News Hour: A Hawaiian Airlines plane made an emergency landing in Tokyo on early Monday, bursting its tyres and forcing the closure of one runway and the cancellation of several other flights, although no one was...

News Hour: Turkish authorities pressed on Sunday with a ruthless crackdown against suspects in the failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with 6,000 people detained as he vowed to stamp out the “virus” of the...

News Hour: Seventeen labourers have died and about a dozen others are fighting for their lives in northern India after drinking toxic homemade liquor, police said on Sunday, in the latest incident of alcohol poisoning in...

News Hour: A 5.0 magnitude earthquake shook Tokyo and large ares of eastern Japan on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties, reports BSS. The quake hit...

News Hour: A man claiming to have escaped North Korea was being held under police protection after he was found wandering in a city in western Japan, local media reported on Sunday, reports BSS. The man...

News Hour: Thousands took to the streets of Turkey on Saturday in support of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after authorities crushed a military coup that claimed at least 265 lives, reports BSS. After facing down the...

News Hour: France has called on young “patriots” to join the reserves following an IS-claimed truck attack in Nice which killed 84 and prompted tough questions over security failures, reports BSS. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve made...

News Hour: Heavy rains and flash floods in Sudan’s war-torn region of Darfur killed nine people on Saturday, the official SUNA news agency reported. The deaths occurred in the town of El-Fasher, the capital of the state...

News Hour: The United States warned its citizens against travel to Turkey on Saturday after authorities crushed a military coup that claimed at least 265 lives, reports BSS. “The US Department of State warns US citizens...

News Hour: The internet and sports magazines are full of motivational material with photos of and information about fitness, cross-fit and power-lifting stars. People long to get slim, buffed-up, healthy bodies. They visit gyms and work...