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 ...
King Richard I, the 12th-century warrior whose bravery during the Third Crusade gained him the moniker Lionheart, ended up with a heart full of daisies, as well as myrtle, mint and frankincense. Those were among the findings of a French study, announced Thursday, which ...
A video posted online Monday apparently shows seven French hostages kidnapped from northern Cameroon, with a masked militant claiming the radical Islamic group Boko Haram from neighboring Nigeria holds them. The video, posted to YouTube and mentioned on a jihadist website, shows one of ...
French actor Gerard Depardieu got a new permanent address in Russia — 1 Democracy St. — on Saturday, adding a final touch to his quest to get Russian citizenship. After receiving his Russian passport from President Vladimir Putin last month, Depardieu had it stamped ...
Richard III may have had an ignominious resting place under a car park in Leicester, in England’s East Midlands, but spare a thought for Henri IV. First the French monarch was disinterred from the royal sepulchre by revolutionaries and thrown into a mass grave. ...
A French author has written in graphic detail about her eight-month affair with disgraced former International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, calling the relationship “field work” for a controversial new book. The book by Argentina-born Marcela Iacub, a columnist with the leftwing ...
Nestle SA, the world’s largest food company, is withdrawing some beef ravioli and beef tortellini products and suspended deliveries after food tested positive for horse DNA. Nestle is removing the chilled pasta foods in Italy and Spain immediately and replacing them with 100 percent ...
“A good roast or a really nice steak — fabulous! Burgers are good, too, but the way I really like it is raw, minced and served with a garlicky vinaigrette!” Luc Friedrich is a member of a dwindling but dedicated band of horse-meat lovers, ...
The European Union has agreed to immediately launch tests for equine DNA in meat products, seeking to reassure nervous consumers that their food is safe and to stop the continent’s horse-meat scandal from spreading. The program will also look for the presence of phenylbutazone, ...
First there was “pink slime.” Then horse meat. And most recently, “desinewed meat.” Recent revelations that such products have reached dinner tables, including horse meat falsely labeled as beef in Europe, have cast an unappetizing light on the global food industry. Critics say the ...
Scientists reported Wednesday on the bizarre sex life of a sea slug that discards its penis after copulation, then grows a new one. “No other animal is known to repeatedly copulate using such ‘disposable penes,’ ” Japanese biologists wrote in the Royal Society journal ...
A food fraud scandal over horse meat sold as beef deepened Saturday as two companies at the center of the row took legal action and European governments said criminal activity is suspected. Frozen food giant Findus lodged a legal complaint in France after evidence ...
Prime Minister David Cameron claimed victory in his battle to slash the EU budget Friday, saying marathon talks proved that his promise of a referendum on EU membership had not left Britain isolated. Cameron had vowed to accept nothing less than a real-term freeze ...
