TOKYO - Train operator West Japan Railway Co said on Tuesday that a 16-centimeter crack found in a steel frame of a carriage of a shinkansen bullet train was "extremely serious".
VANCOUVER - The government of the Canadian province of British Columbia has decided to immediately end the hunting of grizzly bears throughout the province.
Christmas markets are becoming an important attraction for independent Chinese travelers looking for experiences that are different to those sought by mainstream tourists from China.
DAMASCUS - Instead of the more traditional baubles and tinsel, a Christmas tree in the old city of Damascus is festooned with the wishes of people for 2018.
OSHKOSH, Wisconsin - A plane that led the invasion of Normandy during World War II has been saved from a junkyard and is being carefully restored in Wisconsin.
SEOUL - A top K-pop star wrote in a suicide note that he was "broken from inside" and "engulfed" by depression, it emerged on Tuesday as his death sent shockwaves among fans worldwide.
SINGAPORE - Local scientists are developing shape-shifting robots that can sweep and vacuum your favorite hawker center on their own, in a multimillion-dollar project.
A "panda boom" is in the air in Japan, as Tokyo's Ueno Zoo begins a limited public exhibition - two and a half hours a day - of its six-month-old giant panda cub, Xiang Xiang, on Tuesday.
SEOUL - More than 3,000 people have signed papers to forgo artificial life-extending treatment when they become incurably ill, in a pilot program leading up to South Korea's first "dying well" law.
PARIS - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been revealed as the owner of a French chateau described as the world's most expensive home, according to a report in The New York Times.
LAGOS - Mention Nigerian literature and the first names likely to spring to mind are Chinua Achebe, the author of Things Fall Apart, or the venerable Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka.
The story of the Chinese volunteers who played a key role in the Allied effort during World War I forms the basis of a novel by a British writer.
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