Japan

North Korea has launched another missile over Japan, a day after it threatened to “sink” the country and turn the US “into ashes and darkness”.

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will lay the foundation stone for India's first bullet train in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state this week, in a tightening of ties just days after New Delhi ended a dangerous military confrontation with China.

A strong earthquake of magnitude 8.1 has struck in the Pacific off the southern coast of Mexico, killing at least three people, reported BBC. 

The epicentre was about 87km (54 miles) south-west of the town of Pijijiapan and at a depth of 70km, the United States Geological Survey said.

Seamstresses, miners and employees of a hypermarket are protesting in front of the National Assembly, reported Nova TV.

Organizer is the Autonomous Workers' Union.

Britain and Japan will pledge closer cooperation on Thursday on defense, cyber security and counter-terrorism as Prime Minster Theresa May looks to strengthen relations with one of her closest allies ahead of Brexit, reported Reuters.

After an increase in teacher salaries of 15% in September, the salaries of those employed in secondary education will be upward indexed by another 20-25% in 2018.

This is what Menda Stoyanova, the chairman of the parliamentary budget committee, told the National TV.

The aim of the Cabinet - doubling the teacher's salaries in three years, she added.

The Japanese soldiers jumped out of the jeeps, unloaded the antitank missiles and dropped to the ground. Within minutes, they aimed and fired, striking hypothetical targets nearly a half-mile away.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Aug. 15 sent a cash donation to a controversial war shrine as the country marked the anniversary of its defeat in World War II.

Yasukuni Shrine honors about 2.5 million dead, mostly Japanese, who perished in the country's wars since the late 19th century.

Japan's economy grew 1 percent in the April-June period, notching up its sixth straight quarter of growth and its longest economic expansion in over a decade, government data showed on Aug. 14.

Japan celebrated the 72nd anniversary of the Hiroshima nuclear bombing, the world's agencies said on Sunday.