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Young leaders of massive 2014 Hong Kong protests get prison

Aug 17, 2017

Hong Kong gives Joshua Wong, two other young democracy activists prison time, overturning earlier ruling

Floods in southern Japan force hundreds to flee; 2 dead

Jul 6, 2017

Troops working to rescue families stranded by flooding that has left two people dead in southern Japan

Japan holds evacuation drill amid tension from N. Korea

Jun 4, 2017

A town in western Japan has conducted an evacuation drill amid rising fear that a North Korean ballistic missile could hit Japanese soil.

Victims of the bombing: Parents, children, couple, friends

May 26, 2017

The bombing at a Manchester concert on Monday night claimed the lives of 22 people, many of them teenagers and their parents

Outspoken Chinese law professor, government critic, silenced

May 26, 2017

One of the Chinese government's most vocal, and dogged, critics will finally fall silent

Victims of the bombing: Parents, children, policewoman

May 25, 2017

The bombing at a Manchester concert on Monday night claimed the lives of 22 people, many of them teenagers and their parents

SoftBank sinks $500M into UK virtual reality startup

May 12, 2017

A British startup founded five years ago by Cambridge University computer science graduates has received $502 million from a Japanese tech firm to develop large-scale virtual reality projects

Liverpool gets ban from signing youth players

Apr 5, 2017

Liverpool has been fined 100,000 pounds ($125,000) and banned from signing youth-team players for at least a year after admitting to rule breaches in its attempt to recruit an academy prospect from Premier League rival Stoke

Japan Cabinet allows schools to study banned imperial order

Apr 4, 2017

Opposition politicians are criticizing Japan's Cabinet for allowing schools to study a 19th century imperial order that was banned after World War II for promoting militarism and emperor worship

Oxford wins boat race after WWII bomb removed from Thames

Apr 2, 2017

Oxford University reclaimed the boat race title from Cambridge on Sunday hours after police removed an unexploded World War II-era bomb near the start of the course on the River Thames