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 heavy meteor shower rains down on central Russia, sowing panic as the hurtling space debris smashes windows and injures hundreds of people.
Federal regulators are struggling to overcome substantial industry opposition and implement a sweeping aviation safety law that was enacted after the last fatal U.S. airline crash nearly four years ago, according to a report by a government watchdog. The Federal Aviation Administration is experiencing ...
A blast that collapsed the lower floors of a building in the headquarters of Mexico’s state-owned oil company, crushing at least 33 people beneath tons of rubble and injuring 121, is being looked at as an accident although all lines of investigation remain open, ...
Aviation regulators on Thursday grounded most of the world’s 787 Dreamliner fleet until a fire risk linked to the plane’s batteries can be fixed, deepening a crisis for its U.S. manufacturer, Boeing Co. Regulators in Japan, India and Chile followed the lead of the ...
A helicopter crashed into a crane on top of an unfinished 51-story apartment block in London on Wednesday, killing the pilot and another person and strewing burning wreckage over the area. At least 13 people were injured after the chopper broke off part of ...
A train carrying military conscripts derailed southwest of Cairo on Tuesday, killing 19 people and wounding 107, the Health Ministry said, highlighting the country’s chronic transport problems. The train was taking young recruits from south Egypt to a military camp in Cairo when two ...
A year after the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster, the luxury liners that ply the waters just in front of St. Mark’s Square in Venice are stirring unease in the world-famous lagoon. The debate pits conservationists who are up in arms about the environmental ...
Four crew members were killed Saturday when a Russian airliner crashed into a highway and broke into three pieces after careering off the runway at Russia’s third-busiest airport. The Red Wings airlines Russian-made Tu-204 jet — empty of passengers and carrying just its eight ...
