At least 22 soldiers have been killed and several wounded in Nigeria's northeast after insurgents deployed improvised explosive devices and suicide bombers to ward off attacks by the military, the ...

TOKYO -- A Nigerian national was arrested March 7 on suspicion of smuggling illegal stimulants into Japan via international mail, allegedly asking a Japanese woman he met online as part of a ...

The rising level of loneliness among Japan’s ageing population is pushing some elderly women to view life in prison as a better alternative to freedom. At Tochigi Women’s Prison, the largest women’s ...