President Barack Obama, now facing the consequences of automatic spending cuts and the complications they raise for his broader domestic agenda, is taking the most specific steps of his administration in an attempt to ensure the election of a Democratic-controlled Congress in two years. ...
It’s a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chugoku no gunkan (中国の軍艦, Chinese warships) in the Higashi Shina Kai (東シナ海, East China Sea) challenged Japan’s Kaijo Jieitai (海上自衛隊, Maritime Self Defense Forces, MSDF) patrols in a manner deemed kyōiteki (脅威的, threatening). And on Feb. ...
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, ...
Manchester United's Shinji Kagawa is back with a bang, becoming the first Asian player to score a hat trick in the English Premier League.
Warnings about the zombie apocalypse may seem pretty amusing, but officials are dead serious about figuring out who hacked into the U.S. public warning system to broadcast such messages in several states. So far, people in California, Michigan, Montana and New Mexico have heard the warnings about zombies on the ...
An Air India pilot faces the wrath of his bosses after appearing in a YouTube video rapping about bad pay, ...
A group of medical specialists has provided an answer to a dilemma that has faced flyers since the Wright brothers ...
A kiss lasting nearly 2½ days has propelled a Thai couple to a new record for the world’s longest smooch. Hospital security guard Ekkachai Tiranarat, 44, and 33-year-old housewife Laksana locked lips for 58 hours, 35 minutes and 58 seconds, smashing last year’s record ...
Russian explorers claimed a record Wednesday in diving to the bottom of a remote lake at the coldest time of the year, but said they could not find its most famed inhabitant, a mythical Loch Ness-style monster. The team dived to the bottom of ...
A rare 148-year-old baseball card discovered at a rummage sale has been auctioned for $92,000. Saco River Auction Co. in Maine held an auction Wednesday night that included a card depicting the Brooklyn Atlantics amateur baseball club. Troy Thibodeau, manager and auctioneer at Saco ...
Women in Paris can finally wear trousers without fear of criminal prosecution after the government said a more than 200-year-old ban no longer has any legal effect. Minister of Women’s Rights Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, , said that the ban, imposed in 1800, is incompatible with ...
Recycling entrepreneur Tom Szaky is stubbing out the world’s cigarette problem — one butt at a time. The 30-year-old who dropped out of Princeton University to start his innovative firm, TerraCycle, in Trenton, New Jersey, says there is no such thing as trash, even ...
Spring is around the corner, according to America’s most celebrated groundhog. In an annual ritual with early roots in German folklore, a Pennsylvania groundhog named Punxsutawney Phil was interpreted Saturday as predicting an early end to winter. According to his handlers at the ceremony ...
One of two packages of photos of Iran's famed simian space traveler depicts the wrong monkey, prompting an official to insist one really did fly into space and return safely to Earth.
It took months for anyone to discover that an eccentric man known simply as Radkin had died, crushed under a tractor-pulled horse trailer on his property on the shores of Lake Champlain in northern Vermont. But it didn’t take long for looters to ransack ...
A man’s unusually complicated hunt for nudity on the Internet may land him in prison for more than 100 years after federal prosecutors say he hacked into hundreds of social media and email accounts to coerce more than 350 women into showing him their ...
A monkey strapped in a pod resembling an infant’s car seat rides an Iranian rocket into space and returns safely, in what was described as a step toward Tehran’s goal of manned space flight.
Eighty years after Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, a novel that imagines his return to modern-day Berlin has become a best-seller in Germany, though a comedy about the Fuehrer is not to everyone’s taste. Instead of committing suicide in his bunker on April 30, ...
Paris AFP-JIJI A lobster thrown live into boiling water may suffer for many seconds, according to a scientist who argued Thursday that crustaceans can likely feel pain. A set of experiments on crabs revealed the animals are willing to give up a valuable dark ...
