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Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, ...
Tonkatsu is comfort food, gourmand grub — not a gourmet delicacy. So what are those hearty, unpretentious deep-fried breaded pork cutlets doing in an elegant little bar-style restaurant above one of Ginza’s temples to high-end consumption? Katsuzen has come a long way from its ...
Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case in point. Not only ...
It is a tricky deal being an authorized biographer. Charles Moore’s big advantage over those who have previously tackled Margaret Thatcher is that he has been provided with material denied to them. Of the arrangement that he was offered by his subject, he writes: ...
Unbelievable energy. Splendid self confidence. Never-wavering faith in his abilities or his teammates. Those are ingredients to success for Draelon Burns, the Yokohama B-Corsairs’ super substitute. Burns buried a remarkable three buzzer-beating shots to close out the three final quarters, and his team needed ...
Taiwan on Sunday dispatched four coast guard and naval vessels to beef up patrols in waters near the Philippines following public outrage over the shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman by Philippine Coast Guard officers. “The government is determined to protect our fishermen,” Cabinet spokeswoman ...
Mongolia may need to rustle up some more glass cases for its first dinosaur museum after U.S. authorities announced they will hand back a large new collection of stolen fossils. Last Monday in New York, officials turned over an almost complete skeleton of a ...
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh fired two of his Cabinet ministers to help limit the damage caused by graft allegations against his administration, two officials with knowledge of the matter said. Rail Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal and Law Minister Ashwani Kumar resigned Friday, the officials ...
Doing what many brave young Chinese did, Yang Jingtao left his home as a teen to fight the invading Japanese in World War II. The problem was that he fought while wearing the uniform of the Chinese Nationalist Army, condemning him to be shunned ...
Bangladeshi doctors treating a “miracle” survivor pulled from the ruins of a collapsed building after 17 days said Saturday she was doing “great” and had been reunited with her family. Reshma Begum, 18, a seamstress dug out from the rubble of the garment factory ...
Defying the danger of militant attacks, Pakistanis streamed to the polls Saturday for a historic vote pitting a former cricket star against a two-time prime minister and an unpopular incumbent. But bombings that killed at least ten people and wounded dozens more underlined the ...
As night begins to give way to dawn, 40 high-performance cars pull up on an empty Hong Kong backstreet. While the city sleeps, exhaust from their revving engines fills the air with a heavy smell of gasoline. The drivers huddle together to set the ...
A pair of sandals formerly owned by Indian independence hero Mohandas Gandhi is to go under the hammer in Britain later this month. Auction house Mullock’s said the battered leather shoes, due to be sold May 21, are expected to fetch up to ￡15,000 ...
In an interview aired Friday, basketball hall-of-famer Dennis Rodman said he plans a second trip to North Korea to try to use his budding friendship with leader Kim Jong Un to free an imprisoned American. The flamboyant basketball legend, approached by celebrity news website ...
A carrier-borne aviation force has been formally established as part of the China’s navy, the official Xinhua news agency reported Friday. Xinhua said the navy is building a naval aviation force for the Liaoning, the nation’s first carrier, consisting of at least two aviation ...
Two Australians plunged off a cruise ship into the ocean despite higher-than-required railings to prevent accidental falls, the cruise company said Friday as authorities called off the search for the couple missing for two days. Surveillance video showed the couple going over the railing ...
Skygazers across the Australian Outback were among the lucky few to witness a solar eclipse on Friday as the moon glided between Earth and the sun, blocking everything but a dazzling ring of light. “It was perfect,” said Geoff Sims, who photographed the event ...