Princess Noriko (R), second daughter of the late Prince Takamado and Princess Hisako, speaks beside fiance Kunimaro Senge at the Imperial Household Agency in Tokyo May 27, 2014.
Floods caused by torrential rains have forced 17,648 people to flee home and take shelters in Tebing Tinggi city in North Sumatra, Indonesia, head of the city's disaster agency told Xinhua over phone on Monday.
One passenger was killed and four others seriously injured as a helicopter crashed in Indonesia's north Sumatra Island Monday morning, local media reported.
The Aurora Australis, an Australian icebreaker, is traveling slowly due to the poor weather and has so far come within 11 nautical miles of the trapped Russian vessel in Antarctic sea ice for the past six days.
An Antarctic blizzard has halted an Australian icebreaker's bid to reach a Russian ship trapped for a week with 74 people onboard, rescuers said on Monday.
South Korean rail workers, who have been on the country's longest strike for fear of privatization of railway services, have decided to end their long-drawn-out walkouts.
A poll conducted in Japan has shown that nearly 70 percent of respondents think Shinzo Abe should take diplomatic relations into consideration in deciding whether to visit the Yasukuni Shrine.
The men in Sendai Station are potential laborers that Sasa can dispatch to contractors in Japan's nuclear disaster zone for a bounty of $100 a head.
China is taking a tougher stance toward Japan, observers said, after a state councilor condemned Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to a shrine honoring its war dead, including war criminals.
Abe is pressing ahead with his long-time goal of removing constitutional restrictions on a military buildup, despite worldwide criticism over his visit to the Yasukuni Shrine.
Delhi Police has seized illicit drugs worth 1 billion rupees ($16 million) in one of its biggest hauls made in four separate raids across the Indian capital.
An estimated 40,000 opposition supporters took to the streets in Phnom Penh to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Hun Sen and a re-vote following allegations of serious irregularities during the July election.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's latest visit to the controversial Yasukuni shrine may have stirred a wider range of condemnation than he had expected.
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