NTT DoCoMo Inc. appears set to finally join its domestic archrivals and start providing Apple Inc.'s iPhone, beginning with the latest version.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Barack Obama have agreed to cooperate toward improving in the situation in war-torn Syria during a bilateral meeting at the Group of 20 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia. During their hour-long discussion Thursday, Abe and Obama shared ...

What is the universe made of? Astronomers face an embarrassing conundrum: they don’t know what 95 percent of the universe is made of. Atoms, which form everything we see around us, only account for a measly 5 percent. Over the past 80 years it ...

General Motors Co. and Nissan Motor Co., the biggest sellers of rechargeable cars, posted record U.S. plug-in sales in August as their low-cost leases pushed battery-vehicle deliveries this year past last year’s tally. GM delivered 3,351 Chevrolet Volt plug-in sedans last month, up 18 ...

Hayao Miyazaki, the retiring czar of Japanese animation, said Friday that while he will no longer be at the forefront of creating feature-length animated movies, he will be a “freed man” pursuing his own interests as long as he can. “I know I made ...

In the thousands of years of Sudanese Nuba wrestling history, there had never been anything like it: a barefoot Japanese diplomat in a tight-fitting blue singlet stepping onto the sandy pitch to take on Sudan’s toughest fighter. Four times this year, Yasuhiro Murotatsu, 33, ...

Despite the U.S.-Russia standoff over the Syrian civil war and Moscow’s granting of temporary asylum of U.S. intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, they managed to sit down at the table of the Group of 20 summit Thursday to look at the fluctuating global economic picture. ...

During January 2011, Anabel Hernandez’s extended family held a party at a favorite cafe in the north of Mexico City. The gathering was to celebrate the birthday of Anabel’s niece. As one of the country’s leading journalists who rarely allows herself time off, she ...

The most important indicator of whether India will crash is the sweat on Raghuram Rajan’s brow. The new Reserve Bank of India governor arrived in Mumbai this week with a bang, announcing a slew of reforms to free up and expand the banking sector ...

Last month’s alleged chemical attack near Damascus has refocused attention on Syria’s 30-year-old biological weapons research and raised concerns about whether its regime could activate an effort to make a weapon. Syria’s bio-weapon program, which U.S. officials believe has been largely dormant since the ...

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd refused to concede defeat Friday despite a new poll showing he is heading for an election wipe-out as the media swung behind rival Tony Abbott. The Galaxy survey in the Sydney Daily Telegraph, a day before voters cast their ...

The wounds from his torture were still bleeding when Sri Lankan asylum seeker Sutha was picked up by the Australian Navy from a sinking boat in the Indian Ocean. He had spent 16 days at sea on a leaky vessel with 48 other men, ...

Pacific islanders challenged world leaders this week to act on climate change, warning that their low-lying atolls are close to becoming uninhabitable because of rising seas and increasingly severe floods, droughts and storm surges. “The Pacific is fighting for its survival. Climate change has ...

Michael Anop, a longtime Tokyo resident and entrepreneur, says he is “very much a people’s person,” as demonstrated by a definite talent for connecting with the right individuals to make things happen. As a teenager, he dreamed of a career working with young people ...

I live with Bigfoot. Don’t tell anyone though, or the media will be all over it. Bigfoot is not as hairy as you might expect. He’s not even as big as you’d expect. But he does have a big foot. Bigfoot is my husband. ...

Marvel Comics revolutionized the superhero genre in the 1960s with comic book characters such as Spider-Man, Thor, Iron-Man and The Hulk. Colorfully costumed adventurers who fought criminals and alien monsters primarily on the streets of New York City, and who, despite their incredible superpowers, ...

Critics savaged “Diana,” a biopic of the late princess of Wales who died in a Paris car crash 16 years ago, just hours after its world premiere Thursday. Lead actress Naomi Watts has already defended her involvement in the controversial film, which follows Diana’s ...

CSKA Moscow star Keisuke Honda was on target as Japan got back on the winning track with a comfortable 3-0 win over Guatemala in a friendly in Osaka on Friday night. Honda came off the bench to head Japan into a 50th-minute lead and ...

Masahiro Tanaka equaled the mark for Japan’s longest winning streak within a single season as he improved to 20-0 on Friday in the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles’ 3-2 win over the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters. The 24-year-old Eagles ace has won 24 consecutive decisions ...

Defending world and Olympic champion Kim Yu-na has selected the music for the programs she hopes will carry her to a second straight gold medal next year at the Sochi Games. Kim, who turned 23 on Thursday, will skate to “Send in the Clowns” ...

Stephen Drew hit a tying single off Mariano Rivera with two outs in the ninth inning, then Shane Victorino lined a go-ahead single in the 10th that sent the Boston Red Sox past the New York Yankees 9-8 on Thursday night. Down to their ...