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 ...
NASA probes that are exploring the twin Van Allen radiation belts encircling the Earth have spied a third band of radiation that burst into view and then disappeared, scientists reported Thursday. The discovery of the temporary band of high-energy electrons has stunned scientists and ...
In a Mars first, the rover Curiosity has drilled into a rock and prepared to dump a pinch of powder into its onboard laboratories for closer inspection. The feat marked another milestone for the car-size rover, which landed last year to much fanfare on ...
A close encounter of the rocky kind is set for Feb. 16, when an asteroid the size of an office building will speed past the Earth faster than a bullet.
Astronomers using the most advanced land telescope in the world have unlocked knowledge about how formidable gas giant planets such as Jupiter and Saturn come into being. These vast but uninhabitable worlds are created by gobbling up gas and dust that envelop young stars ...
Astronomers using the most advanced land telescope in the world have unlocked knowledge about how formidable gas giant planets such as Jupiter and Saturn come into being. These vast but uninhabitable worlds are created by gobbling up gas and dust that envelop young stars ...
Washington AFP-JIJI A meteorite from Mars nicknamed “Black Beauty” could hold vital clues to the planet’s evolution from the warm and wet place it once was to its current cold and dry state, NASA said Thursday. Discovered in Morocco’s Sahara Desert in 2011, the ...
Washington AFP-JIJI A meteorite from Mars nicknamed “Black Beauty” could hold vital clues to the planet’s evolution from the warm and wet place it once was to its current cold and dry state, NASA said Thursday. Discovered in Morocco’s Sahara Desert in 2011, the ...
