A police raid on a home in Redmond, Washington, snared more than guns, drugs and prostitutes. It netted ex-Seattle Sonics player Robert Swift. Robert Swift is one of professional basketball’s cautionary tales. Drafted out of high school in 2004 at
World stock markets mostly rebounded Friday after a fall in U.S. unemployment applications and comments from a Federal Reserve official eased nerves about a stalling economic recovery. KEEPING SCORE: After sharp falls earlier this week, European markets shot higher, continuing
HYDERABAD, India (AP) — More than 1,000 rescue workers and soldiers cleared piles of uprooted trees and electrical poles blocking roads on Monday after powerful Cyclone Hudhud slammed into India’s eastern coast, killing at least eight people and demolishing tens
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Patrick Modiano of France, who has made a lifelong study of the Nazi occupation and its effects on his country, won the 2014 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for what one academic called “crystal clear and resonant”
TOKYO (AP) — A powerful typhoon that washed three American airmen in Okinawa out to sea, killing at least one, slammed central Japan on Monday, stalling trains and flights and triggering mudslides, before swerving to the Pacific Ocean. Elsewhere in
The Peace Research Institute in Oslo (PRIO), an institution which attempts to predict the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize each year, has said that Pope Francis and Edward Snowden are among the best bets to secure this year’s Nobel
Until now, a common understanding of the details surrounding Iranian Dr. Ardeshir Hosseinpour’s death was that he was reportedly assassinated in 2007, and presumably at the hands of Israel, which had hoped to slow-down Iran’s nuclear program through clandestine operations.
(AFP) — An ancient contact sport rooted in Indian mythology and said to date back 5,000 years, “kabaddi” is proving a knockout at the Asian Games as its popularity spreads. Fans in South Korea enthusiastically turned out to watch the
On Saturday, we reported that journalist and former sex worker Brooke Magnanti, who shot to fame under the pen name Belle de Jour, had been accused of sockpuppeting by London barrister Anya Palmer. Now allegations have surfaced that Magnanti plagiarised
KISO, Japan (AP) — Five more bodies were found near the summit of a Japanese volcano on Monday, bringing the total presumed dead to 36, police said, as toxic gases and ash from the still-erupting mountain forced rescue workers to
TOKYO (AP) — Rescue workers have found 30 or more people unconscious and believed to be dead near the peak of an erupting volcano in central Japan, local government and police said. Nagano prefecture posted on its website that about
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called Tuesday for North Korea to shut down its “evil system” of prison camps. Kerry spoke at a gathering of foreign officials and activists to draw attention to the findings
South Korea’s government is denying claims that they have information showing North Korea is working on a new class of missiles to carry tactical nuclear warheads. On September 23, The Japan Times pointed to a report by JoongAng Ilbo, a South Korean newspaper,
Financial expert and author, Joe Hoft, told Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon that America’s exorbitant spending on social programs is a disaster waiting to happen, on par with or greater than the bank meltdown in 2008. Appearing on
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba’s unprecedented effort to stop a devastating baseball talent drain doesn’t seem to be working, with a string of stars leaving for the major leagues in the year since the government allowed a small number to play
Last week, Glenn Reynolds (the great Instapundit) remarked that “when lobbying pays better than any other investment” you end up with a decline in entrepreneurship. Indeed, recent data shows that start-up businesses are on the decline. The Daily Signal recently
The repressive communist government of North Korea has released a 53,000-word report it claims definitively proves that the nation not only respects human rights, but has the world’s “most advantageous human rights system.” The report, translated through several media outlets,
A Chinese state-run newspaper Thursday urged Beijing to say whether its ambassador to Iceland was a spy following reports he had been held for leaking intelligence to Japan, while authorities said they had “no information” on the matter. The editorial
The leaders of the world’s two most populous countries joined forces today for the first of a three day summit designed to improve their troubled, but hugely important relationship. India’s newly elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi is playing host to
North Korea’s communist regime has pledged their support for an independent Scotland. North Korea has stated their explicit interest in trading natural resources in exchange for some delicious whiskey, even if their sovereignty does not become a reality under the
The world’s premiere pariah state appears to have come out in favour of Scottish independence, as North Korean “officials” in Japan say they “believe independence will be positive as it will encourage personal exchanges and provide both countries with business
The US is currently in talks with Japan to supply “offensive weapons” which would make it easier for Japan to “project power far beyond its borders.” According to Reuters, Tokyo is holding the talks, which are informal at this point
China and Russia will build one of the largest ports in northeast Asia on Russia’s Sea of Japan coast, reports said, in a further sign of the powerhouses’ growing alliance. The seaport is expected to be able to handle some
(Reuters) – Japan’s nuclear regulator gave the go-ahead on Wednesday for the restart of a nuclear power station, the first step to reopening an industry that was mothballed after the Fukushima disaster and which may involve the definitive closure of
China is now building factories and what appears to be a runway for the takeoff and landing of military jets on disputed islands in the South China Sea. Some of the islands are mapped, some are not. The latter are
