This summer, temperatures in many cities across Japan have soared above 40 degrees Celsius (104°F).
Police said the fires were likely started to clear plantation land for farming.
A local government office building, a convenience store and railway tracks were among the properties damaged in the series of attacks.
The country targets high-income status by 2045, but faces a demographic hurdle, with over-65s expected to outnumber children.
The stowaway was rescued only after he was spotted while the truck stopped at an intersection.
The country’s largest latiao producer saw 117 million yuan (US$17 million) in overseas sales last year, up by nearly 50 per cent from 2024.
Over 5,000 people are living in temporary shelters after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck eastern Indonesia.
Local communities are breaking a centuries-old taboo that had maintained peaceful coexistence with crocodiles, after a boom in the reptile population fuelled a surge in attacks on people.
The storm travelled more than 6,000km (3,730 miles) across the Pacific Ocean and held its strength to become one of China’s most significant weather events in years.
The eclipse travelled through parts of Greenland and Iceland, before arcing across the Atlantic Ocean towards northern Spain.
Some areas in the northern Philippines saw a month’s worth of rain in only nine days.
The attack comes days after deadly school shooting that has renewed debate about gun control in Thailand.
China’s most powerful typhoon of the year has forced the evacuation of over 1 million people and led to thousands of flight cancellations.
The junta-chief-turned-president pledged to improve ties with Asean despite the country’s leaders being barred from bloc’s summits since the 2021 coup.
The video is described as evidence of Russian ‘drone safaris’ believed to be hunting down civilians in Ukraine.
Promoting itself as the world’s first ‘sports-value-ecosystem’, the enterprise entered Hong Kong last year claiming assets of more than US$1 billion.
Newly released photographs are among the few images that show the democratic leader since she was detained by the military in 2021.
The K-pop group had been widely expected to be nominated for major awards, including Album of the Year and Song of the Year, before withdrawing on Wednesday.
The death toll from the magnitude 7.1 quake has risen to 35, as rescue teams continue to search for missing people.
The woman was being escorted out of the venue by security staff after she was accused of cutting into a queue.
El Nino-related drought has made water harder to find in the huge province of Central Kalimantan on the island of Borneo.
The second storey of the Aeon Mall Kumamoto collapsed as the magnitude 7.1 earthquake shook Kyushu island.
Bantargebang, Indonesia’s largest landfill – which stands as high as a 20-storey building, will be closed August 1 under a new national policy on open dumping.
Club organisers, who have since fled Bali, are blacklisted from entering Indonesia.
One in seven of the Rohingya people who headed to sea hoping to escape poor conditions of the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh was reported missing or dead in 2025.
The UN confirmed many passengers were Rohingya refugees fleeing camps in Bangladesh.
The leader of the group was sentenced to seven years in prison, after being found guilty of sending at least 12 babies to Singapore.
The conflict came hours before the two countries’ top diplomats are set to discuss the disputed area at the Asean regional summit on Wednesday.
An estimated 300,000 Indonesians work on foreign fishing vessels, making them one of the top contributors of labour for the global fishing industry.
Several people remain missing in the Indian-administered region of Jammu and Kashmir.
