North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has renewed his call for a “limitless” expansion of his military nuclear program to counter what he characterizes as U.S.-led threats.

South Korea has announced a package of steps to curb a surge in deepfake porn.

The thousands of young soldiers North Korea has sent to Russia, reportedly to help fight against Ukraine, include many elite special forces, but that hasn’t stopped speculation they’ll be slaughtered because they have no combat experience, no familiarity with the terrain and will likely be dropped onto the most ferocious Russian-Ukraine battlefields.

Hannah Green of Australia shot a 1-under 71 to win the BMW Ladies Championship, her sixth victory on the LPGA Tour and her third this season.

North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has supervised successful tests of two types of missiles as he ordered officials to bolster up his country’s military capabilities to repel U.S.-led threats.

Hockey star Brianna Decker, former NHL players Kevin Stevens and Matt Cullen, late Chicago Blackhawks founder Frederic McLaughlin and the 2002 Olympic gold medal-winning paralympic sled hockey team are being inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame.

A new Apple TV+ documentary series, “K-pop Idols,” offers an intimate look at how the K-pop industry is embracing diversity while grappling with challenges in a field that demands perfection.

Turbulence is knocking a beloved instant noodle offering off Korean Air’s economy menu.

How would you like to take a trip to South Korea without leaving Michigan?

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will make the case for the Biden administration’s expanded commitment to Asia and the Indo-Pacific as he visits Laos, Vietnam, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore and Mongolia this week and next.

Shares are mostly higher in Asia after Wall Street made a comeback from its worst loss since 2022.

Asian shares have dropped morning trading, with Tokyo’s benchmark losing more than 1,000 points at one point and closing 3.3% lower, as pessimism set in over Wall Street's overnight nose-dive.

Shares have fallen in Asia after a broad washout across Wall Street dragged U.S. stocks lower.

Asian stocks are mostly lower even as investors wager that the Federal Reserve will come ahead with a cut to interest rates, while Australia's benchmark hit a new record.

Asian shares have carried on with the blistering rally on Wall Street, as Japan's Nikkei 225 index surged over 42,000 for the first time.

Asian shares are trading mostly higher after Wall Street benchmarks reached more milestones.

Asian shares are trading mostly higher after Tesla zoomed upward, helping drive the U.S. stock market to more records.

Behind the pageantry of President Vladimir Putin’s visit to North Korea, a strong signal came through: In the spiraling confrontation with the U.S. and its allies over Ukraine, the Russian leader is willing to challenge Western interests like never before.

Both Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un say a new strategic partnership is a breakthrough, but what it means for their relationship is still uncertain.

Malawi's president says soldiers are searching mountainous forests near a city in northern Malawi after a military plane carrying the country’s vice president and a former first lady went missing in the area.

Jenny Shin shot a 2-under 69 and will take a one-shot lead into the final round of the ShopRite LPGA Classic as she seeks her first victory since 2016.

Leading artificial intelligence companies made a fresh pledge at a mini-summit Tuesday to develop AI safely, while world leaders agreed to build a network of publicly backed safety institutes to advance research and testing of the technology.

Asian shares are mostly higher after U.S. stocks rallied to records on hopes that inflation is heading back in the right direction.

Asian shares are mixed in muted trading after U.S. stock indexes were little changed.

Stocks in Asia are mixed after a rally on Wall Street that pulled the S&P 500 back within 1% of its record.

Asian shares are mixed after U.S. stocks held relatively steady on Wall Street.

An American soldier has been arrested in Russia's port city of Vladivostok and accused of stealing from a Russian girlfriend.

Asian shares are mostly higher despite worries about the economic outlook and inflation in the U.S. and globally.

Asian shares have opened higher, led by an over 2% gain in Japan’s Nikkei 225 after U.S. stocks rallied for a second straight day Tuesday, blunting the blow of what’s been a rough April.

North Korea has test-fired suspected short-range ballistic missiles into the sea as speculation swirled that it could soon launch a banned satellite into orbit.

The names have been trickling in, one or two at a time.

Global smartphone shipments rose nearly 8% in the first quarter, according to preliminary data from International Data Corp. It’s the third straight quarter of shipment growth and marks the return of Samsung to the No. 1 spot.

South Korea’s prime minister and senior presidential officials have offered to resign after their conservative ruling party was crushed in parliamentary elections.

A crowd of people, some weeping, has gathered at an amusement park in South Korea to bid farewell to a giant panda before her departure to China.

Only a week has passed since the Los Angeles Dodgers abruptly fired Ippei Mizuhara, the translator and constant companion of their new $700 million slugger, Shohei Ohtani.

The firing of Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter by the Los Angeles Dodgers over allegations of illegal gambling and theft has highlighted an issue many outside of California don’t realize: Sports betting is still against the law in the nation’s most populous state.

Learn which Olympic archers and nations are primed and ready to chase the gold medal at the 2024 Paris Games.

South Korea’s government criticized senior doctors at a major hospital for threatening to resign in support of the weekslong walkouts by thousands of medical interns and residents that have disrupted hospital operations.

Asia stocks are mixed after tumbling Big Tech stocks dragged Wall Street to its worst day in three weeks.

Germany’s defense minister says a military officer used an unsecured phone line at a Singapore hotel to join a conference call that was hacked by Russians and leaked to the public.

Shares are mixed in Asia after China's premier said the country's target for economic growth this year is around 5%, in line with expectations.

Saudi Arabia has launched its formal bid campaign to host the 2034 World Cup, in a race that basically became a formality last October when the oil-rich kingdom was the only candidate to enter the contest.

Asian markets are mostly lower as Wall Street benchmarks remain near their record levels.

Thousands of junior doctors in South Korea are a week into a labor boycott in protest of the government’s push to recruit more medical students to cope with the country’s fast-aging population.

Team China dominates the competition as both the Chinese men's and women's team take home the World Team Table Championship Final title in Busan, South Korea.

Asian markets are mixed after Nvidia delivered another blowout quarter, setting off a rally in other technology companies that carried Wall Street to another record high.

Jurgen Klinsmann has been fired as head coach of the South Korean national team after an Asian Cup semifinal exit and reports of infighting among star players.

Preview of the 2024 ITTF World Team Table Tennis Championship Finals and what it means for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

It was a night for teenagers to shine at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha, Qatar.

With some of America’s biggest stars deciding to stay home, Claire Curzan and Hunter Armstrong have claimed the spotlight at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha, Qatar.

James Biden will appear before Republicans for a private interview next month as lawmakers seek to regain some momentum in their monthslong impeachment inquiry into his brother, President Joe Biden.

North Korea says it has conducted a test-firing of long-range cruise missiles with an aim to sharpen its counterattack and strategic strike capabilities.

North Korean state media say leader Kim Jong Un has supervised test firings of new cruise missiles designed to be launched from submarines and also reviewed efforts to build a nuclear-powered submarine.

South Korea’s military says that North Korea fired several cruise missiles that flew over waters near a major military shipyard on the country’s eastern coast, extending a streak in weapons tests that are worsening tensions with the United States, South Korea and Japan.

Asian shares are mostly higher, with Chinese stocks extending gains after Beijing announced a raft of policies to support sagging markets.

Asian shares are mixed after Japan reported its exports jumped nearly 10% in December over a year earlier.

Asian shares are mostly gaining after Wall Street built on its all-time high reached last week, while Japan's central bank has kept its easy credit policy intact.

North Korea said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his willingness to visit the North at an unspecified “early date” as the countries continue to align in the face of their separate, intensifying confrontations with the United States.

Asia markets are mostly advancing after Wall Street recouped most of the week’s earlier losses and Japan reported slowing inflation, which may keep its ultra-low interest rates steady.

The slaying of a South Korean woman during an initiation process for a group that called itself Soldiers of Christ has shocked the large Korean American community in metro Atlanta.

Asian shares have dropped after Wall Street started 2024 with a slump, giving back some of its big gains from last year.

Asian markets opened the year on a downward trend after Wall Street benchmarks ticked lower on the last trading day of 2023.

Japanese reliever Yuki Matsui has agreed to a five-year contract with the San Diego Padres.

Shares are mostly higher in Asia after several strong profit reports helped Wall Street claw back most of its sharp loss from day before.

Asian shares are mixed after a seven-week winning streak on Wall Street cooled.

Asian shares are mixed ahead a decision by the U.S. Federal Reserve on interest rates.

Shares have fallen in Asia after a retreat on Wall Street as crude oil prices slipped on expectations that supply might outpace demand.

Asian shares have advanced after most stocks slipped on Wall Street following a mixed set of reports on the U.S. economy.

Asian shares are mostly higher ahead of the release of U.S. consumer inflation data.

China has presented the United Nations Security Council with a four-point plan for Middle East peace in a demonstration of its ambitions to be a global superpower.

A German thinktank has reported that to prevent global warming from surpassing the critical threshold of 1.5 Celsius, major Asian economies must ensure they can get half of their total electricity from renewables by 2030.

Police say an industrial robot crushed a worker to death at a vegetable packaging plant in South Korea.

Shares are mostly lower in Asia after a mixed close on Wall Street.

South Korea says North Korea has likely supplied several types of missiles to Russia to support its war in Ukraine, along with its widely reported shipments of ammunition and shells.

The tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began its third release of treated and diluted radioactive wastewater into the sea after Japanese officials said the two earlier releases ended smoothly.

Bereaved relatives of victims of last year’s devastating Halloween crush in Seoul and their supporters have demanded an independent investigation of the disaster as they marked the anniversary with a massive memorial service.

Asian shares have risen after the latest tumble on Wall Street.

World shares are mixed after China pledged more spending to counter its economic slowdown.

Shares have skidded in Asia after Wall Street tumbled as bond yields tightened their chokehold.

Asian shares have retreated as the prospect of a 5% yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury for the first time since 2007 added to pressure on Wall Street.

An International Atomic Energy Agency team is in Fukushima for the agency's first marine sampling since treated radioactive wastewater started being released from the area's damaged nuclear plant into the sea.

Jessica Pegula has beaten Yuan Yue 6-2, 6-3 in the final of the Korea Open for the fourth title of her career.

Asian shares are mostly higher as investors await the release of U.S. consumer price data and keep a cautious watch on the war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

Shares are higher in Asia, tracking Wall Street gains following an easing of pressure from the bond market.

Share prices have opened little changed after the the Israeli government declared war following deadly attacks by Hamas from the Gaza Strip.

Asian shares are mostly higher in cautious trading after Wall Street drifted to a quiet close on worries about a too-hot U.S. job market.

Asian markets are trading sharply lower after Wall Street tumbled as it focused on the downside of a surprisingly strong job market: the likelihood that interest rates will stay high.

The Pentagon says that the American soldier who sprinted into North Korea across the heavily fortified border between the Koreas more than two months ago was whisked to a Texas Army base for medical checks and interviews after his return to the U.S. North Korea abruptly announced a day earlier that it would expel Pvt. Travis King.

Asian shares were mostly lower Thursday in subdued trading on looming worries about China property woes.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for an exponential increase in production of nuclear weapons and for his country to play a larger role in a coalition of nations confronting the United States in what he described as a “new Cold War.”.

The White House says the American soldier who sprinted into North Korea across the heavily fortified border between the Koreas two months ago has been released into U.S. custody.

Denmark’s Lego says it remains committed to its quest to find sustainable materials to reduce carbon emissions, even after an experiment by the world’s largest toymaker to use recycled bottles did not work.

Asian shares are mixed after another slump on Wall Street driven by expectations for U.S. interest rates to stay high well into next year.

Asian shares are lower, tracking a slump on Wall Street after the Federal Reserve said it may not cut interest rates next year by as much as it earlier thought.

Asian shares are mostly weaker in cautious trading ahead of the Federal Reserve’s looming decision on interest rates.

Asian shares are mostly lower as markets await a decision by the Federal Reserve on interest rates.

Americans held for years in Iranian custody walked arm-in-arm off a plane into freedom.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has arrived in the far eastern Russian city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur where he was expected to visit a plant that builds fighter jets.

South Korea’s military says North Korea has fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern seas.

The U.S. could have the first Ukrainian pilots trained on F-16 fighter jets before the end of the year, though it will be longer than that before they are flying combat missions.