Tatsuya Imai made his intentions clear with his first few words during an introductory news conference with the Houston Astros on Monday. The Japanese right-hander smiled and before reading a prepared ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 hit the western Chugoku region of Japan on Tuesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, followed by a series of sizeable aftershocks. The epicenter ...

Uber on Monday unveiled a custom robotaxi it is adding to its global ride-share platform, starting on the San Francisco home turf it shares with rival Waymo, owned by Google. The Uber robotaxis are ...

When it came time to decide the cover image for Wet Leg’s sophomore album, the British indie rock band packed items that might provide inspiration — velvet worms sewn by guitarist Hester Chambers, an ...

Novak Djokovic withdrew from the Australian Open tuneup tournament in Adelaide, saying Monday that he isn't prepared to return to competition ahead of the year's first Grand Slam event. “To all my ...

The Trump administration has added seven countries, including five in Africa, to the list of nations whose passport holders are required to post bonds of up to $15,000 to apply to enter the United ...

Toshiro Maruyama, mayor of Hakuba in in Nagano Prefecture. The ski resort village has approved the introduction of fines for certain forms of disruptive behavior in public, such as graffitiing and ...

Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics publicly demonstrated its humanoid robot Atlas for the first time Monday at the CES tech showcase, ratcheting up a competition with Tesla and other rivals to build robots ...

Japan's central and local governments, alongside many businesses, started the year's first day of work on Monday, taking on a range of challenges including strained relations with China and recovery ...

Shackled at the ankles and dressed in prison garb, toppled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro stood before a U.S. judge on Monday ‌and declared he was still his country's rightful leader as he faced ...

The operator of a nuclear power plant in central Japan said Monday its employees may have used cherry-picked data for a potential earthquake in quake-resistance tests at the plant to pass the ...

Participants show their writings during the annual New Year calligraphy contest with more than 2,000 participants, at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, on Monday.