The Japanese giant said it expected stronger software sales for the year to March 2022, on the back of healthy sales in the first half and ahead of releases including three titles in the popular Pokemon franchise. But it lowered its annual sales ta...

The Chinese foreign ministry's comments came after the Pentagon said that China was growing its nuclear weapons much more quickly than anticipated, narrowing the gap with the United States. The US report said China could have 700 deliverable nuclea...

The coalition led by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, which unseated veteran premier Benjamin Netanyahu in June, controls just 61 of the 120 seats in parliament, and counts on support from right-wingers, centrists, leftists and Islamists. It suffe...

The Japanese gaming giant now projects net profit at 350 billion yen ($3.1 billion) for the year to March 2022, up from an earlier estimate of 340 billion yen. It also hiked its software sales forecast for this fiscal year ahead of releases includi...

The Asian heavyweights took only three points from their opening three fixtures in Group B, but gave themselves hope with a 2-1 home win over second-place Australia last month. The result may well have saved Moriyasu his job, with Japanese media sp...

Peng Shuai, an ex-world number one doubles player, purportedly made the claim about former vice premier Zhang Gaoli in a post on the Twitter-like Weibo on Tuesday. Peng reportedly alleged that Zhang, who is now in his seventies, had "forced" her in...

The world's top business and political figures are gathered in Glasgow this week for COP26, which is aimed at forging an ambitious new climate agreement. But Mexico's leftist leader -- also known as AMLO -- dismissively compared the summit to the W...

Could another "McConaissance" be on the cards, as the category-defying A-lister mulls a run for governor of his home state of Texas, potentially as a third-party candidate next year? "Look, it's been discussed. It's a possible avenue," McConaughey,...

The world's top-selling automaker has recovered quicker than its competitors from some of the impact from Covid, but has been unable to avoid the twin pain of the semiconductor shortage and a supply bottleneck caused by factory disruption. Though t...

"Today, it's a cemetery," said Guarachi, pointing to the rusted poles and cables from the old chair lifts. His eyes scan the 400-meter slope he once shot down at speed on a blanket of snow, now covered only in rocks. "It used to be full of skiers ...

Gardanne is one of the last remaining French coal-fired stations. Ever since the government announced the closure of its coal plants three years ago to help meet climate goals, anger and despair has spread across this community of 20,000, half an ho...

The meeting comes a day after a French court released a British trawler impounded for a week as part of the deepening dispute. David Frost will sit down with French Europe Minister Clement Beaune to continue negotiations after several days of tense...

The world's top-selling automaker now projects a net profit of 2.49 trillion yen ($21.8 billion) for the fiscal year to March 2022, up from an earlier estimate of 2.3 trillion yen. But it left its annual sales forecast unchanged at 30 trillion yen....

The UAE, one of the world's top oil exporters, is building the Gulf region's first waste-to-power plants to ease its chronic trash problem and, at the same time, its reliance on gas-fuelled electricity stations. Green groups are unconvinced. They s...

Danny Fenster, managing editor of Frontier Myanmar, was held in May as he attempted to leave the country. He is currently on trial for allegedly encouraging dissent against the military and unlawful association, and faces six years in jail if convi...