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Britain moved on July 17 to lower the voting age by two years to 16 in all U.K. elections, a major overhaul of the country’s democratic system that was welcomed by 16- and 17-year-olds interviewed by ...

Microsoft is teaming up with the French government to create a digital replica of Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral, France’s most visited monument, the U.S. tech company’s president, Brad Smith, said on ...

Time and memory often feel like tricksters. From my quiet room in Santiago, Chile — slowly becoming a nest — I look out the window, and my thoughts drift to rooms I’ve lived in before, to lives that ...

Tokyo is a leading market for tech talent alongside Beijing, the San Francisco Bay Area, Bengaluru, Paris, New York and Dublin, according to a new report, “Global Tech Markets: Top Talent Locations ...

There’s no such thing as a free lunch. What about free water? In Japan, customers may not give much thought to the iced water served free at restaurants and casual eateries. If you’re used to this, ...

The Japan Football Association is planning to join a bid to host the 2046 FIFA World Cup. If the bid is successful, Japan will host World Cup matches for the first time since the country co-hosted the ...

A Beijing district court on July 16 sentenced a Japanese employee of Astellas Pharma to three years and six months in prison for espionage. The employee, who is in his 60s, was detained by Chinese ...

Police in Saitama Prefecture have found tens of millions of yen in cash at the home of the wife of the now-defunct Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult’s founder Chizuo Matsumoto, who went by the name Shoko ...

Hundreds of people who have been displaced by fighting in Sudan gathered July 21 at the central train station in Cairo to begin a free journey home. The Egyptian government is funding train rides to ...

A private spaceflight featuring the first astronauts in more than 40 years from India, Poland and Hungary came to a close on July 15 with a Pacific splashdown. Their SpaceX capsule undocked from the ...