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Oil prices plunged in Asia on April 18, pushing energy firms and regional stock markets lower after the collapse of talks among the world's top oil producers intended to ease a global supply glut.

Hopes that the talks in Doha on Sunday would result in an output cap helped the black gold climb to 2016 highs last week, having approached 13-year lows just months ago.

Whether it’s pizza and street food or burgers, barbecue or even vegetarian fare, these are the food-focused cities around the world that Conde Nast Traveler readers have chosen as destinations worth visiting.

A region of Japan looking to use "ninja" warriors to boost tourism has made an American man the first foreigner to draw a salary for joining the ranks of the stealth assassins.

Japan has conveyed its concern to Moscow over possible Russian plans to build a naval base on a western Pacific island chain, part of which are claimed by Tokyo, a top Japanese government spokesman said on March 28, the latest in a long-running territorial spat. 

Since becoming available in January, new website domain name extensions for Istanbul have been selling swiftly among domain names for other world cities, a municipality spokesman has said.

A group of Russian and Japanese nationals detained in Montenegro will be expelled by midnight on Monday after it was found that they had no temporary residence permits allowing them to stay in the country for more than 30 days.

Istanbul has been named one of the world's top future financial centers along with Singapore, Shanghai, Dubai and others in a fresh report. The Istanbul Financial Center project should however be improved further in line with successful rising examples, such as Dubai, according to experts. 

London is the most popular hashtag on twitter with ‘London’ and ‘travels’ posted over 630,000 times in 2015, 200,000 times more that the next destinations, Paris, New York, Rome and Tokyo. The word ‘London’ in itself was tweeted over 80,000,000 times in 2015 along with the words ‘art’, ‘tarvels’ and ‘fashion’.

The Marathon organized in Tokyo is one of six World Marathon Majors, but it is the only one in the world that the runners are dressed in eccentric costumes.

More than 1.7 million roadside spectators had the chance to see ballerinas, princesses, superheroes, and cartoon characters running in Tokyo Marathon on Sunday February 28.

Japan's nuclear power-reliant utility Kansai Electric Power said yesterday it had found a pool of contaminated water at a nuclear reactor slated to restart in late February after years of being shut down.