Abe faces questions about donations

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Tuesday that he accepted donations from firms that received government subsidies as he personally faced questions about potentially improper donations for the first time.

Human waste problem reaches a peak

Human waste left by climbers on Qomolangma, also known as Mount Everest in the West, is causing pollution and threatens to spread disease on the world's highest peak, the head of Nepal's mountaineering association said on Tuesday.

It's raining cats and tourists on island

An army of feral cats rules a remote island in southern Japan, curling up in abandoned houses or strutting about in a fishing village overrun with felines that outnumber humans by six to one.

Top diplomats resume dialogue

India's top diplomat was in Pakistan on Tuesday for the first meeting with his counterpart since New Delhi called off talks seven months ago.

Trial studies protein linked to Alzheimer's

Alzheimer's researchers at Harvard for the first time are scanning the brains of healthy patients for the presence of a hallmark protein called tau, which forms toxic tangles of nerve fibers associated with the fatal disease.

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Rift may last till Obama term ends

A top US official warned on Tuesday that the current tensions between traditional allies US and Israel could last until the end of the Obama administration in 2016.

Origins of 2 AIDS strains traced to gorillas

Two of four strains of the virus that can cause AIDS come from gorillas in southwestern Cameroon, an international team of scientists reported in studies published on Monday in the United States.

World's first all-electric satellites go into orbit

A Space Exploration Technologies rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Sunday to put the world's first all - electric communications satellites into orbit.

Study says penguins prospered after ice age

They prefer freezing conditions, but Antarctica's emperor penguins may have struggled with the overwhelming cold of the last ice age, a study said on Monday.

Peking Opera wows Detroit crowd

The spirit of Mei Lanfang, the first Peking Opera master to bring the art to the United States early in the last century, was revived on Sunday as a Chinese troupe performed for more than 1,000 spectators in Detroit, Michigan, a center of automobile manufacturing.

Casinos hope to cash in on rising wealth

More than three years after opening the luxurious nightclub Pangaea in Singapore's glitzy Marina Bay Sands, owner Michael Van Cleef Ault is now betting that Manila's casinos will be able to draw rich gamblers and partygoers through his doors.