After more than 50 attacks in a year, stores now close earlier in Akita. Mail delivery has stopped in some places. And children no longer walk alone to school.

Former US Vice President Dick Cheney's funeral has been held in Washington DC, but Donald Trump and JD Vance were not invited.

The woman was the romantic partner of one of the men charged over the deaths of Callum and Jake Robinson and American Jack Carter Rhoad, who had travelled from California to surf in the area.

A broadcast of an episode of Doctor Who on a Chicago TV station was interrupted by a mystery man in a Max Headroom mask.

The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has repudiated its past insistence that vaccines do not cause autism, echoing rhetoric from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Starting in the exhibition hall, a fire triggered a mass-evacuation from COP30 as countries negotiate new climate targets.

The US president’s 28-point proposal has been sent to Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky ahead of expected talks. It would slash the size of the nation’s army and cede territory to Russia.

The US president accuses a group of Democrats of being traitors, after they urged the US military to refuse illegal orders.

Ukraine would have to halve its army under a reported peace plan brokered between the US and Russia.

Right at a time when it needs more support from the West, Ukraine is being squeezed on two fronts. 

Two apartment blocks in Ukraine were hit by missiles on Wednesday. Australians are funding the military that fired them.

New images from an airport surveillance camera show the left engine and pylon separating from the wing just as the plane began to lift off from the runway in Louisville.

Where others have withered, this mountain town has reinvented itself as a refuge for Tokyo’s entrepreneurs and artists - thanks to one smart decision.

Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna’s months-long campaign for the release of the Epstein files started with a single text. It ended with 218 signatures.

US President Donald Trump has signed legislation that compels his administration to release files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

In a disastrous month, the US president has repeatedly shot himself in the foot with his insult gun, and his old MAGA allies have turned their backs on him.

In a gushing magazine interview, the Duchess of Sussex also describes how much she loves working from home, “showing up” for her friends and learning from her mistakes.

Details have emerged of a new 28-point plan thrashed out in a flurry of secret talks between Trump’s team and the Kremlin, as the UK warns about spy ship off Scotland.

The decision clears the way for the Department of Justice and FBI to make public tens of thousands of records relating to the criminal investigation into deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Speaking to media, Climate Minister Chris Bowen announces that Australia has handed COP31 to Turkey, while retaining a role as leading negotiations.