Nyoongar song-maker Maatakitj ('legs like spears') from the south of Western Australia creates new songs to sustain one of the world's longest continuing Indigenous performance traditions.

The organizer of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka is raising its estimate of the venue's construction cost for the second time to about ¥230 billion ($1.5 billion) due to rising material and labor costs, its officials said Monday.