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Silvio Berlusconi has failed in his attempt to topple the Italian government, leaving him weaker than ever and zapping the aura of invincibility that has surrounded him for two decades as he faces the possible loss of his Senate seat and a ban from ...
Hatsudai has a lot going for it. This quiet low-rise residential neighborhood just minutes west of Shinjuku boasts a friendly traditional shōtengai (shopping street) and a lively annual Awa Odori dance festival. Now add to that a really outstanding restaurant. Anis opened in early ...
International events undermine Japan's democracy. Shame on the International Olympic Committee for being a party to it.
In the glitzy and gossipy world of Japanese celebrity, hardly a week goes by without revelations being made about — or made by — Ichikawa Ebizo XI. For years, the charismatic young star of the kabuki world has never long been out of the ...
Reigning champion Kei Nishikori made quick work of Feliciano Lopez, walloping the Spaniard in a straight-sets victory Thursday to reach the quarterfinals of the Rakuten Japan Open. The world No. 13 Nishikori needed little over an hour to put away Lopez, 7-6 (7-4), 6-0 ...
Survivors built makeshift shelters with sticks and bedsheets Wednesday, a day after their mud houses were flattened in an earthquake that killed 348 people in southwestern Pakistan and pushed a new island up out of the Arabian Sea. While waiting for help to reach ...
A Sunni militant group known for targeting rival Muslims has emerged as a dangerous new player in Pakistan, sending a pair of suicide bombers this week to detonate themselves inside a church in the deadliest ever attack against Pakistani Christians. The brutal assault, which ...
An ambitious studio complex built by China’s richest man will be a major boost for the country’s film industry, but experts say it needs more than sprawling grounds to rival Hollywood. Global A-listers Nicole Kidman, Leonardo DiCaprio and Catherine Zeta-Jones showed up for the ...
Australian road safety researchers Wednesday unveiled a pioneering “attention-powered” car that uses a headset to monitor brain activity and slow acceleration during periods of distraction. The car, commissioned by the Royal Automobile Club of Western Australia, is about to depart on an awareness-raising road ...
The U.S. National Security Agency targeted India’s embassy in Washington and its U.N. office in New York with sophisticated surveillance equipment that might have resulted in hard disks being copied, a report said Wednesday. The Hindu newspaper said the Indian offices were on a ...
China on Wednesday executed a street food vendor who stabbed two officials following a street dispute, provoking outrage online. The Supreme Court upheld a death sentence against Xia Junfeng, who murdered two “city management” officials after a dispute over his street stall in 2009, ...
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh confirmed Wednesday he will meet his Pakistani counterpart this weekend in a major step toward better bilateral relations. Singh said he will hold talks with Nawaz Sharif on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, the first such meeting ...
The Australian Army failed to provide adequate security for three of its soldiers killed in Afghanistan last year by an Afghan colleague, the Defense Department concluded in a report released Wednesday in Canberra. On Aug. 29, 2012, a group of Australian soldiers were playing ...
Thousands in Pakistan ran into the streets praying for their lives Tuesday as a powerful earthquake rocked a remote area in the southwest, killing at least 39 people and possibly creating a small island off the coast. The Pakistani military said it was rushing ...
Cambodia’s parliament reappointed strongman Prime Minister Hun Sen for another five-year term Tuesday, extending his nearly three-decade rule as the opposition threatened to mount fresh protests over fiercely disputed elections. The controversial move came despite recent mass public demonstrations and a boycott of parliament ...
Police in eastern China were investigating the mysterious deaths of two young sisters found in a bloody washing machine over the weekend, a newspaper reported Tuesday. Local police in Jiangxi province have ruled out murder in the case, the Global Times newspaper said, citing ...
In a rare exception to strict Internet controls, a Hong Kong newspaper reported Tuesday that China’s first free trade zone will allow access to Facebook, Twitter and other websites that are currently banned nationwide. The Shanghai free trade zone, approved in August to boost ...