No one has more riding on Sprint Corp.'s $26.5 billion sale to T-Mobile US Inc. than SoftBank Group and its founder, Masayoshi Son. Sprint has been going broke for more than a decade, and the wireless carrier's executives have told regulators the company faces "serious ...

Talks between the U.S. and China to resolve their yearlong trade standoff appeared to be on life support Monday, with Beijing struggling to respond to a pair of tweets by President Donald Trump that threaten an escalation of tariffs by the end of the ...

The 30 Percent Club, founded in Britain, recently launched a Japanese chapter after making a major contribution to boosting female representation on company boards in 13 economies. The local version aims to achieve 10 percent female representation on the boards of 100 major companies listed ...

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. overpaid for part of venerable food giant Kraft Heinz Co. and failed to realize the potential of Amazon.com Inc., snapping up stock in the internet retailer only after it had already risen by thousands of percent. That was the assessment by Warren ...

Forty-one people including at least two children are believed to have died when a Russian passenger plane made an emergency landing and was engulfed in flames at Moscow's busiest airport Sunday, investigators said. Dramatic footage shared on social media showed Aeroflot's Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft ...

Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah on Sunday extended a moratorium on the death penalty to incoming legislation prohibiting gay sex, seeking to temper a global backlash led by celebrities such as George Clooney and Elton John. The small Southeast Asian country sparked an outcry when it ...

Canada is leaning on the United States to help settle a dispute with China, which has started to block imports of vital Canadian commodities amid a dispute over a detained Huawei executive. In a sign of increasing frustration at what it sees as a lackluster ...

Boeing Co. knew months before a deadly 737 Max crash that a cockpit alert wasn't working the way the company had represented to buyers of the jetliner. But the planemaker didn't tell airlines or the Federal Aviation Administration of the problem with the warning light ...

Donald Trump looked to forestall perhaps the most keenly awaited event in Washington in decades — a congressional hearing with special counsel Robert Mueller — saying "Bob Mueller should not testify. No redos for the Dems!" The president's comment, in a pair of Twitter postings ...

A dozen rifle-toting soldiers guarded a small community hall as day broke in the eastern Sri Lankan town of Batticaloa on Sunday morning. Around 9 a.m. local time — roughly the same time a suicide bomber killed 29 of their fellow parishioners at the evangelical ...

Kim Jong Un oversaw a live-fire military exercise Saturday that potentially included North Korea's first ballistic missile launch since 2017, challenging U.S. President Donald Trump's bottom line in nuclear talks. Kim watched as "large-caliber, long-range multiple-rocket launchers and tactical guided weapons" were fired off North ...

The $1.6 trillion in U.S. student debt may not pose a direct threat to the economy, but it's causing anguish that goes far beyond financial concerns for the people who owe it. One in 15 borrowers has considered suicide due to their school loans, according ...

Andrew Albers allowed nine runs in 1⅔ innings on Monday as the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks cranked out a 9-6 win over the Orix Buffaloes. Albers (1-2) gave up 10 hits and three home runs at Yafuoku Dome before he was yanked in the second. Alfredo Despaigne, ...

In the history of Japanese top-flight men's hoop circuits, there have been certain teams who got extra motivation from playing against each other. That seems to currently be the case for the Chiba Jets Funabashi and Tochigi Brex. There may not be any hatred or ill ...

Japan teammates Yuto Nagatomo and Shinji Kagawa faced off Sunday in one of Turkish soccer's biggest grudge matches, with Nagatomo's Galatasaray emerging as a 2-0 winner over Kagawa's Besiktas in the Istanbul derby. The win at Turk Telekom Arena took Galatasaray to the top of ...

Kenta Maeda exited with his team trailing on Sunday but avoided taking a loss despite the Los Angeles Dodgers suffering an 8-5 walk-off defeat against the San Diego Padres. Maeda yielded four runs on three walks and three hits, including an early home run to ...

Distance runner Yuki Kawauchi and his fiancee Yuko Mizuguchi both prevailed at the Vancouver Marathon on Sunday. Kawauchi won the men's race in 2 hours, 15 minutes and 1 second, while his soon-to-be wife topped the women's field with a time of 2:41.28. The pair fell ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday blasted the result of the Kentucky Derby horse race, saying the controversial disqualification of first-finisher Maximum Security could only happen in "these days of political correctness." "The Kentuky (sic) Derby decision was not a good one. It was a ...