Paul Hillier never gave much thought to fashion.
Air carriers are watching the situation at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant closely, making contingency plans and routing adjustments to keep operations running smoothly and protect passengers and crew from radiation risks.
CNN's Andrew Stevens talks to Victor Chu of First Eastern Investment about plans to help ANA launch a low-cost carrier.
The phrase "normal is an allusion" is written upside down on the front door. Colorful Harajuku Tutu skirts, a Japanese fashion staple, and salvaged denim fills the funky space inside the store called Fearless Weirdos.
CNN's Emily Change explains what efforts China has made to make the Shanghai World Expo successful.
Despite a tabloid calling her seriously sick, the diva appeared "in great shape" at a show
Japanese police said Tuesday they had arrested a suspect in the death of a young British woman who was found dead in a bath of sand two years ago.
The IAAF World Championships in track and field kick off on Saturday morning in Berlin and run through Sunday Aug. 23. Here are five things to look for at the upcoming championships:
A Jetstar flight with 203 passengers and crew aboard landed safely in Guam early Thursday after a fire broke out in the plane's cockpit, the airline said.
Japanese stocks ended six days of gains Tuesday. CNN's Eunice Yoon reports.
She is only 37 years old, but violinist Midori Goto has already spent 25 years taking center-stage with the world's best orchestras.
A Power of music
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Midori Goto's love affair with the violin goes beyond the pleasure of playing to the way in which music connects people.
A 3-month-old girl born to an Indian surrogate mother has flown to Japan to join her biological father after spending the first months of her life in legal limbo.
CNN's Sara Sidner explains the complicated history of a surrogate baby who is finally being allowed to leave for Japan.
The southern Japanese island of Kyushu is a world away from the bustling urban centers of Tokyo and Osaka and a place that still holds on tight to its traditions, Dan Hayes writes.
Here was a metaphor screaming to be expressed. Asafa Powell, sweating.
The Beijing games beckoned, far in the distance, as three sprinters aligned themselves last winter for a run at the grandest title in track and field -- Olympic 100-meter champion. They had clearly defined roles: the favorite, the record holder, the upstart.
Finance ministers from the Group of Eight industrialized nations urged oil producers Saturday to boost output
Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 3. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays, click here.
Financial scandals force the closure of Japan's largest chain of English language schools, leaving many of its foreign teachers out of work -- and up in arms
In a country of diverse cultures and languages, it's hard finding the right lyrics for the national anthem
Twenty-six musings on the just-completed world track and field championships, one year out from the Beijing Olympic Games.
Here was movement sweeter than beautiful music or fine wine, a combination of speed and style that ever so briefly transcends sport. We see it rarely in person and squeeze our eyes shut to remember it in ways that YouTube cannot convey.
Earlier this week, I climbed onto a shuttle bus from the U.S. team hotel at the world track and field championships, where I had been doing an interview with an athlete. The bus idling at the curb was the most efficient way to get the meandering 60 minutes through rush hour traffic to Osaka Nagai Stadium. Sitting three rows back along the aisle was 24-year-old U.S. 1,500-meter runner Alan Webb, who would run that evening in the semifinals of his event.
Here is what the young man told his coach two years ago: I took care of myself. I'm fine. And so the coach let an ugly controversy drop. He pulled back and allowed the young man to grow and Tuesday night on a running track halfway around the world from home, Kerron Clement won the gold medal in the 400-meter hurdles at the world track and field championships.
The world track and field championships begin here Saturday morning. Eight matchups I'm looking forward to seeing:
Four truths from the 11th World Track and Field Championships, now three days old in steamy Osaka, Japan.
A sprinter writes his legacy in contrary moments, trying to mix desperate athletic passion with the calm required to sustain perfect running technique. The body wants to thrash like a child on the playground, flailing toward the finish line. The mind must make it chill, for thrashing is slow and inefficient and leads to defeat. In fractions of a second, champions are divided from the merely swift.
On a Sunday afternoon in the spring of 2001, Alan Webb ran a mile faster than any other U.S. high school runner in history. More than 11,000 spectators rose in a frenzy to cheer the epic performance at Oregon's Hayward Field, and many more embraced it from afar. Webb clocked 3:53.43 that day, nearly two seconds faster than Jim Ryun had run 36 years earlier. World-record holder and race winner Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco invited Webb to share his victory lap. David Letterman invited him to share his stage.
Two days of finals in the books. Time to run an old-fashioned two-mile around the USA Track and Field national championships. Eight laps: We'll let Tyson Gay start and Bernard Lagat finish. Beat that.
AR: Anjali Rao TA: Tadao Ando
This month on Business Traveller we're taking another look at some of the stories and issues you wanted to see again.
This month CNN Business Traveller is in Japan as Richard Quest samples the country's delicacies and customs and tries to survive on a tight budget.
New technology may be on the verge of providing us with the ability to store and file details of our lives far beyond our natural capacity to remember, creating the possibility of personal "Black Box"-style recorders capable of chronicling entire lives.
The vodka may be cheap, but according to the latest cost-of-living survey from Mercer Consulting, Moscow now ranks as the world's most expensive city, edging out Tokyo, which held the No. 1 spot for four straight years.
A Qantas Airlines plane has made an emergency landing in Osaka, Japan, because of suspected smoke in the cargo hold, the airline said.
For six young women from Spelman College in Georgia, a competition to teach robotic dogs how to play soccer has also taught them a lot about their own abilities to break down stereotypes.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - It's hard to make New Yorkers feel good about the absurd amounts of money required to live comfortably in Gotham. But a survey out this week might at least make them feel a little better.
For football fans with a spare €25,000 ($32,500), German scientists have created the ultimate tech-toy -- a robotic foosball machine.
Japanese investigators are probing the cause of a commuter train crash that has left at least 73 people dead and hundreds more injured.
In Japan's deadliest rail accident in more than 40 years, a commuter train went off the tracks during Monday morning rush hour outside Osaka in central Japan, killing 49 people and injuring more than 200 others, many seriously, authorities said.
Japanese pining for an economic revival have been cheered by the success of Osaka's baseball team, the Hanshin Tigers. For diehard fans, the Tigers are a perennial disappointment. But it is an endu...
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