Politics & Diplomacy
Hashimoto to retract sex suggestion for U.S. military
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto aims to retract his remark that U.S. servicemen in Okinawa should use the local adult entertainment industry to avoid committing sex crimes.
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A hot cup of Ceylon tea is better known as being soothing and relaxing, but Sri Lanka is now marketing its most profitable export as a luxury boost for the libido. The tea industry is increasingly plugging Ceylon’s supposed aphrodisiac qualities in a bid to radically change perceptions of the ...
Gigantic animals that once roamed Australia were mostly extinct by the time humans arrived, according to a new study that ...
Australia was first settled by between 1,000 and 3,000 humans around 50,000 years ago, but the population crashed during the ...
What if hospitals were run like a mix of Wal-Mart and a low-cost airline? The result might be something like the chain of “no-frills” Narayana Hrudayalaya clinics in southern India. Using prefabricated buildings, stripping out air conditioning and even training visitors to help with ...
A 15-month-old Indian girl whose head has swollen to nearly double its normal size is “doing well,” a doctor said Friday, but treatment could be complicated by the extreme nature of her case. Roona Begum, who suffers from hydrocephalus, a rare disorder that causes ...
Following a cluster of cases among relatives, experts from the U.N. health agency are examining whether the H7N9 bird flu virus is spreading among humans but downplayed fears of a pandemic Friday. “What we don’t know is the size of the iceberg under this ...
Australians are smoking and drinking less than they were five years ago but are fatter and more anxious, according to a new survey profiling the nation’s health launched Tuesday. The Wellness Index, compiled by polling firm Roy Morgan Research and an initiative of health ...
The World Health Organization said Monday there is no evidence China’s bird flu is spreading among humans, but jitters over the outbreak that has killed six people so far has also seen airline and tourism shares slump. China announced just over a week ago ...
An Australia-led study has identified a gene associated with a common form of epilepsy that could lead to earlier diagnosis, a researcher said. Melbourne University academic Ingrid Scheffer said a number of genes linked to epilepsy are known to scientists, but these relate to ...
An Australian-led group of scientists has for the first time tracked down and tagged Antarctic blue whales by using acoustic technology to follow their songs, the government said Wednesday. The blue whale, the largest animal on the planet, is rarely spotted in the Antarctic ...
Great white sharks, the world’s largest predatory fish, eat three to four times more food than previously thought, an Australian study shows. U.S. research from the 1980s estimated a 30 kg meal of mammal blubber could sustain a 1-ton shark for more than six ...
During the evening rush hour in central Karachi, Nadeem Mutloob can barely keep up with demand at his curbside milk bar, a popular stop for workers on their way home. Customers line up for cool bottles of what Mutloob and some medical researchers tout ...
Scientists have found traces of a micro-continent hidden underneath the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, they said in a report published Sunday. The slab, dubbed Mauritia, was probably formed around 61 million to 83 million years ago after Madagascar split from India, but eventually ...
Scientists have discovered a 200-km-wide impact zone in the Australian Outback they believe was caused by a massive asteroid smashing into Earth more than 300 million years ago. Andrew Glikson, a visiting fellow at the Australian National University, said Wednesday the asteroid measuring 10 ...
Struggling Philippine farmer Liezl Balmaceda has never heard of Madonna, but the U.S. pop star’s endorsement of coconut water may help substantially improve her life. After centuries of replenishing Filipinos, the mineral-rich liquid has become a must-have health drink thanks to aggressive marketing by ...