AP A car bomb exploded outside a mosque Sunday, killing at least 37 people and wounding another 141 in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi — the third mass-casualty attack on the minority sect in the country this ...
It's a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chinese warships in the East China Sea challenged Japan's Maritime Self Defense Forces patrols in a manner deemed threatening. And on Feb. 12 came North Korea's nuclear test.
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, ...
Kenta Maeda shook off worries about his form with five shutout innings as Japan beat China 5-2 in first-round Pool A of the World Baseball Classic on Sunday at Fukuoka Dome. Japan improved to 2-0 following a tough win over Brazil in Saturday evening’s ...
Chelsea broke Brentford’s resistance with a potent second-half attacking display to eliminate the third-tier club from the F.A. Cup at the second attempt with a 4-0 victory on Sunday, while Manchester City crushed Leeds by the same score. Held by Brentford three weeks ago, ...
The English Premier League trophy slipped further from Manchester City’s grasp after the champions lost 3-1 at Southampton on Saturday and gave Manchester United the opportunity to surge 12 points clear. City’s calamitous night on the south coast was summed up at the start ...
Liverpool did traditional rival Manchester United a huge favor in the Premier League on Sunday, holding Manchester City to a 2-2 draw to leave the stuttering champions nine points behind their neighbors in the title race. Sergio Aguero’s 79th-minute equalizer earned City a scarcely ...
You may think a guy who has to pay his ex-wife £82,000 — a day yes, a day — would have learned a financial lesson or two, but Silvio Berlusconi, the former prime minister of Italy and president of AC Milan, continues to be ...
