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TOKYO - Japan's prime minister touched off a diplomatic firestorm in Asia on Monday by visiting a shrine to World War II dead that Japan's neighbors say symbolizes the nation's brutal, militaristic past.

South Korea and China acted swiftly after Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit. South Korea scrapped talks for a summit in December, ending a string of annual "shuttle" summits be...

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Last Wednesday evening, Portlanders gathered at the Multnomah Arts Center in southwest Portland to hear nearly all of the candidates running for Mayor and City Council. Candidates made campaign literature available, and were given the opportunity to make their pitches.

As i...

When you've set aside the weight of elected leadership, let go many of the ties to official Washington, shrugged off duty to political partisanship and can earn more money in a week on the speaking circuit than you made in a year as leader of the free world, life gets just a little easier.

And it was easy last night in London for William Jefferson Clinton. Easy as summertime in the South...

If anyone's ever told you they "feel your pain," they're lying.

No one can ever feel your pain. There is so much that comprises a pain experience, it is yours and yours alone.

It's why one person can withstand high levels of pain, while another cries out for mercy.

It's why one person can recover from minor injuries while others become stricken with chronic pain.

"Th...

Today is Monday, Oct. 24, the 297th day of 2005 with 68 to follow.

The moon is waning. The morning stars are Jupiter, Saturn and Mars. The evening stars are Mercury, Pluto, Venus, Uranus and Neptune.

Those born on this date are under the sign of Scorpio. They include pioneering Dutch microscope maker Anton Van Leeuwenhoek in 1632; journalist Sarah Josepha Hale, author of "Mary Had a...

There's something about fall that says "books." Maybe it's because publishers save some of their most interesting and appealing titles for fall. This year, they're giving us books from such big-name writers as Amy Tan, Salman Rushdie, E.L. Doctorow, Tracy Kidder, Frank McCourt, Jane Smiley and Joan Didion - among many others. So if the prospect of shorter days and chilly weather makes stayin...

If offered tickets to either The Nutcracker or the sexy, action-packed blockbuster Mr. & Mrs. Smith, it's safe to say most young people would choose the latter.

Plies and pirouettes or seduction and shootouts? It's practically a no-brainer.

The ballet has long been saddled with a reputation of being old-world fare for society's upper crust.

But things are changing, says Alb...

Berlin - Germans spend on average six weeks of their lives having sex, compared with two weeks on religious activities. According to the magazine Geo Wissen, the average German spends 16 hours of his or her life enjoying an orgasm - far less than the six months spent in traffic jams or nine months washing and ironing.

An average of 24 years and four months was spent sleeping.

Blanty...

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