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A deputy mayor in western Japan died after being crushed under a giant float during a local parade, officials said on Oct. 19, a week after two others were reportedly killed at separate traditional festivals.
The Chinese capital Beijing is expected to become "super-aged" by 2035, with around one-third of its population aged 60 and above.
Supendi, a 33-year-old palm fruit farmer, cooled his heels at a mill in Indonesia's West Kalimantan for four frustrating days earlier this month trying to unload his harvest of fresh fruit bunches before being told to leave as the site was full.
President Vladimir Putin told Pope Leo he had agreed to cooperate after the pontiff asked him on Friday to help get vital supplies into the Russian-controlled Ukrainian town of Oleshky, the Kremlin said.
Napoleon Bonaparte ordered the wartime missive written in code, creating a puzzle that went unsolved for more than 200 years -- until AI cracked it in a matter of hours.
A 16-year-old shooter opened fire on Thursday at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, killing four people including three children, before being killed by an armed member of the community who had pursued the assailant into the school, police said.
Young consumers are using points and cash back to get more value from their spending.
South Korean police said they had detained a man suspected of stabbing eight people, one of which is reportedly in life-threatening condition, at a shopping mall in Incheon on Tuesday.
Pope Leo was diagnosed with lung cancer after surgeons removed a part of his right lung on Tuesday, the Vatican said in a medical bulletin.
The authorities have extended the closure of Riyadh's international airport until Oct. 17 and airlines scrapped flights after continuing attacks by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis emptied the skies over Saudi Arabia's capital.
Malaysia will raise minimum wages and expand tax relief measures next year, as the government looks to address rising living costs despite growing fiscal pressure from a jump in global oil prices.
Scientists in Australia trained sea lions and seals to respond to a hearing test for research into how the marine mammals are affected by human-made noise.
Hurricane Isaias intensified to Category 2 in the Gulf of Mexico's warm waters on Thursday as it churned toward the southern United States, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
After simmering below the surface for years, anger at unaffordable housing in Spain has bubbled over and precipitated a general election that will be dominated by the crisis.
President Donald Trump will present close ally Elon Musk and other tech bosses with the top U.S. scientific award at a ceremony on Thursday, the White House said.
Mass protests over decrepit conditions at France's high schools descended into sporadic violence Tuesday, leading to nearly 500 arrests and prompting President Emmanuel Macron to call an emergency meeting.
Thai authorities on Monday warned of more rain and flash flooding as the death toll from floods across the country since mid-September rose to 31.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk posted on Sunday that he would rename the company's AI unit to SpaceXSI, following U.S. President Donald Trump's push to use the term "super intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence."
AkzoNobel, the maker of Dulux paint, said on Monday it has agreed to sell its Southeast Asian decorative paints business to Nippon Paint for US$1.35 billion, completing a review of its Asian decorative paints portfolio.
Indian flydubai captain Smit Machchhar knew he had to act quickly after an alleged in-flight attack by his co-pilot, opening the cockpit door in a "last push" to get help and avert disaster.
Disney has agreed to license a slate of movies and TV shows to Netflix including existing "Ice Age" films as well as "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" and "Will Trent" series.
A Tokyo court has awarded legal protection to the human voice in a landmark case in which a popular Japanese anime voice actor demanded that TikTok close an account over its unauthorized use of an artificial intelligence clone of his trademark baritone.
Nike plans to cut an undetermined number of jobs and establish a new campus in India as it seeks to accelerate a turnaround following another downcast quarter.
Haze from Indonesian wildfires has blanketed neighboring Malaysia and Singapore for more than a month, closing schools and sending respiratory complaints skyrocketing.
A popular California roller coaster is being permanently shut down after dozens of people claimed to have suffered brain damage while riding it.
Tokyo has logged 34 straight days of rain, marking the longest streak on record, Japan's weather agency said on Tuesday.
Bangkok residents were cleaning up Tuesday after days of flooding that left at least four people dead, while the national carrier warned of continued delays in and out of the Thai capital.
New Delhi will ban construction for six weeks in the country's capital, as part of a slew of measures announced on Sept. 28 to tackle the city’s air pollution.
The Mexican "tourists" told immigration officers in Johannesburg they had come to see the "Big Five" of South Africa's game parks, the elephants, rhinos, lions, leopards and buffaloes that draw millions every year.
Meta has disrupted more than 3.7 million scam-linked accounts, pages and other content this year based on information provided by the Singapore police, the company said Wednesday.
Sri Lanka's Air Force said on Sept. 20 it had flown Buddhist monks who prayed and sprinkled holy water over drought-hit areas in an attempt to encourage rain.
Australia forecast on Monday that deaths would exceed births for the first time in the 2060s, a demographic shift with far-reaching implications for an economy grappling with an ageing population, declining births and cuts to immigration.
Thick smoke from wildfires is blanketing large areas of Indonesia's Borneo island, raising health concerns among residents and disrupting daily life and livelihoods.
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has called for stricter regulations and sanctions against those who use slash and burn methods to clear land, as the country struggles to contain wildfires that have been raging for weeks.
Police in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou have arrested a knife-wielding man who injured people outside a restaurant, the government said late Monday.
A little cheer rose for 79-year-old Hwang Sun-hee after she managed to place an online order at a training session in South Korea, which has one of the world's starkest digital divides for seniors.
A 40-year-old woman in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania has died of measles, authorities said Sunday, bringing this year's death toll from the highly contagious, preventable disease to three, amid declining vaccination rates.
Indonesian rescuers were searching on Sept 13 for 130 people from a passenger ship that flipped in the Java Sea after 113 others were evacuated, the country’s search and rescue agency said, adding that six people had died.
Authorities in the Philippines said on Sunday it could take weeks or months to identify the victims of a ferry fire that killed 76 people, as forensic experts begin collecting and comparing DNA samples from charred remains and investigators determine what caused one of the countr
Philippine rescuers recovered 30 bodies from a burned-out ferry on Friday, raising the death toll from the blaze to 35.
The EU's climate monitor said Thursday that August was the hottest single month ever recorded globally, with ocean temperatures also reaching unprecedented highs as western Europe capped its warmest summer.
Indonesian rescuers combed the waters and islands around an active volcano on Wednesday for a missing speedboat carrying eight people including five journalists sent to cover a volcanic eruption.
Malaysia has lifted an emergency declaration due to fire haze in the district of Serian in Sarawak state after air quality readings dropped back below hazardous levels, but health risks remain, the Prime Minister’s Office said on Sept. 7.
An orangutan mother and her baby, threatened by encroaching wildfires to their habitat in Indonesia, were rescued earlier this week, authorities said in a statement Saturday.
A Chinese national and a local woman in Nepal were rescued on Saturday, as emergency teams searched with fresh agency for thousands missing since the flooding 10 days ago.
Malaysia declared an emergency in Sarawak state's Serian District after thick haze caused by forest fires in neighboring Indonesia pushed air pollution up to hazardous levels on Friday.
Indian authorities have raided an illegal operation in Mumbai that faked expiry dates and nutritional information on original food products manufactured by PepsiCo, Nestle, Coca-Cola and Unilever so they could be exported to other countries.
Japan will ease overtime regulation starting Tuesday in a move meant to help spur economic growth but criticised as a relapse into the country's ingrained workaholic culture.
Authorities in Nepal warned of possible fresh flooding on Sunday and urged residents in flood-affected districts to remain on high alert after water levels rose in the Bhotekoshi River.
More than 3,000 people were listed as missing Sunday, with another 750 confirmed dead, after the flash floods and landslides that hit the Nepal-Tibet border.
The number of people missing in Nepal and China surpassed 2,400 Friday, days after a tsunami-like wall of water and debris swept away villages and killed hundreds.
H5N1 bird flu has been detected in a dead dolphin in South Australia, officials in the state said Friday, the first case of its kind in the country.
Japan plans to probe popular animal cafes, where visitors can interact with anything from cats to capybaras, following concerns about hygiene and the creatures' welfare, authorities said Thursday.
Rescue teams waded through mud on Thursday searching for more than 1,400 people missing after flash floods and landslides struck the Nepal-Tibet border, as the death toll rose again to 392, with entire villages swept away.
Catastrophic flooding and landslides on the Nepal-Tibet border unleashed waves of water and debris that have killed at least 160 people and left hundreds more missing.
Chinese authorities were assisting India's search for 22 crew members missing after a Panama-flagged cargo vessel sank in the Bay of Bengal last week, the Indian Coast Guard said.
Indonesian authorities have arrested 72 people suspected of starting some of the forest and peatland fires as huge blazes in central and west Indonesia triggered choking haze.
Indonesia, the largest economy in Southeast Asia, has given Malaysian agencies official permission to enter its airspace to conduct cloud seeding operations, Malaysia's environment minister said on Monday, part of both countries' efforts to combat the haze blanketing the region.
India's coastguard and navy continued search-and-rescue operations off the eastern coast on Sunday after a Panama-flagged bulk carrier carrying 24 crew members sank, with two Chinese nationals rescued, a senior official said.
Indonesia is deploying an additional 1,500 soldiers to Borneo to help tackle wildfires that have burned through swathes of the island and created thick smog choking some areas.
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