OSLO: Nuclear disarmament group ICAN won the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday for its decade-long campaign to rid the world of…

TOKYO: Japan’s public broadcaster apologised yesterday to the parents of a young reporter who died of heart failure after logging…

WELLINGTON: The tiny Pacific island nation of Niue yesterday announced the creation of a huge marine sanctuary, saying it wanted…

TOKYO: The Japanese coastguard said yesterday it had discovered a dozen bodies inside a Chinese fishing boat that capsized after…

NAIROBI: Police in Kenya fired tear gas yesterday at crowds of opposition supporters marching in three main cities ahead of…

GENEVA: With the nuclear threat at its most acute in decades, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which…

TOKYO: The popular governor of Tokyo, Yuriko Koike, Friday unveiled her policy platform to unseat Prime Minister Shinzo Abe,…

WASHINGTON: Facebook said Thursday it was testing a new “button” to allow users to get more context about a…