TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to hold a press conference as early as this week about his health after recent visits to a hospital stoked public concern, local media reported on Tuesday. Abe on Monday visited a Tokyo hospital for the second time within days, saying he had received the results […]

MUMBAI (Reuters) – Rescue workers pulled more than 60 people alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in an industrial town near India’s financial capital Mumbai, a senior official said on Tuesday, as rescue efforts continued. The five storey building near a slum district in Mahad, which housed roughly 200 residents, caved in on […]

New York’s habit of offering blanket protections for renters has a serious dark side, as Heidi Russell is learning. Russell rented out the second bedroom of her Barrow Street co-op to Kate Gladstone — who allegedly turned out to be a roommate from hell. On Saturday, a judge ruled that Russell can’t evict the woman […]

(Reuters) – The U.S. government placed an additional hurdle in front of Alaska’s Pebble Mine project on Monday, giving developers 90 days to explain how they would offset damage to wetlands and popular fishing sites amid rising opposition to the project by prominent Republicans. The stipulation, in a letter from the U.S. Army Corps of […]

Rainbow carriages that are the Pride of the fleet: Britain’s first fully decorated train staffed by LGBT crew is set to make first journey today The train is decorated with a rainbow flag and staffed by LGBT crew members Paintwork was also applied to represent Asian and minority ethnic communities Pink, blue and white paint […]

A New Jersey girl who vanished from a park nearly a year ago was likely snatched by a predator hunting for an opportunity to grab a child, according to a new report. A lead investigator in the kidnapping of Dulce Maria Alavez shared new details about the case in an interview with NJ Advance Media, […]

Public Advocate Jumaane Williams last week wrote Police Commissioner Dermot O’Shea demanding answers about “rumors” that the NYPD “is taking part in a deliberate slowdown,” implying that this is the explanation for the “horrific rise in shootings across every borough.” What effing chutzpah. Williams has devoted much of his career to handcuffing the NYPD. As […]

(Reuters) – The U.S. government placed an additional hurdle in front of Alaska’s Pebble Mine project on Monday, giving developers 90 days to explain how they would offset damage to wetlands and prominent fishing sites following opposition to the project by prominent Republicans in recent weeks. The stipulation, in a letter from the U.S. Army […]

LIMA (Reuters) – Peru, battling one of the world’s worst coronavirus outbreaks and a five-month lockdown, was reeling on Monday after the deaths of 13 people, most of them young women, in a stampede at an illegal nightclub triggered by a police raid. The tragedy at the club, which authorities called “a breeding ground” for […]

Three grannies armed with air pistols have branded themselves "monkey busters" in a bid to scare off pesky crop-raiding macaques. The women from Keiishi Town, in Fukui City, Japan, formed the crack team earlier this year and have readied themselves to strike whenever they see the mischievous primates up to no good. Local media reports […]