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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 ...
A mentally ill Chinese man has been kept in a cage for more than a decade by his family after he beat a child to death, local media reported, carrying images of him staring blankly though the bars. Wu Yuanhong, 42, was shown sitting ...
In the annals of bizarre bureaucratic desk jobs, the Chinese government may have all others beat. Officials in charge of censoring pornography for the southern province of Hunan gave a rare and revealing peek into the strange (and quite possibly libido-numbing) demands of their ...
The United States has given back to Mongolia the remains of a 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus skeleton stolen from the Gobi Desert and sold at auction in New York. The nearly complete skeleton of the Tyrannosaurus bataar, a cousin of the fearsome T. rex, had been ...
Unamused Chinese censors have been hard at work trying to stop people sniggering over the new Beijing headquarters of the People’s Daily newspaper, which bear a resemblance to a giant penis. Photos of the imposing tower, which is still under construction, had Internet users ...
New Zealand officials Wednesday released a list of 77 baby names proposed by parents that were rejected because they were too bizarre or offensive, including “Lucifer” and “Mafia No Fear.” The list shows one child was set to be called “Anal” before the Department ...
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has announced a renewed push for the death penalty, as well as life sentences for rape, saying that “draconian” penalties were needed to tackle violent crime, local media reported Wednesday. O’Neill said the impoverished Pacific nation would ...
The Swiss luxury hotel chain Kempinski is dropping plans to open a huge pyramid-shaped hotel that has stood half-built for decades in North Korea amid tensions on the peninsula. “Kempinski Hotels confirms that KEY International had initial discussions to operate a hotel in Pyongyang. ...
In a country of almost 1.4 billion people, life for Chinese is an unending struggle for resources. And it doesn’t get easier in death. Prices for graves are skyrocketing, driven by decades of unbridled development and scarce city land. The government’s answer to this ...
Wrists bent and fingers curled, the immaculately dressed dancers perform a series of gestures that, according to ancient custom, carry the wishes of the Khmer kings to the heavens. Sporting golden head-dresses, the dancers slowly stretch back their wrists and — standing on one ...
India’s remote northeast is home to an ancient tribe whose high regard for women makes it a striking anomaly in the male-dominated country. But the region has become a staging ground for an unlikely battle in which men are trying to end a matrilineal ...
Supermarkets across New Zealand stocked up with Marmite for the first time in more than a year Wednesday, as a shortage of the breakfast spread caused by the Christchurch earthquake came to an end. In a crisis dubbed “Marmageddon,” the country’s only Marmite factory ...
One young contender created the world’s largest sequin mosaic using 325,000 of the sparkly discs. Two other youths achieved 123 consecutive badminton passes in one minute. And 1,450 participants broke the record for the most people arm wrestling. Such are the skills that Guinness ...