Mulatu Astatke has been blending jazz influences from home and abroad for the past six decades.

A multiple‑vehicle collision involving 67 cars and trucks on the Kan‑Etsu Expressway in Minakami, Gunma Prefecture left two people dead and 26 others injured in snowy conditions on the evening of December 26. (News On Japan)

The Home Office says Kinshasa has failed to agree to measures allowing the return of illegal immigrants and foreign national offenders.

The sisters, who were the first known quintuplets to survive past infancy, became a global phenomenon after their 1934 birth.