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 ...
Near the entrance of York High School in northern England, painted in large letters, are the words of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” It is not a bad motto, particularly for a school that prides itself ...
As he came face to face with world leaders for the first time since unveiling plans for an EU referendum, British Prime Minister David Cameron insisted Thursday he is not turning his back on Europe. The global elite who are gathered at the World ...
Prime Minister David Cameron’s call for a new deal to keep Britain inside the European Union won little support Wednesday as fellow leaders, mindful of the potential fallout. “We can’t have Europe a la carte,” French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said. “Imagine the EU ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and British Premier David Cameron confirmed their cooperation over the ongoing Algeria hostage crisis during a telephone conversation Saturday evening. Speaking to reporters afterward, Abe said he and Cameron shared their concern that the situation remains “unpredictable” and that many ...
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 ...
