1 killed in Japan as 50-vehicle pile-up leads to crash on icy expressway

A massive crash in snowy weather killed one person and injured 26 on an expressway in Japan late on Friday as the country kicked off its end-of-the-year holiday season. The Gunma prefectural highway police said on Saturday that the pile-up on the Kan-etsu Expressway started with a collision between two trucks in the town of Minakami, about 160km (100 miles) northwest of Tokyo. A 77-year-old woman from Tokyo died, police said. Out of the 26 injured, five were reported to be in serious...