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Japan's Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara bows at a news conference in Tokyo

Japanese foreign minister quits

The foreign minister of Japan, Seiji Maehara, has resigned his office after revelations emerged that he accepted a political donation from a foreign source (which is illegal according to Japanese law).

Discovery Crew Gets A Call From Obama

Space shuttle Discovery crew members and other astronauts working at the ISS talk to President Barack Obama.
President Obama tells Discovery astronauts talks about the Discovery shuttle and gives ISS commander Scott Kelly an update on his sister-in-law, senator Gabrielle Giffords.

Exclusive: U.S. small business borrowing up: PayNet

A customer counts U.S. dollar notes
Borrowing by small U.S. businesses rose in January from the prior year, data released by PayNet Inc on Tuesday showed, but fell compared to December, underscoring the recovery's slow slog. The Thomson Reuters/PayNet Small Business Lending Index, which measures the overall volume of financing to U.S. small businesses, rose 14 percent
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Political activist Tsunehira Furuya, 28, speaks on a podium during a rally

Special Report: Can Japan's spirited youth save their aging nation?

A graduate of the prestigious University of Tokyo's economics department, Keishiro Kurabayashi could have joined a blue-chip firm and begun climbing the corporate ladder. Instead, he interned at DeNA, then a fledgling start-up and now a successful social networking and mobile gaming firm.
Valentine's Night Comet Encounter

NASA Spacecraft Spots Its 'Valentine' Comet

This year Valentine's Day is so special as NASA's Stardust spacecraft is preparing for final date with comet Tempel 1 on its second exploration. The world will be beginning to look at images when the spacecraft is on its closest approach to fly by comet Tempel 1 at about 11:37 pm EST on Monday, with confirmation likely to be received on Earth at about 11:56 pm EST.
Croatia's own "Chocolat" a tale of EU aspiration.

Croatia's own Chocolat a tale of EU aspiration

There aren't any cameras and you won't see Hollywood stars Juliet Binoche or Johnny Depp, but the confectionery is delicious and the story an informative real-life tale of Chocolat for aspiring EU member Croatia.

Japan sees surge in shoplifting by the elderly

The number of elderly Japanese people committing acts of shoplifting has surged to an all-time high, a bizarre manifestation of the country’s economic stagnation, breakdown of social standards, and a rapidly aging population.

S&P downgrades Japan debt rating

Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has downgraded the sovereign credit rating of Japan, the third-biggest economy in the world, to AA- from AA.

Obama promises to have 1 mln electric vehicles by 2015

In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama reiterated his commitment to green technologies by vowing to flood America's highways with plug-in cars and will ask Congress for new programs to support sales and development of electric vehicles.

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