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The latest investment in Vietnam will be used on a range of services as well as expanding transport, food and payment offerings

Veteran boxing and NBA reporter Elie Seckbach believes Mayweather vs. Diaz will break records in combat sports.

From matcha ice cream to cake and chocolate, producers of traditional Japanese green tea are capitalising on growing global interest in its flavour -- even as demand for the drink declines at home.At Shigehiko Suzuki's tea shop in central Japan, adorned with a traditional "noren" drape, the customers are flooding in but more to scoop up gelato or cake than to sip the bright-green tea.In 1998, Suzuki's company Marushichi Seicha started making powdered matcha green tea -- traditionally made using a bamboo whisk in a tiny room. The firm now exports 30 tonnes of green tea to the US, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

Japanese authorities regularly urge people to take evacuation orders seriously, particularly after disastrous heavy rains last summer in Japan's west killed more than 200 people

It was second time lucky on Tuesday as an unmanned spacecraft carrying Russia's first humanoid robot docked at the International Space Station following a failed attempt over the weekend."Sorry for the delay. Got stuck in traffic. Am ready to carry on with work," the robot's Twitter account said in a jokey first tweet from space.Copying human movements and designed to help with high-risk tasks, the lifesize robot, Fedor, is due to stay on the ISS until September 7.

Piech's reign ended when he went to war in 2015 with long-time confidant, CEO Martin Winterkorn, with whom he is seen here, and lost the support of key supervisory board players

Scientists are currently trying to collect solid evidence of lighting in Venus’ atmosphere. However, despite numerous missions from various space agencies, scientists are still yet to prove the existence of lighting in the alien planet.

With the number of asteroids zipping past Earth on a regular basis, it’s only a matter of time before the planet gets hit by a massive space rock. Depending on certain factors, an asteroid impact on Earth could trigger a global extinction-level event.

Gennady Golovkin would "absolutely" fight a famous Japanese boxer and talk about space satellites than Canelo Alvarez rematch.

NASA has spotted an asteroid that’s currently headed for Earth. According to the space agency’s Center for Near Earth Objects (CNEOS), the approaching asteroid is about as long as two semitrailers.

Trump let slip he'd like to stage the 2020 G7 summit at one of his own golf resorts, the Doral, near Miami

The G7 has agreed to spend 20 million euros ($22 million) on the Amazon, mainly to send fire-fighting aircraft to tackle the huge blazes engulfing many parts of the world's biggest rainforest, the presidents of France and Chile announced Monday.The G7 club -- comprising Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States -- has also agreed to support a medium-term reforestation plan which will be unveiled at the UN in September, France's Emmanuel Macron and Chile's Sebastian Pinera said at the G7 summit in southwest France.

Higher open likely for Wall Street Monday after the important U.S. stock futures surged Monday morning erasing the deficits of previous sessions.

US President Donald Trump said Monday he had agreed to the Iranian foreign minister flying in for a G7 summit and insisted he was not seeking regime change in Tehran -- a change of tone that could lower tensions.Mohammad Javad Zarif made a surprise appearance at the summit in Biarritz on Sunday for talks with French President Emmanuel Macron, who is seeking to broker a deal between Iran and the United States.

South Korea first staged the drills in 1986 as a semi-annual event normally held in June and December.

President Trump welcomed the Chinese offer, which came after Asian markets cracked Monday and its currency plummeted to an 11-year low.

Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather reportedly will face each other once again in Japan.

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US President Donald Trump agreed on a major trade deal

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US President Donald Trump agreed to a deal in principle freeing up bilateral trade

Kim said North Korea needed to keep stepping up weapons development for 'resolutely frustrating the ever-mounting military threats', KCNA reported

Talks between Washington and Beijing on ending what President Trump says is a massively unfair trade relationship have hit a brick wall