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Japan PM's future in doubt after election debacle
AFP, Published on 21/07/2025
» TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's future was unclear on Monday after his coalition appeared to have disastrously lost its upper house majority in elections that saw strong gains by a right-wing populist party.
Japan PM faces reckoning in upper house election
AFP, Published on 20/07/2025
» TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces a reckoning from voters on Sunday with upper house elections that could end his premiership and see a right-wing populist party make inroads.
Former Ireland boss Schmidt appointed All Blacks selector
AFP, Published on 14/12/2021
» WELLINGTON - Joe Schmidt was named as an All Blacks selector Tuesday, but will not take up the role until after his former team Ireland tour New Zealand next year.
Men in China go under the knife to boost life chances
AFP, Published on 09/09/2021
» BEIJING - Worried his appearance would detract from opportunities in China's competitive society, Xia Shurong decided to go under the surgeon's knife to reshape his nose -- one of millions of young men in the country turning to cosmetic surgery.
Body work: Russia's 'biohackers' push boundaries
AFP, Published on 18/02/2020
» MOSCOW - Gripping a scalpel, Vladislav Zaitsev makes an incision in the fold of skin between his client's thumb and index finger and pushes in a small glass cylinder.
Rock'n'rolling stock: Rod Stewart creates his own downtown train
AFP, Published on 13/11/2019
» LONDON: British pop stalwart Rod Stewart has spent decades laying down tracks of a different kind thanks to a little-known lifelong hobby -- building model railways.
Chess and boxing create 'essence of excellence'
AFP, Published on 29/09/2019
» PARIS - Dripping with sweat, gasping for breath and desperately trying to refocus after fending off hooks and throwing uppercuts, Nikopol warily moves his bishop across the chessboard...
Kitsch and confidence at Huawei HQ despite US pressure
AFP, Published on 31/05/2019
» SHENZHEN (CHINA) - Emblazoned across a wall at Huawei headquarters is a motto that appears to sum up the attitude of the huge Chinese telecom company toward its multiplying challenges: "Success requires friends. Tremendous success requires enemies."
Kitsch and confidence at Huawei HQ despite US pressure
AFP, Published on 31/05/2019
» SHENZHEN (CHINA) - Emblazoned across a wall at Huawei headquarters is a motto that appears to sum up the attitude of the huge Chinese telecom company toward its multiplying challenges: "Success requires friends. Tremendous success requires enemies."
Curtains for The Big Bang Theory, unlikely ratings giant
AFP, Published on 15/05/2019
» NEW YOR: Peopled by sometimes-awkward geeks making physics references, The Big Bang Theory, whose finale episode airs Thursday, seemed destined at first to appeal to a niche audience.