North Korea appears to have fired a ballistic missile from a submarine off its eastern coast, South Korea says. It is not clear whether the test was authentic, and if it was, whether it will be considered a success by the North. A successful test would be significant because submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) are hard to detect. It comes as North Korea gears up for a rare and significant party congress next month ... ....
Foreign leaders visiting KingSalman of Saudi Arabia have noticed that there is a large flower display just in front of the 80-year-old monarch ... Of course, King Salman is not the only world leader past or present whose inability to cope has been artfully concealed by aides and courtiers ... ....
(CNN)Eight family members found dead in a rural southern Ohio community were shot in the head "execution style," most while they slept, authorities said Friday. Officers are searching for the killer or killers, who are probably armed and a danger to surviving family members, Pike CountySheriffCharlesReader said ... "I've given the family precautionary measures to make. They know we're available." ... Read More ... 'Doesn't happen every day' ... ......
Brazilian PresidentDilma Rousseff on Friday said she would appeal to South American trade blocs if she is removed from office, blasting the push to impeach her as a coup and a naked attempt by Brazil’s elite to snatch power back from her Worker’s Party... She told her opponents that her impeachment would have “serious consequences for the Brazilian political process.” ... “I can’t say today what is going to happen ... ....
NEW YORK (AP) — In a matchup of old friends from the Far East, Hisashi Iwakuma made one mistake too many. Alex Rodriguez snapped his hitless skid with an early two-run homer off Iwakuma that sent the New York Yankees past the Seattle Mariners4-3 on Sunday, ending their four-game losing streak ... in Tokyo ... Nori Aoki tripled and scored on Seth Smith's single ... I thought Kumo kept the ball down better later in the game than he did early ... ... ....
By Shinji Abe / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff WriterThe former Naval Academy (see below), on the island of Etajima in Hiroshima Bay, sent out its fair share of naval officers ... They stay on Etajima for a maximum of one year ... Furutaka in the background ... PrevNext ... Location shooting for NHK’s special drama, “Saka no Ue no Kumo” (Clouds above the hill) was conducted in 2009 at the large lecture hall built in 1917 that stands beside “the red brick.” ... ....
She was the Garbo of Japan, the great shining star of the golden era in Japanese film making ... she moved among them within an indefinable aura of mystery, a physical presence so discreet, it could hardly be called present at all ... She was averse to publicity and rarely gave interviews ... Hara next appeared in Hisatora Kumagai's Non-chan kumo ni noru (Non-chan in the Clouds, 1955), based on a well-loved children's classic ... Hara and Ozu....
Brisbane band ToxicBears are serious about their music, less so about the music business ... or turning a profit. Some people go to church. We play in a band ... We merge punk with Latin, funk, Jamaican disco, the Purdie shuffle ... We’re serious about our music. We are not serious about the music business ... KumoTokage (“SpiderLizard”), a funk rock ensemble with a trumpet and an electric violinist, opened up and had the crowd on their feet ... Bow....
The notebook also carried a draft of the poem “Rempo no Kumo” (clouds on a mountain range), a hanging scroll of which was believed to be Yosano’s last official work ... The poem reads “WagaTatsu wa, Jukkoku-toge, Jukkoku no, Yamayama ni Aru, Kumo mo Utsukushiki” (I stand at the Jukkoku-toge pass, clouds over mountains seen from the pass are beautiful)....
[Vanguard] THE FederalMortgageBank of Nigeria, FMBN, is set to engage with the 774 local government areas in the country on how best the bank's housing initiatives can be extended to them. Managing Director, FMBN, Mr Gimba Yaú Kumo, who disclosed this in an interview with a news portal, listed various ways of addressing the housing deficit in the country ... ....