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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 ...
Organized crime is so big globally that if it were a country, it would be part of the Group of 20 group of major economies, the Australian government said Tuesday. Releasing the Australian Crime Commission’s biennial report on the issue, Home Affairs Minister Jason ...
An anti-coal activist has been charged with issuing a fake press release that temporarily wiped more than 300 million Australian dollars ($276 million) from the share price of Whitehaven Coal. Jonathan Moylan, 25, faced a Sydney court Tuesday on a charge of contravening the ...
A Chinese court awarded damages to the mother of a rape victim after she was sent to a labor camp for demanding her daughter’s attackers be punished, a spokesman said Monday. Tang Hui, who became a figurehead for critics of the “re-education through labor” ...
A Bangladesh tribunal sentenced the former chief of the country’s biggest Islamic party to spend the rest of his life in prison for crimes against humanity committed during the country’s war of independence four decades ago. Ghulam Azam, 91, was found guilty of torture ...
A Singapore policeman once portrayed as a model officer was charged Monday with the gruesome double murder of a businessman and his son in a case that has shocked the city-state. Senior Staff Sgt. Iskandar Rahmat, 34, could face hanging if convicted of murdering ...
Chinese police have detained four top executives of British drug firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in China for alleged bribery and other offenses, state media said Monday. Four managers whose responsibilities included operations, human resources, legal affairs and business development had committed “serious” economic crimes, the ...
A backhoe driver has described in chilling detail how he used the excavator to bury the 58 victims of the Philippines’ worst political massacre, according to a video aired Tuesday. The man said he dug a hole near where the victims were shot by ...
An 11-year-old New Zealand boy was reported Saturday to have fathered a child last year with the 36-year-old mother of a school friend, raising questions on why women cannot be charged with rape. Counselors working in the area of child sexual abuse said the ...
A man accused of deliberately setting a deadly blaze that ripped through a Sydney nursing home in 2011, in which 11 elderly residents were killed, pleaded guilty to murder Monday. Roger Dean, 37, was a nurse at the facility and entered 11 guilty pleas ...
A transsexual woman in Hong Kong won a groundbreaking court appeal Monday allowing her to marry her boyfriend and forcing the government to rewrite the city’s marriage laws. The woman, in her 30s, known in the Court of Final Appeal as “W” under anonymity ...
North Korea has sentenced a U.S. citizen to 15 years of prison labor for “hostile acts” against the communist regime, the country’s official Korean Central News Agency reported Thursday. Pae Jun Ho, known in the United States as Kenneth Bae, was arrested in November ...
A U.S. academic says she was gang-raped by an armed mob in Papua New Guinea and wants to publicize her ordeal to raise awareness about rampant violence against women in the desperately poor Pacific country. The attack comes barely a week after an Australian ...