As millions across Southeast Asia suffer a blistering heatwave that is melting railway tracks, a Thai village resorted to an unusual method to seek rain: parading a Japanese cartoon cat.

Last summer was the hottest ever recorded in the United States, and heat-related health emergencies also reached record-high levels in some parts of the country. In the United States, the vast ...

Desperate times call for desperate measures, and across Asia, communities are responding to an extreme and deadly heat wave ... used plushies of Doraemon—a cartoon blue, male, robotic cat ...