Japanese fast-food company Yoshinoya Holdings Co said on Tuesday it would raise the price of its signature beef bowl dish - long a symbol of the deflationary economy - for the first time in 24 years because of higher import costs.
Britain's Prince William sat down with President Barack Obama in Washington on Monday and unveiled an effort to curtail illegal wildlife trading, while his wife, Kate, made an impression as a down-to-earth duchess with preschoolers and prominent British expats in New York.
Western Australia's controversial shark-culling policy has been influenced by Jaws and other Hollywood films, an Australian academic said on Tuesday.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott abandoned a plan on Tuesday to radically reshape Australia's universal healthcare system by charging patients a fee to see their doctor, a major flip backward for his struggling conservative government.
A chill wind is blowing through Japan's media as a resurgent political right wing pressures the country's liberal voices in what analysts say presents a threat to democracy as voters head to the polls for a general election.
Philippine emergency workers were struggling on Tuesday to reach coastal villages on the island hardest hit by a typhoon where thousands of homes have been wrecked, suggesting the Red Cross's estimated death toll of 27 may rise.
Forget dust-ups over reclining seats in economy class. There's a new and exclusive twist on inflight anger: Nut rage in first class.
New Delhi has decided to ban all unregistered Internet taxi firms after a female passenger said she was raped by a driver contracted to US online cab company Uber, an official said on Tuesday.
The number of people dying from malaria has been almost halved since 2000, although progress in West Africa risks being reversed by the Ebola outbreak, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.
A South African judge delayed ruling on Tuesday on whether to allow an appeal against Oscar Pistorius' five-year prison sentence, saying she wanted more time to consider arguments.
US health regulators estimate that consumers will suffer up to $5.27 billion in "lost pleasure" over 20 years when calorie counts on restaurant menus discourage people from ordering french fries, brownies and other high-calorie favorites.
Light pours in when the retired postal worker opens the window to his bedroom. A withered old poster, an image of flowers, appears out of the shadows. "Love is enough," the poster says.
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