A Philippine Air Force SF-260 trainer on display at the PAF Aerospace Museum in Pasay City. Photo: RoyKabanlit via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped Four Philippine Air Force pilots died on Friday, October 23,...

Japan’s weather agency mistakenly issued an emergency earthquake warning predicting a magnitude 9.9 earthquake after a powerful tremor struck Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on October 16. The alert, which warned of potentially intense shaking across parts...

A Sydney-based currency trader lost his job after his employer discovered that he was working from a Singapore hotel through his laptop while he was expected to be working from home in Australia. The case...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned that North Korean information technology workers are using stolen identities, fraudulent job applications and US-based intermediaries to gain employment at American companies and access sensitive corporate networks....

A 29-year-old man in Japan could face a murder charge after surviving a jump from the 11th floor of a building that killed a 23-year-old woman standing below. The case has sparked a debate over...

Deep beneath the Guliya Ice Cap on the Tibetan Plateau, scientists have found evidence that parts of the glacier preserve a climate record stretching back more than 128,000 years. The finding pushes back the known...

Tokyo recently hosted an unusual competition in which the goal was not to run faster, jump higher, or lift more, but to fall asleep. Dozens of contestants took part in the “Matt Race by Koala,”...

A 31-year-old Japanese Buddhist monk has begun 12 years of isolation on Mount Hiei, undertaking one of the most demanding forms of spiritual training in Japan. Sogaku Taguchi, chief monk of Nanzambo Temple in Otsu,...

A case involving a three-year-old girl allegedly married to a 60-year-old man in Pakistan’s Balochistan province has triggered widespread outrage and a police investigation, with authorities also examining whether the arrangement is connected to the...

Tokyo has a new kind of emergency vehicle, and its patients are not human. Japanese company GMO AI & Robotics Commerce has introduced the “GMO Humanoid Ambulance”, a mobile maintenance vehicle designed to rush to...