Donald Keene, a distinguished scholar of Japanese literature, has died at the age of 96. He died of heart failure on Sunday morning in a hospital in Tokyo.
Voters in Okinawa are casting ballots in a referendum on the ongoing land reclamation work to relocate a US military base within the southwestern Japanese prefecture.
Venezuela's political opposition has initiated efforts to move humanitarian aid into the South American country from its neighbors -- Colombia and Brazil.
People who were sexually abused as children by clergy members of the Catholic Church have rallied near the Vatican, where church leaders are discussing ways to prevent clerical sex abuse. The protestors demanded that perpetrators be held accountable.
Three British Cabinet ministers are calling for the country to delay its exit from the European Union if no deal is agreed in Parliament in the next few days.
