The women, now in their 60s and 70s, say their ordeals were a violation of human rightsA court in Japan has rejected demands for damages from two women who were forcibly sterilised four decades ago under a now-defunct eugenics law designed to prevent t…

Young children were waiting for school bus when they were attacked by man, witnesses sayTwo people have died and 16 others, including more than a dozen schoolgirls, have been injured after a man armed with knives went on a rampage at a crowded bus stop…