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Japan plans to unveil an economic stimulus package next week to shore up a recovery threatened by a strong yen and deflation, after ruling coalition squabbles delayed an announcement Friday.
President Barack Obama's envoy for North Korea makes a rare visit to the reclusive communist state on Tuesday pursuing a mission analysts say has little chance of breaking the stalemate over Pyongyang's nuclear arms program.
The United States will face England at the World Cup for the first time since a famous upset 60 years ago, then play Slovenia and Algeria in the first round of next year's tournament.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) -- Five-time winner Brazil was stung by a tough draw for the 2010 World Cup on Friday while co-favorite Spain was given an easy ride through to the second round.
Houston Mayor Bill White abandoned his campaign for U.S. Senate on Friday in favor of a run for Texas governor.
Back from orbit and ready to market, Space beer is splashing down for selected brewski-nauts in Japan this month.
Japan's All Nippon Airways (9202.T) said it and fellow StarAlliance members United Airlines and Continental Airlines plan to apply for antitrust immunity to allow closer cooperation on transpacific routes.
Reaction to the draw for the 2010 World Cup finals made in Cape Town on Friday:
2010 World Cup finals schedule after Friday's draw in Cape Town:
TODAY Sacramento State's Japan Club and members of the community will spend this Sunday folding one thousand paper cranes to send to the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Japan. Sunday's event will be the Japan Club's second annual Origami-A-Thon. The Origami-A-Thon aims to promote world peace by folding one thousand paper cranes held together by strings.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong, one of the world’s most densely populated areas, is looking to Tokyo for a solution to a perennial issue -- what to do with the dead.
Brazil and Portugal were sent on a World Cup collision course when the final draw was made here Friday while Lady Luck smiled on England.
Is it a planet? Is it a brown dwarf? Either way, astronomers say their direct image of newly identified planet-like object, orbiting a Sun-like star, is a big achievement
Australia will play three-time champions Germany while North Korea face favourites Brazil at the World Cup in South Africa, as Asian nations were dealt a tough draw on Friday.
Suntory, the Japanese brewer, agreed to buy a South Carolina-based Pepsi bottler in an effort to increase its overseas presence.
Draw for 2010 World Cup made here Friday:
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