Typhoon Goni slammed into the Japanese mainland on Tuesday, leaving 13 people with minor injuries and disrupting rail and flight services, as the government issued an evacuation advisory for more than 100,000 residents.
Advocates for making the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico the 51st US state say its economic woes are strengthening their arguments.
Death threats are nothing new for Asif Quaraishi, but the gay Muslim hopes that a documentary about Muslim drag queens will encourage gay British Asians to come out of the closet rather than provoke a backlash against Britain's "hidden" community.
A blast ripped through a warehouse at a US military post and a blaze broke out at a steel plant on Monday in the Tokyo area.
Protesters urging the Lebanese government to resign over a trash crisis said on Monday they were postponing an additional demonstration and were regrouping after violent clashes erupted in Beirut on Sunday night.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was expected on Monday to call snap elections likely to be held on Nov 1 after efforts to form a coalition government failed.
Thai police found and defused a bomb on Monday, a week after an explosion killed 20 people in the country's worst-ever bomb attack. However, it was not clear if the device found at a Bangkok construction site had anything to do with the earlier blast.
The two sides on the Korean Peninsula kept their militaries on their highest alert, as inter-Korean crisis talks entered their third day on Monday.
British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Monday he expected sanctions on Iran could start to be lifted as early as spring next year.
As crews made inroads against massive wildfires burning in north-central Washington state, residents and business owners began to assess just how damaging the huge blazes have been.
Researchers returned on Sunday from mapping and sampling a massive swirling cluster of trash floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, as the Dutch-borne crew works to refine a cleanup strategy it will roll out globally.
President Otto Perez dismissed corruption allegations leveled against him by prosecutors and said on Sunday he will not stand down, despite mounting pressure on the government and calls for his impeachment as a presidential election looms.
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