The world of sumo could be rocked this month if Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi presents a trophy in the ring, where women have traditionally...

A Houston pediatrician, Dr. Christina B. Propst, faced termination after a controversial Facebook post linking Texas flood victims to their...

Japan's manga earthquake prediction: More than 900 earthquakes have shaken a remote and sparsely populated island chain in southern Japan o...

A teenager in Japan fell from a shopping centre rooftop, landing on and killing a pedestrian, prompting her posthumous prosecution for gros...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Thursday announced shortlists for 10 Oscar categories, including documentary and internatio...

These six shows chronicle mysterious vanishings of all kinds, some of them tragic crimes that expose systemic failures, others elaborate es...

The risk to humans is low, said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization. As a precaution, people are ...

Matthew McConaughey's film 'Dallas Sting', scrapped by Skydance, was based on a true story of a girl soccer team that went to an internatio...

Ball boys and girls keeping their distance from sweat-stained towels.

Nicolas Loufrani, the man who owns Smiley, tells ET how the smiling yellow face became a global icon and the poster boy of the happiness mo...

YOLO (You Only Live Once) concept is inspiring women to travel.

Police said one constable was dead and at least 13 others were injured. A second policeman later succumbed to his wounds on way to hospital...

Some 140,000 people died after a U.S. warplane targeted wartime Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, and 70,000 more perished in Nagasaki, where a se...

Founder of social networking giant Facebook is so determined to make his company a success in China that he's even learning the language.

By UN estimate, death toll climbed to to 1,100 while many still missing.

Saurav, a resident of Patparganj in east Delhi, was taking part in the pastry competition at the office cafeteria when he suddenly felt unw...

China's tainted milk scandal spiralled into uncharted territory with the government announcing that up to 53,000 children had been sickened...