Tokyo prosecutors arrest CEO of ad firm ADK, 2 others over Olympics bribe,Tokyo prosecutors on Wednesday arrested the president and two former employees of Japanese advertising firm ADK Holdings Inc over suspected bribery related to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Japanese media said. The arrests mark the latest widening of a corruption scandal involving Olympic sponsors that has centered on a former member…
Tokyo prosecutors arrest CEO of ad firm ADK, 2 others over Olympics bribe
Tokyo prosecutors on Wednesday arrested the president and two former employees of Japanese advertising firm ADK Holdings Inc over suspected bribery related to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Japanese media said. The arrests mark the latest widening of a corruption scandal involving Olympic sponsors that has centered on a former member…
AFL says umpires correct with Perth final siren call,The AFL has backed the controversial call that decided North Melbourne's one-point win over Fremantle in Perth, saying the umpires were right.The league has released video of the frenetic last few seconds in Saturday night's match at Optus Stadium. Tags:FremantleJustin LongmuirSportsumpiresyahoo.com
Family files missing persons report for rapper Theophilus London,The family of rapper Theophilus London filed a missing persons report with Los Angeles police this week and are asking for the public's help, saying he hasn't been seen in months. London's family and friends believe someone last spoke to the musician in July in Los Angeles, according to the… Tags:Japan Todayjapantoday.com
A baby for sale in Korean drama ‘Broker’,The Korean drama “ Broker ” begins like a noir. A young woman walks slowly in the pouring rain in the middle of the night in Busan, her flimsy hood doing little to keep her dry. She looks haunted but determined and soon we see her destination: A church with… Tags:Japan Todayjapantoday.com
Tech billionaires see wealth shrink amid 2022 stock crunch,The fortunes of Silicon Valley billionaires took a beating in 2022 as share prices of the world's tech giants plummeted. Here are some of the worst hit by this year's tech stock downturn. Elon Musk After becoming the world's richest person in 2021, the Tesla and SpaceX boss saw over… Tags:Japan Todayjapantoday.com
Pelé, Brazil’s mighty king of ‘beautiful game,’ dies at 82,Pelé, the Brazilian king of soccer who won a record three World Cups and became one of the most commanding sports figures of the last century, died Thursday. He was 82. The standard-bearer of “the beautiful game” had undergone treatment for colon cancer since 2021. The medical center where he… Tags:Japan Todayjapantoday.com
The TV shows, movies on celebrities' own winter watchlists,The weather outside may be frightful, but the myriad viewing options inside can be nothing short of delightful. During interviews in recent weeks, The Associated Press asked celebrities promoting their own projects in Europe what they planned to watch this winter season: LUCAS BRAVO and DARREN STAR ("Emily in Paris"):… Tags:Japan Todayjapantoday.com
62-year-old man arrested after drowning roommate in bathtub,Police in Tokyo have arrested a 62-year-old man on suspicion of killing a 58-year-old man with whom he shared an apartment, by drowning him in a bathtub. The incident occurred at the two men’s apartment in Ota Ward on Dec 22, Kyodo News reported. Police said Takeyoshi Izumi has admitted… Tags:Japan Todayjapantoday.com
German clubs face long wait to play again after World Cup,Spare a thought for German soccer fans over the holidays. Not only did their national team's World Cup end embarrassingly early in the group stage, they face a long wait to see any club games. The German Bundesliga doesn't return from its post-World Cup break until Jan. 20. That's by… Tags:Japan Todayjapantoday.com
Fire after highway crash in South Korea kills 5, injures 37,A freight truck collided with a bus on a highway near the South Korean capital Seoul on Thursday, causing a fire that killed at least five people and injuring 37 others, officials said. It wasn’t immediately known what caused the collision and the fire and what cargo the truck was… Tags:Japan Todayjapantoday.com
Djokovic says no hard feelings over Australian deportation,Novak Djokovic has reiterated his earlier comments that he bears no hard feelings on his return to Australia after his visa cancellation and subsequent deportation in January ahead of the Australian Open tennis tournament. Djokovic was deported almost 12 months ago after arriving unvaccinated against COVID-19 at a time when… Tags:Japan Todayjapantoday.com
Brazil's Lula appoints record-high 11 women to his cabinet,Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva completed its future cabinet on Thursday with the appointment of 16 ministers, just three days before he is officially sworn-in. As anticipated, Lula picked Amazon activist Marina Silva as his environment minister. He also announced his planning minister will be Simone Tebet, a… Tags:Japan Todayjapantoday.com
Granerud wins Four Hills opener as Kobayashi flops,Norway's Halvor Egner Granerud won ski jumping's Four Hills opening round on Thursday as defending champion Ryoyu Kobayashi of Japan flopped in 15th place. Granerud scored 312.4 points for his two jumps, which included an impressive 142.5m, to defeat Polish pair, Piotr Zyla (at 13.4 points) and Dawid Kubacki (17.5… Tags:Japan Todayjapantoday.com
Myanmar court finds Suu Kyi guilty on 5 counts of corruption,A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Friday convicted deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi on five counts of corruption and jailed her for a combined seven years, a source familiar with her trial said, wrapping up the last remaining cases against her. In a court session held behind closed doors,… Tags:Japan Todayjapantoday.com
Ethiopian police enter Tigray capital under peace agreement,Ethiopia’s federal police said Thursday that its members have entered the Tigray region’s capital Mekele for the first time in more than a year, under last month's peace deal between the federal government and Tigray leaders. The peace agreement ended the conflict between federal and regional forces that started in… Tags:Japan Todayjapantoday.com
Tsitsipas battles past Dimitrov at inaugural United Cup,Stefanos Tsitsipas fired his 12th ace on match point to give Greece a 2-0 lead over Bulgaria with a comeback win against Grigor Dimitrov on Thursday at the inaugural United Cup. The world number four recovered smoothly after losing the opening set to emerge with a 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 (7/4)… Tags:Japan Todayjapantoday.com
Japan reports 148,784 new coronavirus cases,Japan on Friday reported 148,784 new coronavirus cases, down 43,279 from Thursday. Tokyo reported 14,525 new cases, down 3,847 from Thursday. The number of infected people hospitalized with severe symptoms in Tokyo was 48, up one from Thursday, health officials said. The nationwide figure was 574, up nine from Thursday.… Tags:Japan Todayjapantoday.com
Pele, Maradona, Messi: Who is the greatest of all time?,When FIFA declared Pele and Diego Maradona jointly the players of the 20th century, and effectively the best of all time, they side-stepped but did not resolve a heated debate that has grown more complicated as Lionel Messi has dominated the 21st century. Just who is the greatest? Pele, who… Tags:Japan Todayjapantoday.com
Philippines floods, landslides kill 44 after Christmas Day rains,The death toll from flooding and landslides caused by Christmas Day rains in the southern Philippines rose to 44, with 28 others still unaccounted for, the national disaster agency said on Friday. Damage to infrastructure and crops has been estimated at 1.36 billion pesos ($24.4 million), it said in a… Tags:Japan Todayjapantoday.com
Vivienne Westwood, Britain's provocative dame of fashion, dead at 81,As the person who dressed the Sex Pistols, Vivienne Westwood, who died on Thursday at the age of 81, was synonymous with 1970s punk rock, a rebelliousness that remained the hallmark of an unapologetically political designer who became one of British fashion's biggest names. "Vivienne Westwood died today, peacefully and… Tags:Japan Todayjapantoday.com
Turkey denounces French politicians for attending protest at killing of Kurds,Turkey on Thursday denounced French politicians for attending a Paris protest at the killing of three Kurds, in which demonstrators waved flags of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Clashes broke out last week between police and Kurdish protesters angry at the killing of three members of their community by… Tags:Japan Todayjapantoday.com
Charities say new Italian rules will limit rescues at sea,Charities that rescue migrants at sea complained Thursday that new measures adopted by Italy's right-wing government will limit their rescue capacity, setting lives at risk. The government this week approved rules requiring rescue ships to request a port immediately after each rescue, and sail immediately to it once assigned without… Tags:Japan Todayjapantoday.com
Ex-ruling party lawmaker fined ¥1 mil over political fund scandal,A former Japanese ruling party lawmaker has been fined 1 million yen for underreporting political funds, sources familiar with the case said. The Tokyo Summary Court also suspended the civil rights of Kentaro Sonoura, a 50-year-old journalist-turned-politician, for three years, meaning he cannot run for election or hold public office… Tags:Japan Todayjapantoday.com
U.S. winter storm death toll rises to 61,The death toll from a fierce winter storm that gripped much of the United States over Christmas rose to at least 61 on Thursday, officials said. Erie County executive Mark Poloncarz said two more deaths had been reported in the western New York region that bore the brunt of the… Tags:Japan Todayjapantoday.com
Yoon wishes for return to best period of S Korea-Japan relations,South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has wished for a return to the period when his nation's relations with Tokyo were "at their best," the leader of Japan's junior ruling party Komeito said Thursday. Following a meeting with Yoon in Seoul earlier in the day, Komeito leader Natsuo Yamaguchi told… Tags:Japan Todayjapantoday.com
Families moving out of Tokyo to get up to ¥1 mil per child,The government is set to offer families relocating from the Tokyo metropolitan area up to 1 million yen per child, up from 300,000 yen, as part of efforts to reduce population concentration in the Japanese capital. The increase of up to 700,000 yen per child as a fresh incentive will… Tags:Japan Todayjapantoday.com
As Israel's Netanyahu returns to office, troubles lie ahead,After five elections that have paralyzed Israeli politics for nearly four years, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has finally returned to power with the government he has long coveted: a parliamentary majority of religious and far-right lawmakers who share his hard-line views toward the Palestinians and hostility toward Israel’s legal system.… Tags:Japan Todayjapantoday.com
Tokyo train operator begins issuing body cameras, but it’s not employee conduct that worries them,There’s usually a lull in activities at most Japanese companies at this time of year. Things are winding down as most people get set to go on New Year’s vacation, and there’s a general attitude that there’s not much point in starting things that can wait until after everyone comes… Tags:Japan Todayjapantoday.com
Time of triumph for GOP turns into distraction with Santos,It should be a time of triumph for Republicans ready to take back control of the House in the new Congress next week, but their leaders are struggling with an embarrassing distraction about one of their own: What to do about George Santos? Weeks after winning a district that helped… Tags:Japan Todayjapantoday.com
Serbs dismantle barricades as Kosovo standoff eases,Serbs started dismantling barricades in northern Kosovo on Thursday, hours after Kosovo reopened its main border crossing with Serbia, easing a surge in tensions that has alarmed world powers. Serbia also ended a three-day-old state of alert for its troops, Tanjug news agency reported, as the sides showed signs of… Tags:Japan Todayjapantoday.com
Outside panel reveals prison officers abused inmates 462 times from November 2021 to August 2022,The first meeting of an advisory panel of external experts reviewing cases of repeated assault by correctional officers at Nagoya Prison has revealed that assaults occurred 462 times against three targeted inmates. The inmate abuse at Nagoya Prison involves 22 correctional officers who repeatedly assaulted the three inmates from November… Tags:Japan Todayjapantoday.com
Japan to import 2 million tons of LNG a year from Oman,Japanese trading houses Mitsui & Co, Itochu Corp and electricity firm Jera Co have agreed with Oman to purchase about 2.35 million tons of liquefied natural gas a year from the Middle East country, the Japanese industry ministry said. Against the backdrop of energy supply disruptions due to Russia's invasion… Tags:Japan Todayjapantoday.com
Movies, music and TV helped Pelé to even more stardom,Whether or not Pelé scored almost 1,300 goals in his professional soccer career, all of his biographers agree that the three-time World Cup champion wrote more than 100 songs and sold more than 100,000 copies of one of his albums. He was also in the movies, notably in the World… Tags:Japan Todayjapantoday.com
Three ways moving on from Aaron Rodgers impacts Packers
Three ways moving on from Aaron Rodgers impacts Packers,Moving on from a franchise quarterback is a challenging situation for any NFL team. Here are three ways the Packers will be impacted if Rodgers has indeed played his last game as a member of the
DOH warns vs eating seafood from oil spill areas
DOH warns vs eating seafood from oil spill areas,The Department of Health warned the public yesterday against eating fish and other seafood from areas affected by the oil spill.
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Washington turns to Wall Street to help rescue dying bank
Washington turns to Wall Street to help rescue dying bank,In a scene reminiscent of the last financial crisis, the federal government turned to Wall Street this week for help with a blossoming emergency in the banking sector
'The Adam Project' first look finds Ryan Reynolds playing ‘night-and-day' opposite of 'Free Guy' role,Director Shawn Levy and actor Ryan Reynolds are teaming up on the sci-fi film The Adam Project, a movie the two first discussed when they were both working on Free Guy, a movie where Reynolds plays the eager Blue Shirt Guy, an NPC in a video game. Tags:MoviesNetflixNewsRyan ReynoldsShawn LevySYFY Official SiteSYFY WIRE Blog Postsyfy.comSYFYWIREThe Adam Project
Is deadly poison the secret to the emergence of life on Earth and elsewhere?,Generally speaking, it’s a good idea to stay a long way away from cyanide. A couple hundred milligrams, administered orally, is fatal within hours. Ingestion, either through digestion or respiration, brings on symptoms including confusion, vomiting, and injury to the heart and lungs. Even those who survive can have lifelong debilitating disease as a result. In short, it’s super bad stuff and doesn’t play well with biology. Tags:BiologychemistryInterviewsLifeNewsScienceSYFY Official SiteSYFY WIRE Blog Postsyfy.comSYFYWIRE
These 11 terrifying horror movies from A24 will mess you up for life,2022 marks a decade since the founding of A24, the producer and distributor responsible for some of the most memorable indie horror films of the 2010s and, now, the 2020s. In the ten years since it first emerged, A24's reputation for releasing bold and often shocking films has given it a self-contained fandom all its own, and nowhere is that more evident than in the realm of horror cinema. Tags:A24false positiveFeaturesHereditaryHorrorListsMidsommarMoviesSYFY InsiderSYFY Official SiteSYFY WIRE Blog Postsyfy.comSYFYWIREThe Witch
'Resident Alien' star Alan Tudyk still can't believe he gets to play Optimus Prime,You know Alan Tudyk for his live-action roles in things like Firefly and the SYFY Original Series Resident Alien, but many genre fans will also recognize Tudyk's work as an accomplished and versatile voice actor, with credits in everything from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story to Disney's Frozen and many, many other projects in between. Tags:Alan TudykNewsParamountSYFY Official SiteSYFY WIRE Blog Postsyfy.comSYFYWIRETransformerstv
