The possibility of 3-parent babies grows nearer as researchers use eggs from younger women to repair damages in older women's eggs, improving their chances of fertility.

President Barack Obama's bow to the Emperor and Empress of Japan may have played well in Japan, but it has outraged conservative commentators and pundits.

Hospitals are swamped with Swine Flu patients. In one week, 1,324 Canadians were admitted for serious Swine Flu complications. The Public Health Agency of Canada said 198 children were among those admitted between Nov. 1 and Nov. 7.

U.S. President Barack Obama tours Asia, applauding China's success and promising that America will happily participate in the growth and stability of the Asian continent.

Three Japanese fishermen had to be rescued earlier this month after a hoard of giant jellyfish capsized their 10-ton trawler.

At a meeting of G20 finance ministers being held in St Andrews, Scotland, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has spoken of how a global levy on their transactions could help make banks more accountable to the taxpayers who have bailed many of them out.

On Wednesday, the last show this season of Giacomo Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" took place at the Four Seasons Center for the Performing Arts in Toronto. After the show, dozens of audience members discussed the actions of the opera's characters.

Outcast status of the traditional Japanese underclass persists in Tokyo's Sanya district. Known in Japanese as "burakumin" or "eta-hinin" this group was historically employed in the now-declining leather industry.

According to estimated figures released on Thursday by the Commerce Department, the U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 3.5 percent in the quarter from July through September.

Japanese defense officials say a navy destroyer has collided with a commercial ship off Japan's southern coast Tuesday, starting fires on both ships.