1. Trade talks conclude: US stock futures were volatile Friday as investors worried about disappointing economic data and US-China trade talks.

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Japan was drawn Thursday against top-seeded France and Serbia in Pool A for November’s Davis Cup finals.The International Tennis Federation’s new format for the competition ...

Olympic gold medalists Tom Slingsby and Nathan Outteridge dominated the opening day of the inaugural SailGP races for their respective teams in light winds on ...

Rika Kihira said Friday she aims to cap her remarkable senior debut season with a world championship.The 16-year-old, who won the women’s individual titles at ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been attempting to find more allies in his bid to revise the pacifist Article 9 of the Constitution, but instead ...

The government approved a bill Friday to recognize the country’s ethnic Ainu minority as an “indigenous” people for the first time, after decades of discrimination ...

Ticket machines were out of service at some stations Friday on bullet train lines across Japan due to a technical glitch.The machines went offline in ...

The Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe approved a bill Friday that will make Japan’s health insurance program for employees applicable only to workers and ...

Knicks coach David Fizdale gives his team credit for not giving up during a losing streak that lasted nearly six weeks.“I keep talking about this ...

The San Diego Padres have doubled down on their pursuit of free agent infielder Manny Machado. Padres general manager A.J. Preller flew to Miami last ...

Third-ranked Gonzaga was trailing midway through the second half and the nation’s highest-scoring team was being slowed.The Bulldogs came up with a late burst to ...

A woman in her 50s who served as a volunteer interpreter at a marathon in Oita Prefecture has apologized for an online blog post in ...

North Korea told Tokyo that Minoru Tanaka, a native of Hyogo Prefecture who went missing in 1978, now lives in Pyongyang with his wife and ...

Lawyers representing South Koreans seeking reparations from Japanese steel-maker Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corp. over wartime labor issues declared Friday they will soon start ...

Wong Pei Ting40 min 14 sec agoSINGAPORE — On his first day of work as a forklift operator at a container yard, Chin

From going without a host to handing out key awards during commercial breaks to a quickly nixed idea for a popular film category — Oscar ...

World No. 7 Kei Nishikori breezed past Latvian lucky loser Ernests Gulbis 6-1, 6-4 on Thursday to reach the quarterfinals of the ABN AMRO World ...

Environmental campaigners have filed an unprecedented lawsuit in a bid to halt the so-called drive hunting of dolphins in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, arguing that the ...