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Old people in Japan should kill themselves to avoid burdening the state, a professor at Yale University has said. Yusuke Narita, an assistant professor of economics, has also suggested that euthanasia could be made compulsory. Last year, official statistics in Japan revealed that over-75s accounted for 15 per cent of the country’s population for the first time. Those over 65 account for 29.1 per c

Russian servicemen stand guard in front of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. A soldier camping in a toxic forest nearby has reportedly been killed by radiation poisoning Credit: Russian Defence Ministry/Shutterstock Radiation from the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine has reportedly killed one Russian soldier after his unit camped in a toxic area known as the Red Forest. The soldier wa

William Adams has been formally identified as the first English person to set foot in Japan An Englishman who became shipwrecked in Japan in 1600 and later rose the ranks to become a Samurai: the tale of William Adams' life sounds like the plot of an adventure story. Now, the remains of Adams - the first English person to set foot in Japan - can be formally identified today, the 400th anniversary

Troops are stationed across Asian countries, including at Osan Air Base in South Korea AP Photo/Susan Walsh The defence ministers of South Korea and China have agreed to develop their security ties to ensure stability in north-east Asia, the latest indication that Washington’s long-standing alliances in the region are fraying. On the sidelines of regional security talks in Bangkok on Sunday, Jeong

A man holds an imperial flag as he visits the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo in August on the 74th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two Credit:  KIM KYUNG-HOON/ REUTERS South Korea has condemned Japan’s refusal to ban images of the former imperial flag of the rising sun from the Tokyo Olympic Games next summer, as relations between Seoul and Tokyo continue to sour. South Korea’s foreign min

Harvard student Obasi Shaw created a rap album as his final year thesis. Credit: AP A Harvard student has become the first in the university's history to submit a rap album for his senior thesis. Student Obasi Shaw, who will graduate from the prestigious university next week, produced his album Liminal Minds while other classmates wrote novels, poems, and short stories. The 10-track album is the f

Displaced people from the Yazidi religious minority, fleeing violence from forces loyal to the Islamic State in Sinjar town, ride trucks as they are evacuated Credit: Reuters It’s a level of pastoral care few universities can boast of providing. A chemistry professor at Lund University dispatched a team of elite mercenaries into an Islamic State warzone to free one of her doctoral students and his

Yuka Ogata, 43, was ordered to leave Kumamoto Municipal Assembly in southern Japan last year after bringing her seven-month-old baby to work Credit: KYODO/REUTERS The Japanese politician who was censured for bringing her baby to work has been kicked out of another local government meeting – this time for sucking cough sweets. Yuka Ogata, 43, attracted global headlines when she was ordered to leave

Avital Ronell giving a lecture in 2017. She has been suspended by NYU after the university upheld accusations of sexual harassment A celebrated female professor at New York University has been found responsible for sexually harassing a male former graduate, prompting a host of leading feminists to spring to her defense. Avital Ronell, a world-renowned professor of German and comparative literature

The falling birth rate in Japan comes despite financial and other incentives designed to encourage young couples to have children Credit: SOPA/LightRocket A politician from Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has issued a reluctant apology after suggesting that single women are a burden on the state. Kanji Kato, 72, was accused of sexism for telling newlyweds that they need to have at least th

Pupils sitting GCSE and A-level exams complained they struggled to read the correct time Schools are removing analogue clocks from examination halls because teenagers are unable to tell the time, a head teachers’ union has said. Teachers are now installing digital devices after pupils sitting their GCSE and A-level exams complained that they were struggling to read the correct time on an analogue

The British offices of the Murdoch entertainment empire 21st Century Fox have been raided by investigators from the European Commission, The Daily Telegraph can reveal. It is understood that competition watchdogs gained access to the company’s offices in Hammersmith, west London, early on Tuesday to seize documents and computer records. The full details of the confidential investigation, which is

A survey found the photo-sharing app negatively impacted on people's body image, sleep and fear of missing out Credit: Cultura RM/Alamy Instagram is the worst social media site in terms of its impact on the mental health of young people, a report has suggested. The #StatusofMind survey found the photo-sharing app negatively impacted on people's body image, sleep and fear of missing out. However, t

A final theory explaining how mankind might detect parallel universes was completed by Stephen Hawking shortly before he died, it has emerged. Colleagues have revealed the renowned theoretical physicist’s final academic work was to set out the groundbreaking mathematics needed for a spacecraft to find traces of multiple big bangs. Currently being reviewed by a leading scientific journal, the paper

Being allowed to stab your boss in effigy could help avert feelings of injustice Credit: Getty images Allowing disgruntled staff to stab voodoo dolls of their boss could help them feel less resentful and improve the quality of their work, a new study has suggested. According to the Health and Safety Executive, more than 12 million Britons are forced to take time off work each year because of stres

His apology was of a different tone to the one struck on Friday, when Mr Goldring told the Guardian critics were "gunning" for his organisation and suggested no-one had "murdered babies in their cots". The emergence of the report comes as the Conservative peer, Baroness Nicholson, who runs a charity, told the Sunday Telegraph that ministers were presiding over a “rotten” foreign aid system where f

A spirit of terror stalks the land which leaves no one – or certainly no male – living or dead, free from the possibility of retrospective guilt. Latest in the firing line are the kind of Victorian academic painters who until now have been considered guilty of nothing more heinous than being irredeemably boring and stuffy. On Friday, Manchester Art Gallery removed without warning John William Wate

'If we don't like the uniform, we needn't do the job' - grid girls line up after the qualifying session for the Formula One Grand Prix at the Monaco racetrack in May 2017 Credit: Frank Augstein/AP I’ve always been a motorsports fan. I grew up watching them with my dad, who taught me the meaning of being black-flagged and pointed out the backmarkers. So when I saw a job casting for a ‘grid girl’ wh

Strava Labs heat map reveals the locations of millions of users - including those on military bases Credit: Strava labs A global map showing the distribution of people using personal fitness devices risks giving away troop movements and secret military facilities around the world, according to defence analysts who have already used it to pinpoint bases in Afghanistan and the Middle East. The Ameri