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At least six researchers suffered internal radiation exposure when an experiment involving elementary particles went awry and up to 24 more are feared to have been similarly exposed, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency said Saturday. Radioactive substances leaked following the accident Thursday in the ...
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
If you don’t get into the ring once or twice, then you’re a coward, Geoffrey Ima says as he describes people’s attitudes toward boxing in his hometown in Uganda. Ima has been in the ring hundreds of times and came to love boxing so ...
Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the “best birthday party ever” when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion. The 90-year-old French director is hoping for an even better birthday gift, ...
The 27-year-old defender says he was ready for a change of scenery after helping Sanfrecce Hiroshima win theJ. League title last season.
Portugal’s constitutional court Friday rejected several aspects of the country’s belt-tightening budget for 2013, seen as crucial to austerity efforts promised to creditors by the center-right government. The court ruled that some measures in the budget were unlawful, including the scrapping of a 14th ...
After President Barack Obama set up a national online suggestion box in 2009 asking federal workers for new ways to cut the budget, 86,000 ideas came in. Some, inevitably, were a little odd. One suggested that Transportation Security Administration officers scour airport floors for ...
As soon as policymakers averted a crisis in Cyprus, another appears to be brewing. The latest country to provoke concern is Slovenia. The small former Yugoslav republic took a beating Friday, with long-term bond yields spiking to 5.4 percent amid fears the country would ...
European leaders Monday hailed a last-minute bailout for Cyprus as an important step in defending their unified currency, but some officials and analysts questioned whether the deal raised new problems that could still threaten the survival of the euro. The arrangement will grant Cyprus ...
Struggling small firms can expect continued government support after the debt moratorium law expires at month’s end, although some borrowers are already getting warnings from banks. Some 300,000 to 400,000 companies have seen their loan terms eased under the law, which took effect in ...
The U.S. Senate reached a milestone Saturday when it overcame partisan gridlock to approve its first budget resolution in four years, setting up a political duel with the Republican-held House of Representatives. The sweeping plan for the 2014 fiscal year, the first budget blueprint ...
By joining the eurozone, Cyprus' problems became the euro's problems, and as we've discovered in recent years, the euro's problems are the world's problems.
The U.S. Congress approved a short-term funding bill Thursday that ends the possibility of a federal government shutdown next week, but a broader budget battle about taxes and spending for 2013 is only just beginning. The stop-gap spending resolution, approved on a broad bipartisan ...
London AFP-JIJI Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced revisions to economic growth forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility. He said the economy is expected to avoid sliding into a triple-dip recession in the first quarter of 2013. The forecast for GDP growth ...
The eurozone told Cyprus on Monday to ditch the part of a hugely controversial €5.8 billion ($7.5 billion) grab on savings that stung even the smallest of account holders in exchange for a €10 billion sovereign bailout deal, according to a statement issued after ...
Amid fears of a run on bank accounts in Cyprus, President Nicos Anastasiades is trying to persuade lawmakers to back an EU bailout deal that slaps a levy on bank savings. Anastasiades, in an address to the nation Sunday night, said that rejecting the ...
A sharp fall in the unemployment rate Friday and a fresh all-time record for stocks show the U.S. economy pulling away from its peers, gaining ground while Europe and Japan remain stagnant. The Federal Reserve’s easy-money policy and the government’s modest stimulus spending appear ...