NEW YORK (AP) — Jaylen Brown and Giannis Antetokounmpo will play homecoming games a week apart in January. The 2026-27 NBA schedule was released Thursday, Aug. 13, setting the dates for the two former NBA Finals MVPs to return to face the teams that traded them this summer. The schedules for...
Tokyo (Jiji Press) -- Japan 's Environment Ministry has launched a demonstration experiment to help protect elderly people from heatstroke by utilizing artificial intelligence and sensors to encourage them to use air conditioners properly. The initiative aims to identify heatstroke risks...
KUMAMOTO (Jiji Press) -- Temperatures reached 40.3 degrees Celsius in the city of Kumamoto on Monday, topping 40 degrees for the first time on record in the namesake southwestern Japan prefecture, adding to the plight of local residents hit by a powerful earthquake last Tuesday. Elsewhere in the...
ROME (AP) — The Mediterranean of our ancestors is no more. Scientists say climate change, caused mainly by burning oil, coal and gas, is making the Mediterranean Sea hotter, bringing hundreds of new and invasive fish species that decimate indigenous populations. As biodiversity diminishes,...
TOKYO (AP) — An elderly woman who developed heat stroke while taking shelter in a car is the latest fatality from a powerful earthquake that struck Japan’s southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto last week, officials said Sunday as concerns over heat-related illnesses grow in an area that is also...
Philippine Navy (PN) launched on Tuesday, July 28, an investigation into the death of an officer candidate who suffered a medical emergency after completing a training run at the Naval Education, Training and Doctrine Command (NETDC) in San Antonio, Zambales. The PN identified the trainee as...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Temperatures hit sweltering highs across much of the central United States on Saturday as forecasters warned that dangerously hot weather from Dallas to North Dakota would push into next week, with roughly 80 million people facing heat advisories. A heat dome, where atmospheric...
TOKYO (Jiji Press)--Japan 's Fire and Disaster Management Agency said Wednesday that 10,857 people were transported to hospitals by ambulance for heatstroke in Japan in the week through Sunday, up 2.4 times from the preceding week. The weekly number exceeded 10,000 for the first time since...
TOKYO (Jiji Press)--Temperatures exceeded 40 degrees Celsius in central Japan on Tuesday, marking the first "kokushobi," or cruelly hot day, this year, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. The city of Tajimi, Gifu Prefecture, recorded 40.3 degrees, followed by the city of Toyota in the...
MIAMI (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo was watching Lionel Messi play in the World Cup semifinals this week, and a realization struck him. Messi, to him, is greatness. And Antetokounmpo wants to follow Messi 's path. Antetokounmpo got his welcome-to-Miami ceremony Thursday, July 16, at the team...
Tokyo (Jiji Press)--With summer set to start in full, an initiative to grow vines such as bitter melon and morning glory to gain cooling effects without the use of electricity is drawing attention in Japan. Nonprofit organization Midori no Curtain Oendan in Tokyo 's Itabashi Ward has promoted...
TOKYO (Jiji Press)--Organizers are changing schedules for summer festivals and fireworks displays in Japan, hoping to protect people from the intense summer heat and heavy rain. The Sagajoka Sakaenokuni Matsuri festival in the southwestern city of Saga was brought forward by over two months in...
