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Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, ...
Tonkatsu is comfort food, gourmand grub — not a gourmet delicacy. So what are those hearty, unpretentious deep-fried breaded pork cutlets doing in an elegant little bar-style restaurant above one of Ginza’s temples to high-end consumption? Katsuzen has come a long way from its ...
Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case in point. Not only ...
It is a tricky deal being an authorized biographer. Charles Moore’s big advantage over those who have previously tackled Margaret Thatcher is that he has been provided with material denied to them. Of the arrangement that he was offered by his subject, he writes: ...
Unbelievable energy. Splendid self confidence. Never-wavering faith in his abilities or his teammates. Those are ingredients to success for Draelon Burns, the Yokohama B-Corsairs’ super substitute. Burns buried a remarkable three buzzer-beating shots to close out the three final quarters, and his team needed ...
The government adopted two welfare bills at a Cabinet meeting Friday that would spell out tougher measures for cheats. The legislation comprises a bill to revise the Public Assistance Act and a bill to support poor people. Under the proposed change to the Public ...
Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote a note before his capture in which he called the victims “collateral damage” for U.S. action in Afghanistan and Iraq, local media reported Thursday. “When you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims,” Tsarnaev also scribbled on the ...
A suicide car bombing tore through a U.S. convoy during rush hour in the Afghan capital Thursday, killing at least 15 people, including six U.S. military advisers and two children, officials said. An Islamic militant group claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was ...
A U.S. man was found guilty of murder Thursday after his paralyzed victim identified him by blinking during a police interview. The defense had tried to block a police video of the interview, saying David Chandler’s blinking was inconsistent and unreliable. A jury convicted ...
Two brothers who belong to a New Orleans gang were charged with opening fire at a Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans where 20 people were shot, police said Thursday. Sunday’s shooting at a crowded parade filled with families shocked the Big Easy, which ...
President Barack Obama summoned the Pentagon’s leadership to the White House on Thursday for a crisis meeting about sexual assault in the armed forces, but the commander in chief said that “there’s no silver bullet to solving this problem.” In a brief appearance after ...
Ever tried toasting hamburger buns on a grill? It takes uncanny timing to achieve an even medium brown across the buns. Typically, they remain white for far too long. Then, as if time accelerates, they blow past toasted to burned in the seconds it ...
The owner of a road-building company in Belize that has been blamed for the near destruction of one of the country’s biggest Maya pyramids said Thursday that the landowner gave permission to extract the material. Businessman Denny Grijalva said the landowner had allowed excavations ...
A clan whose chiefs are on trial for the Philippines’ worst political massacre secured big wins in local elections this week, results showed Friday, deepening fears that justice may never be served. Leaders of the Ampatuan family and their gunmen are accused of massacring ...
An Australian politician says he has learned a valuable lesson in social networking after he “liked” a Facebook photo without realizing that it showed a teenage prankster exposing himself. Western Australia Minister for Education Peter Collier said he clicked the “like” button under what ...
The controversy over the U.S. government’s secret subpoena of Associated Press telephone records has revived legislation that protect journalists from having to reveal their sources to federal investigators — and the White House is endorsing the idea. The proposal will not provide blanket protection ...
The annals of criminal history are writ large with ordinary streets that hide dark secrets, but even so the peculiar horror believed to have been perpetrated by Ariel Castro on Seymour Avenue in the rust-belt city of Cleveland stands out. He stands accused of ...