By TOM McELROY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Japanese plastic surgeon known for his extreme political views has purchased at auction for $275,000 a memoir by Japanese Emperor […]

By NICK PERRY Associated Press AGRA, India (AP) — Authorities in India are trying to figure out how workers will scale the Taj Mahal’s majestic but delicate dome as they […]

HONG KONG (AP) — Danish toy maker Lego said on Dec. 7 it has won a major legal victory in China, where a court ruled in its favor in a […]

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s much admired Emperor Akihito is set to abdicate on April 30, 2019, at age 85 in the first such departure from […]

BANGKOK (AP) — Two Americans who maintained a social media account called “Traveling Butts’’ have been arrested in Thailand after posting a photo of themselves at a famous Buddhist temple […]

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s military and police continue to perform abusive virginity tests on female recruits three years after the World Health Organization declared they had no scientific validity, […]

By ESTHER HTUSAN Associated Press NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said the world is facing instability and conflict in part because illegal immigration spreads terrorism […]

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese woman was arrested on Nov. 21 after police say she confessed to putting four newborns in concrete-filled buckets two decades […]

By YI-LING LIU and SAM McNEIL Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Dozens of upset parents gathered outside a kindergarten on Nov. 24 in Beijing run by a U.S.-listed company demanding […]