AP A car bomb exploded outside a mosque Sunday, killing at least 37 people and wounding another 141 in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi — the third mass-casualty attack on the minority sect in the country this ...
It's a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chinese warships in the East China Sea challenged Japan's Maritime Self Defense Forces patrols in a manner deemed threatening. And on Feb. 12 came North Korea's nuclear test.
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, ...
Kenta Maeda shook off worries about his form with five shutout innings as Japan beat China 5-2 in first-round Pool A of the World Baseball Classic on Sunday at Fukuoka Dome. Japan improved to 2-0 following a tough win over Brazil in Saturday evening’s ...
A recent report by Republican staff members in the U.S. Senate warns that China, because of its deepening economic ties with North Korea as well as its ancient claims on Korean land, could attempt to “manage, and conceivably block,” the eventual unification of the ...
Pakistan’s top judge ordered the arrest of Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Tuesday over graft allegations, threatening to deepen the country’s political turmoil as thousands of protesters demanded the government step down. Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry ordered officials to arrest 16 people ...
President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday fired the country’s first woman chief justice by ratifying Parliament’s vote to impeach her, his spokesman said. The move came despite mounting calls on Rajapaksa to halt the impeachment, which has been seen by rights groups and Western nations ...
The Taliban believed Beyar Khan Weyaar was the perfect candidate to prepare an insider attack on Afghan police, but instead he set a daring trap that has given rare insight into suicide bombing tactics. Weyaar, a low-ranking police officer in the eastern province of ...
Taliban militants have shot dead 21 Pakistani tribal police who they had kidnapped in raids on two camps outside Peshawar in the troubled northwest of the country, officials said Sunday. Around 200 militants, armed with heavy weapons including mortars and rocket launchers, stormed the ...
Beijing AP A dozen local officials in eastern China have been suspended while authorities investigate the crash of an overloaded school van that killed 11 kindergartners, state media said Wednesday. A deputy mayor of Guixi, where the crash occurred Monday, and the heads of ...
The remorse felt by Himali Chungda Sherpa after he killed three snow leopard cubs in retaliation for his lost cattle inspired him to set up a system to prevent other herders from doing the same. Sherpa lost his cattle near the village of Ghunsa, ...
Myanmar launched a probe Wednesday into the cause of an air accident that left two people dead and 11 injured when a passenger jet packed with foreign tourists landed short of the runway and caught fire. The incident raised fresh questions about the safety ...
A survey of endangered porpoises in China’s longest river has yielded fewer sightings as intense ship traffic threatens their existence, scientists reported. Chinese researchers spent 44 days tracking the finless porpoise — or “river pig” in Chinese — along a little more than half ...
When Sonali Mukherjee spurned the advances of three of her fellow students, they responded by melting her face with acid. But rather than hide herself away, the 27-year-old applied to appear on India’s most-watched TV quiz show — and walked away a millionaire. “If ...
An Indian policeman injured in clashes during a violent protest over a gang-rape in New Delhi died Tuesday, a police spokesman said, as much of the city center remained sealed off following the clashes. Subash Tomar, a 47-year-old constable deployed at the India Gate ...
Posters of U.S. bombers crashing in flames festoon Hanoi to mark another anniversary in a long-finished war. But behind the usual propaganda Vietnam’s rulers face a modern-day threat — anger over the economy. For years the leaders of the one-party state have relied on ...
