Called "tears of mermaids" or "dewdrops from the moon," pearls have captivated people since antiquity. The world's first ...

A ceremony in Vietnam's largest city Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday celebrated the opening of the country's first subway, built ...

Japanese high school students working as "peace ambassadors" for the abolition of nuclear weapons collected signatures for ...

North Korea says its leader Kim Jong Un has visited a northwestern province that was devastated by heavy rain in late July.

French nuclear power operator EDF says it has connected an advanced pressurized water reactor in the country's northwest to ...

George Bory: Over the entire year, that growth may slow down a little, maybe to about two and a half percent–so a modest ...

Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles attacked the central Russian city of Kazan, about 800 kilometers east of Moscow, on ...

Iceland has both a female president and a female prime minister for the first time, after Kristrun Frostadottir was appointed prime minister.

US President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on imports from the European Union unless it imports a large ...

Workers at a number of Starbucks outlets in the United States have gone on strike in a pay dispute in the lead up to ...

The US military says it will allow Osprey tilt-rotor transport aircraft to resume flights if a key part passes an inspection.

Hirata Miyu is an NHK correspondent based in Tokyo. She joined in 2019 and was previously stationed in Fukuoka and Shizuoka ...