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 ...
A soldier pleaded guilty to charges Thursday in connection with the largest leak of classified material in U.S. history and gave his first detailed explanation of his actions. He said he sent the material to WikiLeaks to enlighten the public about Washington’s foreign and ...
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 ...
In the first weeks of 2000 the founders of Napster were in their office above a bank in San Mateo, California, considering dizzying numbers. Figures scrawled on a whiteboard told how many people around the world had installed their file-sharing application and were using ...
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 ...
For nearly two weeks, protesters and strikers have shut down much of Egypt’s Port Said, filling the city’s streets with one angry rally after another. At the height of the unrest, they succeeded in closing off the multimillion-dollar Mediterranean port, forcing some ships to ...
China is awash with nondescript new office buildings, so the 12-story tower in Shanghai’s Pudong area hardly looked likely to cause global headlines. Not even propaganda posters on walls surrounding it or People’s Liberation Army guards standing at the gates made the building stand ...
Creating a “superbrain” of connected minds, scientists Thursday said they had enabled a rat to help a fellow rodent while the animals were a continent apart but connected through brain electrodes. With electrodes imbedded in its cortex, a rat in a research institute in ...
Levels of carbon dioxide rose hand in hand with warming at the end of the last Ice Age, according to a study that deals a blow to climate skeptics. French researchers said Thursday that they had answered a riddle that has perplexed scientists. The ...
Falling numbers of wild bees and other pollinating insects are hurting global agriculture, a study released Thursday found. Managed populations of pollinators are less effective at fertilizing plants than wild ones, the researchers said, so the dearth of pollinating insects cannot be solved by ...
Taylor Wilson, 18, has designed a compact nuclear reactor that could one day burn waste from old atomic weapons to power anything from homes and factories to space colonies. The American teen, who gained fame four years ago after designing a fusion reactor he ...
The mastermind of Britain’s 1963 Great Train Robbery, Bruce Reynolds, died Thursday at age 81 after a life he said had been cursed by his role in one of the 20th century’s most notorious crimes. Reynolds was the brains in a gang that held ...
The effects of the $85 billion in U.S. government spending cuts that were to kick in Friday will be felt across oceans and could further hurt recession-hit Europe and burden an economically slowing China, shrinking the market for countries that depend on selling things ...
