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The head of an official inquiry into the deadly collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said the building’s owner was the “main culprit” for the disaster because he violated construction codes. The cave-in of the eight-story Rana Plaza outside the capital last month killed ...
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 ...
“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, ...
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, ...
As far as debuts go, Shohei Otani's delivered. The celebrated rookie pitched fairly well on Thursday night, and though he finished outside the decision, he left the mound with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters well within striking distance of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
Landing astronauts safely on Mars is one of the biggest technological hurdles for any future manned mission to the red planet, even more complicated than last year’s daring rover touchdown. NASA dazzled observers by landing the 1-ton Curiosity rover on Mars in August in ...
The notion of landing astronauts on Mars has long been more fantasy than reality. The planet is, on average, 225 million km from Earth, and its atmosphere is not hospitable to human life. But a human voyage to the planet is now, for the ...
Enigmatic traces of water in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter came from a comet that crashed into the planet in 1994, the European Space Agency says. Astronomers have been debating the water for 15 years after telltale molecules were spotted by an infrared telescope. ...
Are you crazy enough to sign up for a one-way trip to Mars? Applications are now being accepted by the makers of a Dutch reality show that says it will deliver the first humans to the red planet in 10 years. The main requirements ...
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 ...
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 ...