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Dramatic footage released by the Japan coastguard shows the rescue of a 69-year-old man in rough seas after spending 22 hours drifting in open water.The man, whose name has not been released, was alone on a boat off Kagoshima prefecture in the sou…
A 24-year-old man was arrested after brandishing a knife and starting a fire on a train in Tokyo on Sunday night. The incident occurred on a Keio Line train near Kokuryo station in the western Tokyo city of Chofu. Seventeen people were injured, includi…
A Japanese artist has filmed herself trying to swim in a sea with a layer of pumice rocks about 30cm deep in the water. The stones are believed to have travelled almost 1,500km from an eruption in the Pacific’s Ogasawara Islands in August Con…
Drone footage shows vast amounts of pumice pebbles, spewed out months ago by an undersea volcano, clogging up a fishing port in Kagoshima prefecture, in southern Japan. The pumice has so far affected 19 ports in Kagoshima, and 11 on Okinawa, putting hu…
The now former Princess Mako of Japan married her husband Kei Komura, losing her royal status. The couple struggled with a financial scandal that plagued their engagement but said in a press conference to announce their marriage that they were ready to…
People stranded in flood waters in northern India had to be airlifted to safety by Indian air force helicopters. At least 150 people have died in India and Nepal after heavy rains produced flash floods that wrecked crops, blocked roads and wa…
A volcano blasted ash two miles into the sky after erupting on Japan’s southern island of Kyushu on Wednesday.Officials warned of a risk of large falling rocks and lava flows within a radius of about half a mile around the mountain’s crater, but t…
A bride and groom use an aluminium vessel to reach a temple in the village of Thalavady. ‘It has turned into a wedding that we never imagined,’ the bride told local news channel AsianetIndian couple float to their wedding in a cooking pot along fl…
Social media footage shows floodwaters sweeping a house away in Kerala after heavy rains that began to intensify on Friday. At least 25 people have died in floods and landslides triggered by the rains in south-west India, officials said on Sunday, as r…
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has watched an extreme martial arts demonstration by soldiers at a military event marking the 76th founding anniversary of its ruling party. In the video aired by the North’s state-run television station, KRT, …
The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has attended celebrations for the 76th anniversary of the founding of the Workers’ party of Korea. Kim made a speech to a gathering of officials, the KCNA news agency said. State media showed Kim&nbs…
Taiwan will keep bolstering its defences to ensure nobody can force the island to accept the path China has laid down that offers neither freedom nor democracy, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Sunday, in a strong riposte to Beijing. Claimed by China as …
The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, said on Saturday that reunification with Taiwan must happen and that it would happen peacefully, despite a week of tensions. Xi spoke at an official celebration in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People that focused large…
Maria Ressa, the journalist and founder of the Philippine news organisation Rappler, said she was ‘speechless’ after learning of her Nobel peace prize win while participating in a panel discussion on journalism in south-east Asia.Ressa could be seen an…
Maria Ressa, the journalist and founder of the Philippine news organisation Rappler, said ‘we are fighting for facts’ after she was announced the joint-winner of the 2021 Nobel peace prize with the Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov. ‘This shows that th…