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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 wide-ranging probe into woolly mammoths has added to evidence that they were wiped out by climate change. British and Swedish researchers sequenced DNA from 88 samples of mammoth bone, tooth and tusk, looking for a signature in the genetic code that is handed ...
Some of the tiniest frogs on Earth have no middle ears or eardrums but can hear by using their mouths, scientists have found. Gardiner’s frogs live in the rain forests of the Seychelles, a series of 115 small islands in the Indian Ocean, north ...
Seconds after Mike Braun spotted the deer in his headlights, his 6-day-old car had $8,000 worth of damage, including a punctured radiator. “It could have been a lot worse,” said the consultant, who lives in Washington, as he recalled his drive home from the ...
Whooping cranes learn how to migrate by following elders in their midst, suggesting that social influence has a larger bearing than genetics on the birds’ behavior, scientists say. The large white birds are endangered in the wild of North America, with just one native ...
The U.S. West is on the verge of a serious horse crisis, says a new paper in Science, which argues that the wild horse population is growing so fast that the government could soon be unable to manage the herds. There are currently some ...
Otters can help rejuvenate sea grasses, a vulnerable natural resource that protects coastlines and provides habitats for fish, according to new research. Scientists examined how the sea grasses in one area of California rebounded when otters returned to the area, and found that the ...
A giant “terror bird” deemed to have been one of Earth’s top predators after the demise of the dinosaurs was in fact probably a plant-loving herbivore, German scientists have reported. Paleontologists have wrangled for years about Gastornis, a huge flightless bird that lived between ...
To some they are a nuisance, even a danger. To others, London’s 10,000 foxes are a delightful reminder that this concrete wilderness is teeming with wildlife. The ruddy brown creatures seem out of place on the streets of the British capital — but they ...
A cull of thousands of badgers aimed at combating tuberculosis in cattle has begun in Britain, the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) said Tuesday, sparking anger among animal rights activists. Some 5,000 of the black-and-white creatures are set to be shot under two pilot programs ...
The larva of a Vietnamese moth has devised a unique form of transport — constructing a leaf cone and thrashing about inside to make it jump, a recent study showed. Even more remarkably, the tiny caterpillar manages to steer its leafy vehicle in a ...
A giant panda gave birth to a cub Friday at the U.S. National Zoo in Washington, raising hopes for a rare success after a series of false pregnancies, officials said. “WE HAVE A CUB!!” the zoo announced on Twitter after female giant panda Mei ...
From the elephant to the mayfly, biologists say there is a general rule about longevity: the bigger the animal, the longer it lives. But an intriguing exception is the Brandt’s bat, a native of temperate areas of Europe and Asia. The insect-munching mammal tips ...