The 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo’s visitor count of 25.57 million came in first among this year’s top 10 Japanese news stories.

Japan's cabinet on Friday approved a record 122.31 trillion yen ($783 billion) draft initial budget for fiscal 2026, reflecting Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's expansionary fiscal stance to spur ...

In terms of major allocations, JPY 39.06 trillion has been earmarked for social welfare spending, the largest component of the budget, partly due to an upward revision of medical fees. Defence-related ...

The banks of Llangollen Canal collapsed at around 4am on Monday morning and water flooded out, pulling a huge 160ft wide ...

A sinkhole in a British canal swallowed several boats, causing more than 10 people to be rescued. There were no injuries ...

Citing "subtantial damage" to its domestic dairy sector, China imposed hefty tariffs on EU producers with France and the ...

Fears of a recession and warnings that President Trump's own policies would trigger economic disruption haven't materialised the way many expected in 2025. But Carsten Brzeski from ING told Reuters ...

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Turkey's Konya, Karaman, and Aksaray provinces, with Konya as the most affected. Experts say the increased number of sinkholes could be due to climate change, drought, and irrigation water usage.

Hundreds of sinkholes have appeared in a drought-plagued region of Turkey, with new ones collapsing into the Earth across the parched landscape. A recent assessment by Turkey's Disaster and Emergency ...

A sinkhole formed near a water repair leak in downtown Austin on Thursday, November 20. Austin Water and the City of Austin confirmed to MySA that the sinkhole was not related to the leak repair at ...

After reports of two separate sinkholes in downtown Austin Thursday morning, city officials confirmed that one was a sinkhole and the other was just a regular ol’ hole, dug (on purpose) by a crew ...