Life as a yakuza mobster is getting so hard that some are resorting to shoplifting food. Two members of an organized crime gang were arrested for allegedly trying to steal grocery items worth ¥76,120 ($683) at a mall in Nagoya, police said on Wednesday. ...

Two men were charged on Monday for allegedly damaging the corpse of an acquaintance with an alkaline substance in 2015, the police said. The suspects allegedly used a chemical — likely sodium hydroxide — to dissolve the body of Kazumasa Iwamoto, 47, in May ...

A Brazilian soccer club brushed aside a storm of criticism Tuesday to sign a goalkeeper convicted for murdering his girlfriend, whose body was fed to the dogs. Bruno Fernandes, 32, was presented before reporters at a hastily arranged news conference in the southeastern city ...

A 27-year-old man from Tokyo’s Sumida Ward has been arrested for allegedly forcing an acquaintance who resembles him to report to police in his place over speeding charges, police said Wednesday. Masashi Nishiyama, a former operator of a shop that provided sexual services, was ...

The Mie Prefectural Police arrested a truck driver from Iga on Thursday on suspicion of threatening a delivery firm employee with a chain saw. The police said Kazuki Hasegawa, 27, posted a YouTube video of him threatening an employee at Yamato Transport Co.’s delivery ...

Egypt has ordered the detention for 15 days of an Al-Jazeera journalist accused of incitement and fabricating news, a prosecution official said Sunday. It was the latest move against the Qatar-based broadcaster which Egypt accuses of supporting the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood of ousted President ...

The Kanagawa Prefectural Police arrested a 55-year-old Kawasaki man Wednesday on suspicion of projecting a laser beam on a Maritime Self-Defense Force jet in flight. Police allege that Kazuhiko Date of Kawasaki’s Asao Ward used a laser pointer on the night of July 19 ...