President Barack Obama, now facing the consequences of automatic spending cuts and the complications they raise for his broader domestic agenda, is taking the most specific steps of his administration in an attempt to ensure the election of a Democratic-controlled Congress in two years. ...
It’s a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chugoku no gunkan (中国の軍艦, Chinese warships) in the Higashi Shina Kai (東シナ海, East China Sea) challenged Japan’s Kaijo Jieitai (海上自衛隊, Maritime Self Defense Forces, MSDF) patrols in a manner deemed kyōiteki (脅威的, threatening). And on Feb. ...
Here's an open secret: Japanese men have a bad international reputation on the romance front.
SELLING WOMEN: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan, by Amy Stanley. University of California Press, 2012, 282 pp., $49.95 (hardcover) In the vast cultural landscape, Japan fascinates the mainstream with manga and anime, the martial arts, Zen and kimono. Of course, ...
Manchester United's Shinji Kagawa is back with a bang, becoming the first Asian player to score a hat trick in the English Premier League.
A swaggering Chicago-area police officer whose sensational story inspired a TV movie starring Rob Lowe was sentenced to 38 years in prison Thursday for murdering his wife. Drew Peterson, 59, had divorced Kathleen Savio, his third wife, a year before her death in 2004 ...
South African police appointed a new chief investigator Thursday in the Oscar Pistorius murder case, replacing a veteran detective after revelations that the officer was charged with seven counts of attempted murder. The sensational twist in the state’s troubled investigation fueled growing public fascination ...
A Swedish court Thursday overturned the rape conviction of a man who performed a forced “infidelity check” on his girlfriend, prompting calls for the country’s rape laws to be changed. Rachid Zoghlami was convicted of rape and sentenced to two years and eight months ...
A French author has written in graphic detail about her eight-month affair with disgraced former International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, calling the relationship “field work” for a controversial new book. The book by Argentina-born Marcela Iacub, a columnist with the leftwing ...
The son of a prominent U.S. civil rights leader entered a guilty plea Wednesday in federal court to criminal charges that he engaged in a scheme to spend $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items. Under a plea deal with prosecutors, he faces 46 ...
The prosecution case against Oscar Pistorius begins to unravel with revelations of a series of police blunders and the lead investigator's admission that authorities have no evidence challenging the double-amputee Olympian's claim he killed his girlfriend accidentally.
When the armored car set off for the Brussels airport carrying $50 million worth of precious stones from Antwerp’s diamond district, eight gunmen knew all about it. One of the biggest diamond heists in recent memory was about to go down. The thieves surely ...
A gunman killed three people in California on Tuesday, including at least one execution-style, in a series of shootings and carjackings before taking his own life, police said. At least two other people were injured as the gunman fired randomly at other vehicles on ...
Oscar Pistorius portrayed himself as a lover caught in tragedy, wielding a pistol and frightened as he stood only on his stumps, then killed his girlfriend after mistaking her for an intruder on Valentine’s Day. Prosecutors, however, said the double amputee Olympian committed premeditated ...
Thieves have outwitted armed guards, alarm systems and even airport security over the years, making off with jewelry worth millions. In Brussels, thieves cut through an airport fence, drove to a plane and snatched an estimated $50 million in diamonds Monday. Here are some ...
Oscar Pistorius was the perfect South African sports hero because victory over his disability made him a universally admired figure in a still-divided society. The profoundly macho culture he grew up in spans racial groups and provides some explanation for the country’s shocking rates ...
When the armored car set off for the Brussels airport carrying $50 million worth of precious stones from Antwerp's diamond district, eight gunmen knew all about it.
