News Hour: China launched two astronauts into space on Monday, official media said, on a mission to its orbiting laboratory as the country works towards setting up its own space station. The Shenzhou-11 spacecraft blasted off...

News Hour: Oviously looks aren’t everything. At least, that’s what one Japanese dating service is trying to prove – by requiring participants in speed dating sessions to wear white surgical masks. “In order to achieve marriage,...

News Hour: When Prince Hisahito was born in 2006, ending a 41-year drought in imperial male heirs, Japan’s government gladly dropped proposals that women might head the world’s oldest monarchy, but a decade later the little...

News Hour: Villagers nestled high in the Indian Himalayas are grappling with lifestyle changes in the world’s fastest-growing major economy that are eroding their age-old Buddhist culture but opening up new opportunities. People have long wrested...

News Hour: Britain’s Duchess of Cambridge embarked on her first royal solo trip overseas on Tuesday, traveling to the Netherlands. https://youtu.be/ET7-xR3l41w Greeted by children waving Dutch and British flags, Prince William’s wife Kate visited The Hague’s...

News Hour: Romania’s government said on Wednesday it would go ahead with the purchase of an acclaimed sculpture by modernist giant Constantin Brancusi despite the failure of a public subscription to raise its share of the...

News Hour: Restructuring loss-making carrier Kenya Airways will take a month, the government said on last Wednesday, appealing to pilots to withdraw a strike notice and join discussions. Tourism Minister Najib Balala, who sits in a...

News Hour: India’s Virat Kohli continued to torment New Zealand with the bat, hitting an unbeaten 85 to secure a six-wicket victory with nearly 17 overs to spare in the first one-day international at Dharamsala on...

News Hour: Serena Williams has withdrawn from the season-ending WTA Finals in Singapore later this month citing a persistent shoulder injury, the world number two said on Monday. The 22-times grand slam singles champion has played...

News Hour: The 15-year-old daughter of U.S. Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay died on Sunday after being caught in an exchange of gunfire between two vehicles outside of a Kentucky restaurant, police said. After the shooting in...