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 ...
British Prime Minister David Cameron visited the site of a colonial-era massacre in India on Wednesday, describing the episode as “deeply shameful” while stopping short of a public apology. On the last leg of a three-day trip aimed at forging deeper economic ties, Cameron ...
European Union leaders prepared the first-ever cuts in the bloc’s budget Friday, bowing to British Prime Minister David Cameron’s insistence on thrift. After an all-night bargaining session interspersed with catnaps on couches at EU headquarters in Brussels, the leaders reassembled at 6:30 a.m. to ...
The British government Monday unveiled details of new high-speed rail lines linking London to cities in northern England with trains traveling up to 360 kph. The government says the project, known as High Speed 2, will be the first new railway built north of ...
A yearlong series of cultural events has been launched in Britain to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the establishment of relations with Japan. The so-called Japan400 cultural festival will see some 100 events explore the adventurous spirit behind the first exchanges between the two ...
The first child of Prince William and his wife, Kate, is due in July, St James’s Palace said Monday. The palace also said Kate was returning to full health following her hospitalization last month with severe morning sickness. “The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge ...
Heavyweight political rivals Kenneth Clarke and Peter Mandelson will join forces to lobby for Britain to stay in the EU as David Cameron prepares to reveal his position, the Observer newspaper reported Sunday. The pair will fight calls — particularly from the right wing ...
The late BBC TV presenter Jimmy Savile was a sexual predator who abused children as young as 8 for more than 50 years, using his fame and eccentricity to hide “in plain sight,” British police said Friday. A three-month investigation with the National Society ...
British adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes said Sunday his bid for the world’s first Antarctic winter crossing, with no option of rescue, would be a trip into the unknown despite his multiple record expeditions. Known as the world’s greatest living explorer, Fiennes departed Monday for ...
ANALYSIS Is this what life on the other side of the “fiscal cliff” looks like? If President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans fail to reach a deal in the coming weeks, Americans face a fierce wave of tax hikes and spending cuts that could ...
FOCUS The City of London, already campaigning hard against EU proposals for regulating banks, is now hitting back at a threat to its dominance of the vast market for trading in euros. The latest perceived attack on the supremacy of the City came last ...
Prince William abandoned an event Sunday to be with his wife, Kate, as the Australian radio station engulfed in the row over the hoax phone call death promised to review its practices. William pulled out of attending a military tournament in London to spend ...
A nurse at the hospital that treated Prince William’s pregnant wife, Kate, has been found dead in a suspected suicide days after being duped by a hoax call from an Australian radio station. The royal couple said they were “deeply saddened” by Jacintha Saldanha’s ...
