About 1,500 soccer fans watching the Champions League final on a large screen in the Italian city of Turin were injured on Saturday night after a firecracker, which was mistaken for gunshots or an explosion, provoked a stampede.

A man who fled a station office was found dead beside a building in Tokyo on Friday. He had been detained for groping a female passenger while sitting next to her on a train.

A 62-year-old woman was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of investment fraud after being extradited from Thailand. An acquaintance says she is known for her flashy outfit and is skilled at manipulating men.

Police searched a high school in eastern Japan on Friday over the deaths of eight people in an avalanche during mountaineering training for possible charges of professional negligence.

Malaysian police are investigating the assassination of the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Two women attacked him with poison at an airport on Monday.

A huge fire that started at a ramen shop was fanned by high winds, spreading to at least 140 buildings on Thursday in a small city on the Japan Sea coast.

A longtime friend of the South Korean President was detained late on Monday over allegations that she had manipulated state affairs from behind the scenes.

A 28-year-old naturalized US citizen born in Afghanistan, wanted in connection with weekend bombings in New York and New Jersey, was arrested on Monday following a shootout with police.

The New York City mayor said that the explosion, which injured 29 people in Manhattan on Saturday night, was intentional, but that there was no evidence of a link to terrorism.

Tokyo Police are hunting a man who slashed nine women aged 18 to 24 with a blade in a packed pool at an amusement park in Tokyo on Sunday.