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Tokyo — Nearly 60 women lawmakers in Japan, including Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, have submitted a petition calling for more toilets in the parliament building to match their improved representation.Although the number of women politicians...

Local media outlet Peru21 reports that "hundreds" of tourists remain at the scene awaiting evacuation, which has been "hampered" by difficult terrain around the crash site.At least 20 of the injured are in a serious condition, a health official...

Steven McIntoshEntertainment reporterGetty ImagesReid said her Parkinson's made it hard for her to write "because I can barely control a mouse"."I can't type for very long," she continued. "It's hard for me to sit in a chair for very...

Mali and Burkina Faso say they will bar US citizens from entering their countries in response to a similar move by the Trump administration.The two West African states were recently placed under full entry restrictions under US President Donald...

Hundreds of thousands of people travelled from across Bangladesh to the capital Dhaka on Wednesday to pay their final respects to former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia.Zia, who was the country's first female prime minister, died on Tuesday from a...

Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of former US President John F Kennedy, has died aged 35.Her family announced her death in a social media post shared by the John F Kennedy Library Foundation, writing: "Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this...

AFP via Getty ImagesLai, a UK citizen, is the most prominent person to be charged under the NSL, introduced in 2020 in response to massive pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.Beijing defends the law as necessary to maintain stability in...

Ben MilneandJames Percy,BBC NewsBBCThe first non-European Pope in more than 1,000 years, the Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, a soul legend and one of the world's most famous designers - here are some of the well-known...

Thailand has released 18 Cambodian soldiers that were captured in July during deadly border clashes as part of a ceasefire the two countries agreed to on Saturday.The handover was delayed by a day over Thai concerns over alleged violations...

EPAImages of massive crowds of travellers stranded at London St Pancras International flooded social media following Tuesday's power outage. A photograph shared with the BBC by a train driver for Eurostar appeared to show overhead electrical cables strewn across...