An Israeli airstrike flattened a three-story home in Gaza City on Saturday, killing 10 people — half of them children — as Arab mediators scrambled to restart a ceasefire. Israeli strikes killed at ...

Russian middle and high school students will be handed a new textbook titled “My Family.” Published in March, the textbook’s co-author Nina Ostanina, chair of the State Duma Committee for the ...

The Matsuyama Family Court in Ehime Prefecture has decided to send a 16-year-old boy who was arrested on suspicion of stabbing a 16-year-old male classmate at St Catherine Gakuen High School, to a ...

President Donald Trump said Saturday that he doubts Russia's Vladimir Putin wants to end his war in Ukraine, expressing new skepticism that a peace deal can be reached soon. Only a day earlier, Trump ...

When Billy Idol first entered American consciousness in the early '80s, leather-clad and bleached hair in tow, he not only brought a punk rock sound to the mainstream. The Englishman brought a new ...

Nearly a half-century after the Supreme Court ruled that school spankings are permissible and not “cruel and unusual punishment,” many U.S. states allow physical punishment for students who have ...

The 50-year-old former director of a residential nursing home in Hakodate City, Hokkaido, has been arrested on suspicion of stealing a resident's cash card and illegally withdrawing cash multiple ...

Amateur sumo wrestlers hold babies during Nakizumo or a baby-crying sumo contest, where two wrestlers hold a baby each and a referee makes faces and loud noises to make them cry and determine the ...

Representatives of Kurdish groups in Syria called Saturday for a democratic state that gives the country’s Kurds their ethnic rights after the fall of Bashar Assad. Some 400 people representing ...

All four giant pandas on loan to a western Japan zoo will return to China around late June, ahead of the expiration of their lease agreement, the zoo operator said. The 24-year-old Rauhin and her ...

After losing a second straight opening match and three in a row overall, Novak Djokovic said he was facing a “new reality” in his two decades of pro tennis. Djokovic's public coming to terms with his ...

A South Korean court has ordered the Japanese government to pay compensation to the son of a former "comfort woman" over her treatment in military brothels during World War II. The Cheongju District ...