Rescue workers in Japan say it could be three months before they recover a body of a truck driver whose vehicle has been stuck in a giant sinkhole for more than two weeks. The truck plunged into ...

Image: Rescuers work to free a man after he fell into a sinkhole in Japan. Pic: Kyodo via AP At the beginning of the year, a rescue mission was launched in Yashio, Japan, after a truck and its ...

Though it recovered in the second half of the year, Japan’s economy barely grew in 2024 as a depreciated yen fueled inflation and strained households. By River Akira Davis and Hisako Ueno ...

By Jin Yu Young and Hisako Ueno Hisako Ueno reported from Tokyo. Japan’s largest wildfire in more than three decades was burning through a forested area of a small coastal city on Sunday after ...

STILL A LITTLE WINDY, BUT THEN THINGS SETTLE Firefighters responded to a house on Center Square Road near Glenbrook Road in West Earl Township just after 8 a.m. A chimney caught fire and spread to ...

Japan is fighting a forest fire that has damaged dozens of homes and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate in a northeastern coastal city. The fire has burned about 2,100 hectares (5,190 acres ...

A massive sinkhole that has swallowed up parts of a Surrey village and forced the evacuation of 30 properties has been making headlines this week. The sinkhole appeared in Godstone High Street on ...

Corporate and Shared Services MMC Kholofelo Morodi says should this fail, they will be forced to dig into their already stretched budget.

It has been one month since a sinkhole appeared at the intersection of a prefectural road in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture. A passing truck fell into the hole when it appeared, and the 74-year-old ...

In recent weeks, huge sinkholes, several metres deep, have led the municipal government to declare a state of emergency. Some 1,200 people out of a population of 55,000 are at risk of having their ...