The most famous attraction is Takachiho Gorge – a deep chasm carved out by several explosions from the nearby Mount Aso, ...

Travel specialists weigh in with the most underrated places to visit, along with can't-miss activities in each locale and the ...

The mysterious balls that forced the closure of several beaches in Sydney last week were found to contain saturated fatty acids, E. coli and faecal bacteria, authorities say. Sydney's Northern ...

NZ Herald's Best Beach competition is back for 2025, and we need you to tell us where it is. Here's all you need to know about how to nominate and vote for your favourite. Video / Carson Bluck The ...

Atomic bomb survivors and others have gathered in southwestern Japan's Nagasaki City and urged the government to take part in the United Nations treaty banning nuclear weapons. About 120 people ...

Shigemitsu Tanaka takes a small cream-coloured towel out of a bag, carefully unfolds it and reveals a kind of flattened blackish stone. “It’s not a stone, it’s a piece of tile from a roof in Nagasaki.

While everyone loves a good beach day, our coastlines are changing — and not in a good way. A new study, summarized by Down to Earth, shows that one-third of the world's sandy coastlines have been ...

The beaches will be closed “until further notice” as the EPA works to identify the cause of bizarre debris that has washed ashore. The marble-sized balls of debris washed up on Tuesday ...

Nine Sydney beaches have been closed after the discovery of numerous marble-sized balls. The debris, said to be a combination of white and grey in colour, appeared along the shoreline in the city ...

Northern Beaches Council said it was working on safely removing the matter. Most of the samples of the ball-shaped debris were the size of marbles, with some larger, it said in a statement.

Months after mysterious black balls forced the closure of some of Sydney's most famous beaches, small marble-like debris has begun washing up on the city's shores again. The balls - this time grey ...