(EDS: ADDING INFO) An annular solar eclipse was observed over a wide area of Japan on Monday morning, including major cities on the Pacific coast of the Japane...
A lab examining the impact of the Fukushima nuclear crisis on fish has confirmed by tests that a type of freshwater salmon found in a wide area of Japan absorb...
With the London Olympics fast upon us, JRT introduces the athletes who will represent Japan at the 2012 Summer Games. This week: Hiroshi Hoketsu, who will comp...
(PR-inside.com) Value sales of vaginal antifungals rose by 6% in 2011. Female consumers are switching from prescription to OTC medications due to the sensitive...
On 12 April soldiers deposed the government in Guinea-Bissau, marking another coup in a country in which no leader since independence has completed a full term. Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Júnior, widely expected to win...
In Mali military officers overthrew President Amadou Toumani Touré in a coup on 22 March. The takeover followed a mutiny demanding better weapons to fight the Tuareg rebellion advancing across the north. Throughout the month...
In Syria, the Assad regime?s brutal crackdown on protesters and civilians, including the continued shelling of central city Homs, reached an unprecedented scale, exacerbating fears of outright civil war. The UN reported over 7,500 killed...
In Syria prospects of ending the crisis look bleak, with the UN Security Council struggling to agree on an appropriate response. The Assad regime?s brutal crackdown, including shelling of central city Homs, shows no sign...
In Iraq, the official withdrawal of the last U.S. combat troops, nearly nine years after the invasion, was quickly followed by a political crisis. Authorities issued an arrest warrant for the country?s top Sunni politician,...