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 baby born with the virus that causes AIDS appears to have been cured, scientists announced Sunday, describing the case of a child from Mississippi who’s now 2½ years old and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection. ...
The camera zooms in on a bearded man dragging on a cigarette and blowing out a thick cloud of smoke with what seems to be great satisfaction. It resembles the TV smoking ads of yesteryear, now banned in most of the world, yet this ...
The Heart Attack Grill, the Las Vegas restaurant whose slogan proudly boasts that its artery-clogging fare is “worth dying for,” appears to have claimed another victim. Less than two years after its unofficial spokesman, 260-kg Blair River, died of health-related causes, another loyal customer ...
The world got its first glimpse of Hugo Chavez since he underwent a fourth cancer-related surgery in Cuba more than two months ago, with photos released Friday showing the Venezuelan leader smiling alongside his daughters in Havana. Along with images of the puffy-faced Chavez ...
An Australian court on Friday dismissed a challenge against the patenting of human genetic material in a landmark case that a cancer group says could stifle research. The case hinged on whether a patent can be granted to cover naturally occurring nucleic acids, the ...
The fresh rubella outbreak spreading quickly nationwide poses the greatest threat to fetuses, the National Institute of Infectious Diseases says.
Scientists said that for the first time they had printed 3-D objects using human embryonic stem cells, furthering the quest to fabricate transplantable organs. Once fine-tuned, the technology should allow scientists to make three-dimensional human tissue in the lab, eliminating the need for organ ...
For the first time, genes chemically silenced by stress during life have been shown to remain silenced in eggs and sperm, possibly allowing the effect to be passed down to the next generation. The finding, obtained from detailed DNA scans in developing mouse eggs ...
As a pathologist, Michael Zimmerman was familiar with dead bodies, but when he was asked to autopsy a mummy for the first time he wasn’t sure what to expect. There were a dozen layers of wrapping that he peeled off one at a time ...
A genetic variant commonly found in Chinese people may help explain why some became seriously ill with swine flu, a discovery scientists say could help pinpoint why flu viruses hit some populations particularly hard and alter how they are treated. Less than 1 percent ...
Leprosy has been called the world’s oldest recorded disease, an evil that humans have known for more than 3,500 years, as papyri from ancient Egypt testify. In modern times, drugs to cure leprosy have become cheap, plentiful and effective. So why is this biblical ...
More than 140 countries agreed Saturday on a groundbreaking treaty to rein in the use and emission of mercury, but environmental activists lamented it does not go far enough in preventing hazards to health. The world’s first legally binding treaty on mercury was reached ...
