women who got married and settled outside of Tokyo, according to media reports.
JAPAN / Society
Aug 30, 2024

Japan scraps idea to woo women out of city with cash

Bureaucrats had envisioned payments of up to ¥600,000 for women who got married and settled outside of Tokyo.
China's Xia Zhou celebrates after crossing the line to win gold in the women's T35 100-meter final on Friday at the Paris Paralympics.
PARALYMPICS
Aug 31, 2024

China extends lead in Paralympic medals table after track success

The Chinese, who have topped the medal standings at every Paralympics since Athens in 2004, finished the second day of competition with 12 gold.
Scottie Scheffler plays his shot off the ninth tee during the final round of the Tour Championship golf tournament in Atlanta on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Golf
Sep 2, 2024

Scheffler crowns dominant season with FedEx Cup title

The player is the first to win seven PGA Tour events in a year since Tiger Woods in 2007.
Koji Yamaguchi, president of Ox Engineering, says Paralympic athletes using the firm's wheelchairs won more than 140 medals in summer and winter games combined between 1996 and 2021.
JAPAN
Sep 2, 2024

Wheelchair-maker in Japan empowering Paralympic athletes

Founded in 1988 as a developer of motorcycle engines and parts, the company switched to the wheelchair business in 1995.
Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing is following global peers in expanding its derivatives offerings in a bid to boost trading.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 2, 2024

A new way of betting on tech stocks is emerging in Hong Kong

The bourse was launching weekly options on the Hang Seng Tech Index, which tracks stocks including Alibaba Group Holding and JD.com that also trade in the U.S.
A Ukrainian firefighter works to extinguish a burning car after what Ukrainian officials said was a Russian missile strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Sunday.
WORLD
Sep 2, 2024

Russia strikes Kharkiv following Ukraine's mass drone attack

Russia said Kyiv had launched one of the biggest drone attacks against it since the full-scale war began.
Tongan dancers performing a traditional dance at the closing ceremony of the 53rd Pacific Island Forum leaders' meeting in Nuku'alofa, Tonga, on Friday. Taiwan said it signed a pact with the forum's secretariat on Friday that will see it continue its support for the strategically important region until 2027.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 2, 2024

Taiwan staves off exclusion with Pacific island cooperation pact

The signing of the pact will see the self-ruled island continue its support for the Pacific islands until 2027.
A visually impaired runner (left) and an accompanying runner participate in a training session for guide runners held in Tokyo in July.
JAPAN / Society
Sep 3, 2024

Japan working to train guides for visually impaired runners

Guide runners are essential when visually impaired individuals participate in marathon events.
With so many voters suffering financially and showing an eagerness to throw politicians out of office, delivering higher living standards appears to be a necessary condition for restoring political stability to the world’s democracies.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 1, 2024

Political and economic chaos through 'the looking glass'

America is not alone in experiencing an unanticipated upheaval. Five years ago, it seemed inconceivable that a major ground war would occur on the European continent.
A welcome message for Pope Francis is displayed on an electric billboard at a roundabout in Jakarta on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 3, 2024

Pope heads to Indonesia as the first stop of his four-nation tour

The tour — the longest and farthest of his 11 years leading the worldwide Catholic Church — will test Pope Francis' increasingly fragile health.
Kyoto International High Shool's baseball team receives a champion flag after winning the Japanese High School Baseball Championship final at Koshien Stadium in Hyogo Prefecture on Aug. 23.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 31, 2024

A high school baseball championship and Japan-South Korea relations

The reactions to Kyoto International High School winning the National High School Baseball Championship, both in Japan and South Korea, were intriguing.
Hiromi Kawakami’s “Under the Eye of the Big Bird” takes place in a future where humans have developed genetic mutations that allow them to read minds and have powers of prescience.
CULTURE / Books
Sep 3, 2024

'Under the Eye of the Big Bird': Hiromi Kawakami's speculative future sets civilization adrift

The author reimagines sexual reproduction, family ties and societal roles in a passionless world that is neither a dystopia nor an improvement on reality.
Taiwan stuns Samurai Japan to capture Premier12 title
Japan starter Shosei Togo reacts after allowing a three-run home run against Taiwan in the fifth inning of the Premier12 final on Sunday.
Japan and U.S. to form missile plan in case of Taiwan emergency
A U.S. Marine Corps M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) and a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force Type 12 Surface-to-Ship Missile (12SSM) system are put on display at a symposium at a base in Kisarazu, Japan, in June 2022.
Preparations for Osaka Expo well underway amid lack of excitement
The Grand Ring, a symbol of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka
Ishiba shelves proposal for liaison offices with North Korea amid rising tensions
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks on Saturday in Tokyo at a rally that was held by a group of families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea decades ago to demand the immediate return of all abductees.
'Kohaku' still matters for J-pop bragging rights
Emerging Gen Z J-pop group ME:I will perform on this year's "Kohaku Uta Gassen," national broadcaster NHK’s New Year's Eve spectacle.
How Japan can exit the fossil fuel subsidies it can’t seem to quit
A man walks past a gasoline station in Tokyo on Thursday.
An iconic 32-foot doughnut might give Randy’s an edge in Japan
Randy's Donuts in Inglewood, California. Replicas of the giant doughnut sculpture will be installed, where possible, at shops in Japan.
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.

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