In his Olympic year, Oscar Pistorius steadily became an avid firearms collector, joining a gun-collecting club and purchasing a collection of firearms that included a .500 Magnum pistol and a civilian version of a military assault rifle.
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.
Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy, is a leading candidate to become the next U.S. ambassador to Japan, two sources say.
The arrest of Mexico’s most powerful union leader echoes the hardball tactics of Mexico’s once-imperial presidency while pushing forward an ...
Why has Italy's muddled election result spooked global investors so much? Because it raises unsettling questions about the availability of ...
Chuck Hagel is set to be sworn in as U.S. defense secretary, battered by a confirmation fight even as he faces challenges from Pentagon budget cuts to withdrawing U.S. forces from Afghanistan.
Italian leftist leader Pier Luigi Bersani admits he had "come in first but not won" key elections and asks parties to help him push through reforms amid a political deadlock that has sent markets tumbling.
A deeply divided Senate votes to confirm Chuck Hagel as U.S. defense secretary, handing President Barack Obama's choice the job just days before billions of dollars in budget cuts hit the military.
Italy faces political paralysis as near-complete results in crucial national elections showed no clear front-runner and raised the possibility of a hung parliament.
Italy faces political paralysis as results in crucial national elections show no clear front-runner, leaving the country with an unprecedented hung Parliament.
Italy faces political paralysis as near-complete results in crucial national elections showed no clear front-runner and raised the possibility of a hung parliament.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case challenging a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was enacted to prevent persistent discrimination against blacks and other minorities at the polls. The Voting Rights Act effectively keeps ...
Conservative candidate Nicos Anastasiades won Cyprus’ presidency Sunday by one of the widest margins in 30 years, promising to do what it takes to quickly secure a financial rescue package from international creditors and prevent the country from sliding into economic oblivion. Anastasiades, 66, ...
Raul Castro announced Sunday that he will step down as Cuba’s president in 2018 following a final five-year term, for the first time putting a date on the end of the Castro era. He tapped rising star Miguel Diaz-Canel as his top lieutenant and ...
A campaign of insinuation and insult has targeted Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, and in a country where all power flows from the top downward, his boss, President Vladimir Putin, has done nothing all winter to stop it. Medvedev’s failings get an airing in the ...
John McCain was excited. It was late January, and the following day, he and a group of bipartisan senators were set to announce their framework for comprehensive immigration reform. He picked up the phone and called an old friend in Arizona. “We got it ...
In the annals of political redemption stories, it is hard to top the one that Republican Former Gov. Mark Sanford is attempting to write in South Carolina, the state he once headed. After a spectacular 2009 scandal that destroyed his marriage, spawned impeachment proceedings ...
