In Japan more is at stake than money in the mammoth takeover battle for 7-Eleven, the world's biggest convenience chain, by Canadian retail giant Alimentation Couche-Tard.

Southeast Asian leaders met for talks with a Myanmar junta representative at a regional summit Wednesday as they try to kickstart faltering diplomatic efforts to broker an end to the country's civil ...

In the mountains of northeast Peru, a group of women beekeepers have plucked millions of bees from the jaws of death and ...

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The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded Friday, a ray of light in a dark year for world peace, with the International Court of ...

The Israeli military said it intercepted two projectiles fired from Lebanon on Wednesday shortly after air raid sirens blared in and around the coastal town of Caesarea, south of Haifa.

The Japanese owner of 7-Eleven said Wednesday it had received a "revised" takeover offer from  Canadian rival Alimentation Couche-Tard, after rejecting a preliminary bid that was worth around $40 ...

The Russian army said on Wednesday that it had shot down 47 Ukrainian drones overnight, nearly half of them over the Bryansk border region.

Sherlock Holmes fans are being promised a most authentic depiction of the fictional detective, with the restoration of a ...

Shares in the Japanese company that owns 7-Eleven surged on Wednesday following a report that Canada's Alimentation Couche-Tard (ACT) had hiked its buyout offer for the firm by almost 20 percent.

Shanghai stocks tumbled more than four percent at the open Wednesday after racking up big gains a day earlier following a week-long break, but Hong Kong clawed back some of the losses of more than ...

An 18-year-old Nepali mountaineer on Wednesday broke the record for the youngest person to summit all 14 of the world's 8,000-metre peaks, his team said.