The Latest on the return home of a Japanese journalist freed from more than three years of captivity in Syria (all times local):

The chairman of Lufthansa’s regional Air Dolomiti airline says the German carrier remains interested in Alitalia and that the government’s plan to take a stake has potential advantages.

A man has been arrested in a rape case that sat unsolved for nearly four decades until the case’s DNA evidence was tested last year.

An international human rights group says foreign fighters, including many Europeans, were responsible for carrying out the Islamic State group’s atrocities against minority Yazidis.

Jodi Ewart Shadoff shot 7-under 65 on Thursday to take a two-stroke lead after the first round of the LPGA Taiwan Championship.

Jaguar Land Rover is opening a new, $1.6 billion plant in Slovakia, the luxury car maker’s first in continental Europe.

A Cuban national living in Florida has been convicted of smuggling three women into the United States and forcing them to work at strip clubs to pay off the imposed debt.

A High Court on Thursday upheld an 18-month prison sentence for a woman convicted of blasphemy in Indonesia after complaining about the volume of a mosque’s loudspeakers.

It’s taken nearly seven years, but a Japanese leader is making an official visit to China for bilateral talks for the first time since late 2011.

Turkey has been focusing on a well in the garden of Saudi Arabia’s consulate as part of its investigation into the killing by Saudi officials of writer Jamal Khashoggi, whose body is still missing.