JAPAN

Sarah Outen, a British adventurer on a round-the-world bicycle, kayak and rowing race, has been rescued after being stranded in the Pacific Ocean. Outen was rescued by the Japanese Coast Guard in rough seas on the afternoon of Friday, June 8.

Japan's economy grew more than the initial estimate in the first three months of the year from the preceding quarter, indicating that the country is slowly regaining the growth momentum.

Japan's Nikkei 225 Stock Average fell Friday as lack of indications of more monetary stimulus in the U.S. by the Federal Reserve undermined the interest rate cut by China.

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Now that Shawn Johnson is out of the way, it's Gabrielle Douglas's time to shine. The elite gymnast and two-time member of the U.S. National Gymnastics team is getting the attention of pretty much everybody, with her high-flying moves that she embraces with her uneven bars routine.

The naval standoff between China and the Philippines is winding down, but the tensions between the two countries aren't -- and Beijing, despite being vastly more powerful, hasn't come away with the upper hand

Sales of electronic chips rose 3.4 percent to $24.1 billion in April, the biggest monthly boost in two years, the Semiconductor Industry Association reported. The trade group repeated an earlier forecast for yearly chip sales to reach $301 billion, a slight boost over 2011.

The emergence of drug-resistant or superbug strains of gonorrhoea is caused by unregulated access to and overuse of antibiotics, which helps fuel natural genetic mutations within the bacteria.

Japan's Nikkei 225 Stock Average rose Wednesday amid positive US economic data and the G7 meeting's promise of a closer collaboration to tackle economic problems.

Asian shares nudged up Wednesday but were capped by concerns that Europe's financial strains could intensify without a global response, as Spain warned that it was being shut out of credit markets.

Manchester United has announced their first signing of the summer and more could soon be on the way.

Massive movements of capital during the latest occurrences of the European financial crisis have forced central bankers into the role of circus contortionists: bending into positions in order to maintain their stated policy targets. And their antics are not being bought by all, with some wagering that these bankers' next attempts will result in a broken back or two.

South Korea is burdened with the highest suicide rate among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Spain said on Tuesday that credit markets were closing to the euro zone's fourth biggest economy as finance chiefs of the Group of Seven major economies were to hold emergency talks on the currency bloc's worsening debt crisis.

Asian markets rose Tuesday amid hopes that policy makers in Europe would take measures to stem the debt crisis and regain the economic growth momentum.

Stock markets in Japan advanced for the first time in five days Tuesday, bouncing up on bargain hunting after recent sharp sell-offs.

Several bottles of champagne salvaged from a Baltic Shipwreck, will go up for auction in France this week and could sell for thousands of dollars.

An increasing number of people are trying more ways to sneak money out of countries that are buckling under the weight of the world's almost daily financial crises.

Finance chiefs of the Group of Seven leading industrialized powers will hold emergency talks on the euro zone debt crisis on Tuesday in a sign of heightened global alarm about strains in the 17-nation European currency area.

A unique pair of diet glasses have been invented in Japan to try and help weak-willed dieters, who lack self-control.

China is boldly heading where few have gone before, but in the opposite direction from where most would imagine.