Japan

MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 0.53 per cent, while Japan’s Nikkei rose 0.54 per cent.

India had made an impressive start to the tournament, thrashing Malaysia 6-0 in their opening match.

With the majority of the attacks coming from the Indian team, the Japanese sat back and looked to attack on the counter.

Mount Asama last erupted in June 2015. There were no injuries in the small eruption.

It is the first step in what researchers caution is a very long path towards a future.

As the temperature continues to rise, the agency and weather officials have warned people to take preventative measures against heatstroke.

Tensions spiked between Iran and the West after Iranian commandos seized a British-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf.

The 24-year-old Sindhu, after losing first game against Ohori comeback stronger and won the two consecutive games 21-10, 21-13.

Japan’s laws on LGBT+ issues are relatively liberal compared with many Asian countries, with homosexual sex legal since 1880.

The Indian Navy this year took part in an annual exercise series with the US Navy and JMSDF.

The global plan includes the 4,800 job cuts announced in May and will mostly be at factories overseas with low utilisation rates.

It was worst mass killing in country with one of world’s lowest crime rates since suspected arson attack in Tokyo killed 44 people in 2001.

At least 33 feared dead after suspected arson attack on Japanese animation studio.

Japanese media reported the fire might have been set near the front door, forcing people to find other ways out.

there were questions over how so many people could have died in a country where fire safety is taken very seriously.

Brent crude futures were up USD 1.17, or 1.9 per cent, at USD 63.10 a barrel by 0505 GMT.

Police said the fierce blaze appeared to have been started deliberately but there was no immediate information on a possible motive.

Police said that a 41-year-old man poured what appeared to be petrol around the studio and set it on fire.

The successful touchdown was greeted with cheering and applause in the JAXA mission control room, with officials grinning and shaking hands.

Oil prices are being pressured by ongoing worries about demand as the US-China trade war.