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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 ...
Relief teams were racing against time Saturday to rescue tens of thousands of stranded people in rain-ravaged northern India as the death toll from flash floods and landslides neared 600. Rescuers have recovered scores of bodies from the swollen River Ganges with nearly 63,000 ...
France said Thursday it will declare a state of natural disaster in the southwest of the country after floods claimed three lives and devastated Lourdes. Fears that the Catholic pilgrimage site could be forced to close its doors to visitors for months receded with ...
Global temperatures last month tied with 1998 and 2005 as the third warmest for May since record-keeping began in 1880, U.S. scientists said Thursday. Many areas of the world experienced higher-than-average warmth, including most of northern Siberia, western Russia, north and east Europe and ...
Military helicopters carried out emergency food drops Wednesday for thousands of people stranded by flash flooding from early monsoon rains that have killed at least 120 in northern India, officials said. The states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh have witnessed torrential rain at least ...
Four people have died and at least eight were missing Sunday as torrential rain lashed Central Europe, forcing hundreds to evacuate their homes after floods and landslides. Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic sent in army units to help with rescue efforts after rains ...
Officials expect that the killer tornado that leveled parts of Moore, Oklahoma, last week will turn out to be the most destructive in American history, but none of that damage, it appears, will be to the storm-chasing business. Hundreds of amateur storm chasers live ...
Seventy-five percent of the world’s tornados occur in the U.S., yet few people who live in “Tornado Alley” bother with the trouble and expense of a proper shelter from the storms. Mel Evridge, 69, a retired builder who experienced both Monday’s twister in his ...
A monstrous tornado at least 800 meters wide roars through Oklahoma City suburbs, flattening entire neighborhoods, destroying an elementary school and killing at least 91 people, including at least 20 children.
A lightning bolt is one of nature’s most over-the-top phenomena, rarely failing to elicit at least a ping of awe no matter how many times a person has witnessed one. With his iconic kite-and-key experiments in the mid-18th century, Benjamin Franklin showed that lightning ...
Millions of people in northern Europe are still battling snow and ice, wondering why they are being punished with bitter cold when — officially — spring has arrived and Earth is in the grip of global warming. Yet some scientists, eyeing the fourth year ...
Levels of carbon dioxide rose hand in hand with warming at the end of the last Ice Age, according to a study that deals a blow to climate skeptics. French researchers said Thursday that they had answered a riddle that has perplexed scientists. The ...
Sukayu, a hot springs resort area in Aomori Prefecture, registers the largest snowfall ever recorded by the nation's currently existing observatories.