Carmakers will be big customers for next-generation telecoms networks, helping to justify investment in 5G, but need to be more innovative if the technology is to take off, Spain's SEAT said on Monday.

Flexible and folding formats framed the future of smartphones this week as manufacturers focused on new forms in an effort to jolt the market out of uniformity and re-invigorate sales.

The international terminal of Haneda airport in Tokyo will be renamed Terminal 3 in March 2020 as part of large-scale renovations to cope with an increase in international flights ahead of the Olympics and Paralympics, sources familiar with the matter said Tuesday.

Japan's antitrust watchdog will question Amazon Japan over its plan to offer reward points to all products sold on its site, suspecting small merchants will be forced to shoulder the cost of the points, sources close to the matter said Tuesday.

Flexible and folding formats framed the future of smartphones this week as manufacturers focused on new forms in an effort to jolt the market out of uniformity and re-invigorate sales.

Starbucks on Thursday will open the Starbucks Reserve Roastery Tokyo, a four-story tribute to premium coffee quality, innovation and human connection. This will be the fifth Roastery globally, reaffirming the company's 23-year commitment to Japan.

U.S. President Donald Trump hailed North Korea's "awesome" potential on Wednesday and said its leader, Kim Jong Un, wanted to do something great, hours before they were due to meet to try to break a stalemate over the North's nuclear weapons.

In a world faced with the conundrum of mountains of waste and obesity for some and dire shortages and malnutrition for others the future of food is a main dish on today's global menu.

Golf returned to the Olympics three years ago in Rio de Janeiro after a 112-year absence. But few play golf in Brazil, which kicked up problems from the start when a top notch course had to be built amid protests from environmentalists and ensuing court cases and charges of corruption.

Police arrested Monday a 22-year-old man for allegedly stabbing to death the head of a foster home in Tokyo where the man used to live, with the suspect saying he wanted revenge against the facility.

The most senior Catholic cleric ever charged with child sex abuse has been convicted of molesting two choirboys moments after celebrating mass, dealing a new blow to the Catholic hierarchy's credibility after a year of global revelations of abuse and cover up.

When I graduated from college and went to work for a consulting firm in Chicago, for the first week I was asked to sit next to someone who had worked there for a couple of years in the same role, who methodically took me through everything I needed to know in order to do my job.