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A monstrous tornado at least 800 meters wide roared through the suburbs of Oklahoma City on Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds of up to 320 kph. At least 91 ...
If you work in an office, you probably spend a fair part of your time sitting at a desk, which, of course, isn’t very healthy. To combat that the Pomodoro technique recommends that you work in intervals with regular breaks — for example, 25 ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
"Outsider art" is relatively new in Japan and, as a genre, works made by self-taught Japanese artists are still not very well known on the category-delineating, label-loving international art scene.
After all these years, Rafael Nadal still knows how to dominate Roger Federer. In the 30th meeting between the two tennis greats, Nadal controlled the final from start to finish to win 6-1, 6-3 Sunday for his seventh Italian Open title. “Rafa was just ...
Former President Joseph Estrada was proclaimed Tuesday as the new mayor of the Philippine capital, his first elected post since he was ousted in an anticorruption revolt 12 years ago. In other partial results from Monday’s congressional and local elections, nine senatorial candidates backed ...
The family of deceased dictator Ferdinand Marcos enjoyed easy wins in Philippine elections, official data showed Tuesday, with his unrepentant wife leading the clan’s political charge. Imelda Marcos captured more than 88 percent of the votes cast Monday to win a second-consecutive term in ...
Malaysia’s bitter political rivals launched a last-ditch campaign sprint Saturday on the eve of the first elections in the country’s history in which the long-ruling regime faces possible defeat. Prime Minister Najib Razak and opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim barnstormed through their home regions, where ...
A total of 337 people plan to run in the upcoming Upper House election and vie for 121 of the chamber’s 242 seats, according to a recent survey. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner, New Komeito, are aiming for ...
Political parties over the weekend competed for the support of heavy Internet users at an event hosted by an online video-sharing site in the runup to the House of Councilors election in July, the first election to allow politicians unfettered access to the Web ...
focus Malaysia’s ruling establishment has been accused of resorting to “gutter politics” as a bruising election campaign kicks off amid outrage over sex videos and opposition charges of sabotage. The May 5 vote looks to be a typically hard-fought and polarizing Malaysian election as ...
While the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe enjoys high support rates, hovering around 70 percent, its very legitimacy is being questioned. More than a dozen high courts have handed down rulings confirming that vote-value disparities tainted the Dec. 16 general election that returned ...
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Saturday kicked off their campaigns for May 5 elections that are likely to be the country’s closest ever. The two rivals joined hundreds of parliamentary candidates across the nation in submitting nomination papers ...
Whistle-blowing group WikiLeaks unveiled plans Saturday to field candidates in at least three states in Australia’s elections and said it will be “embarrassing” if Julian Assange wins but cannot take his seat. Assange, Australian-born founder of the controversial WikiLeaks site, announced last year that ...
A Diet panel has compiled a formal recommendation that the government rectify the vote-value disparity between the least- and most-populous constituencies by reducing the number of Lower House electoral districts. The panel is seeking to eliminate five single-seat constituencies, in Fukui, Yamanashi, Tokushima, Kochi ...
After the resignation of two of her most senior ministers prompted a Cabinet reshuffle ahead of a national election, Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Saturday denied that her government was in shambles. Saturday’s announcement that the two ministers had quit came only three days ...
The Liberal Democratic Party has outlined legislation that would allow the use of all types of online communications tools, including email, Facebook and Twitter, for election campaigns, LDP lawmakers said. “A partial lifting of the ban on online election campaigning would not meet the ...