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Weather tracker: Fatal floods in Somalia and record heat in Tokyo
Dozens of people dead in east Africa as El Niño and Indian Ocean dipole cause increased rainfall during monsoo…
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GPS tracker sheds light on how birds ride out high-speed storms
One male rose to high altitude during a typhoon and was carried over Japan, looping around five timesStreaked …
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New island emerges off Japan after volcanic eruption – video
Japan has gained another island after an undersea volcanic eruption 1,200 km south of Tokyo created a new land…
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Japan gets a new island after undersea volcano erupts
New landmass about 100 metres across pops up above the waves near Iwoto island after eruptions began last mont…
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Ichiro Suzuki, 50, smashes school window with towering home run
Japanese great was instructing high school team in HokkaidoIchiro, 50, will be eligible for Baseball Hall of F…
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Power up: will Chinese financing be the saviour of the Japanese video game industry?
Japan is seen as the home of games, but the sector is struggling – and China is poaching its talent. It’s a po…
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Sicily, where billionaires get back to basics – by booking an entire city | Tobias Jones
Kaoru Nakajima’s lavish birthday party in Palermo follows Google’s annual summer ‘camps’ that seek to convey c…
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Osaka’s baseball underdogs hope one more win will lift curse of KFC
Many in the city have put the Hanshin Tigers’ lack of success down to an unusual Colonel Sanders-based superst…
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Scottish university returns tribal warrior skulls to Taiwanese Indigenous people
University of Edinburgh repatriates ancestral remains of Paiwan fighters in ‘milestone of transitional justice…