North Korea has fired a missile over Japan, putting further strain on tensions between the isolated dictatorship and its regional neighbours.
Festival-goers were treated to the sight of a record-breaking 460kg firework as the finale of a huge display during the 13th Kounosuhanabitaikai festival in Konosu City, near Tokyo.
A 15-year-old schoolgirl has been arrested in Japan on suspicion of strangling and beheading her classmate.
Japanese fans have put down the gauntlet to other fans around the world for the title of best behaved and most welcomed back after photographs have appeared online of them clearing up the stands before they left.
A Russian fighter jet intercepted a US surveillance plane in waters off Russia’s east coast in April, flying unusually close…