Paul Hillier never gave much thought to fashion.
Air carriers are watching the situation at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant closely, making contingency plans and routing adjustments to keep operations running smoothly and protect passengers and crew from radiation risks.
Japan's Kimiko Date Krumm has failed in her bid to become the oldest-ever winner of a WTA Tour event, losing in the final of the Japan Open to Thailand's Tamarine Tanasugarn.
Japanese veteran Kimiko Date Krumm has reached the Japan Open final with a 3-6 7-6 (7-5) 7-5 victory over third seed Shahar Peer of Israel in Osaka.
Home favorite Kimiko Date Krumm made tennis history on Friday, beating world number eight Samantha Stosur at the Japan Open to become the oldest woman to beat a top-10 player on the WTA Tour.
CNN's Andrew Stevens talks to Victor Chu of First Eastern Investment about plans to help ANA launch a low-cost carrier.
The phrase "normal is an allusion" is written upside down on the front door. Colorful Harajuku Tutu skirts, a Japanese fashion staple, and salvaged denim fills the funky space inside the store called Fearless Weirdos.
CNN's Emily Change explains what efforts China has made to make the Shanghai World Expo successful.
Despite a tabloid calling her seriously sick, the diva appeared "in great shape" at a show
Japanese police said Tuesday they had arrested a suspect in the death of a young British woman who was found dead in a bath of sand two years ago.
The IAAF World Championships in track and field kick off on Saturday morning in Berlin and run through Sunday Aug. 23. Here are five things to look for at the upcoming championships:
There are a number of ways to measure the financial turbulence of the past year: the billions of dollars in public funds used to prop up banks; the cliff-drop in exports from any major economy; or the latest unemployment report.
A Jetstar flight with 203 passengers and crew aboard landed safely in Guam early Thursday after a fire broke out in the plane's cockpit, the airline said.
Japanese stocks ended six days of gains Tuesday. CNN's Eunice Yoon reports.
She is only 37 years old, but violinist Midori Goto has already spent 25 years taking center-stage with the world's best orchestras.
A Power of music
updated: Thu Nov 06 2008 22:48:00
Midori Goto's love affair with the violin goes beyond the pleasure of playing to the way in which music connects people.
A 3-month-old girl born to an Indian surrogate mother has flown to Japan to join her biological father after spending the first months of her life in legal limbo.
CNN's Sara Sidner explains the complicated history of a surrogate baby who is finally being allowed to leave for Japan.
The southern Japanese island of Kyushu is a world away from the bustling urban centers of Tokyo and Osaka and a place that still holds on tight to its traditions, Dan Hayes writes.
Here was a metaphor screaming to be expressed. Asafa Powell, sweating.
The Beijing games beckoned, far in the distance, as three sprinters aligned themselves last winter for a run at the grandest title in track and field -- Olympic 100-meter champion. They had clearly defined roles: the favorite, the record holder, the upstart.
Finance ministers from the Group of Eight industrialized nations urged oil producers Saturday to boost output
Usain Bolt could become the sprinting sensation of the Olympic Games if he keeps up his recent form.
Sweden's Carolina Kluft has decided against defending her heptathlon title at the Beijing Olympics later this year.
It's both time-honored tradition and cutting-edge technology blended in this small factory in Osaka, Japan. This is the home of Japan's best known sporting export, Mizuno.
Mizuno factsupdated: Fri Feb 15 2008 06:51:00
Mizuno was founded in 1906 when Rihachi Mizuno and his younger brother Rizo established Mizuno Brothers Ltd. in Osaka, selling western sundries, including baseballs.
World 400 meters champion Christine Ohuruogu has been cleared to compete at Beijing 2008 after winning her appeal against a lifetime Olympic ban.
Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 3. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays, click here.
Financial scandals force the closure of Japan's largest chain of English language schools, leaving many of its foreign teachers out of work -- and up in arms
In a country of diverse cultures and languages, it's hard finding the right lyrics for the national anthem
Sanya Richards continued her dominance in the women's 400 meters with a runaway victory in the world athletic finals in Stuttgart on Sunday.
Jamaican Asafa Powell set a new men's world 100m record of 9.74 seconds at the IAAF Grand Prix at Rieti, Italy, on Sunday, beating his old mark of 9.77 set in Athens in June 2005.
Twenty-six musings on the just-completed world track and field championships, one year out from the Beijing Olympic Games.
Olympic bronze medalist Naman Keita of France had "abnormal" results on an anti-doping test during the track and field world championships, anti-doping officials said Tuesday.
Allyson Felix became only the second woman to win three gold medals at a single world championships meet, helping the United States to victory in the women's 4x400-meter relay in Osaka.
Here was movement sweeter than beautiful music or fine wine, a combination of speed and style that ever so briefly transcends sport. We see it rarely in person and squeeze our eyes shut to remember it in ways that YouTube cannot convey.
Olympic champion and world record holder Liu Xiang of China won the men's 110 meters hurdles at the world championships in Osaka Friday to complete a set of medals.
American Allyson Felix defended her world 200 meters title with one of the quickest runs of all time in Osaka on Friday.
Australian Jana Rawlinson, back to her best after having a baby, regained her 400 meters hurdles world title by beating Russia's defending champion and world record holder Yuliya Pechonkina in Osaka, Japan.
Tyson Gay sprinted into the history books on Thursday as he completed the rare world 100-200 meters double in emphatic fashion in Osaka, Japan.
Earlier this week, I climbed onto a shuttle bus from the U.S. team hotel at the world track and field championships, where I had been doing an interview with an athlete. The bus idling at the curb was the most efficient way to get the meandering 60 minutes through rush hour traffic to Osaka Nagai Stadium. Sitting three rows back along the aisle was 24-year-old U.S. 1,500-meter runner Alan Webb, who would run that evening in the semifinals of his event.
Christine Ohuruogu completed a fairytale return to competition to lead home a British one-two in the women's 400 meters at the world athletics championships in Osaka on Wednesday.
Favored Americans Tyson Gay and Jeremy Wariner came through qualification rounds in impressive style at the world championships in Osaka on Tuesday.
Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba has aborted her plans of completing a second world 5,000 and 10,000 metres double in Osaka because of stomach cramps.
Here is what the young man told his coach two years ago: I took care of myself. I'm fine. And so the coach let an ugly controversy drop. He pulled back and allowed the young man to grow and Tuesday night on a running track halfway around the world from home, Kerron Clement won the gold medal in the 400-meter hurdles at the world track and field championships.
The world track and field championships begin here Saturday morning. Eight matchups I'm looking forward to seeing:
Kenya enjoyed a golden evening at the world athletics championships in Osaka on Tuesday with Janeth Jepkosgei winning a blistering women's 800 meters after Brimin Kipruto had led a Kenyan one-two-three in the men's 3,000 meters steeplechase.
Four truths from the 11th World Track and Field Championships, now three days old in steamy Osaka, Japan.
Ethiopia's Kenenisa Bekele powered to his third successive 10,000 meters world title with a pulsating victory on Monday.
A sprinter writes his legacy in contrary moments, trying to mix desperate athletic passion with the calm required to sustain perfect running technique. The body wants to thrash like a child on the playground, flailing toward the finish line. The mind must make it chill, for thrashing is slow and inefficient and leads to defeat. In fractions of a second, champions are divided from the merely swift.
Austrian steeplechaser Guenther Weidlinger was taken to hospital with facial injuries after a horror fall at the world championships in Osaka on Sunday.
Jamaica's Asafa Powell and American Tyson Gay stayed on course for an epic 100 meters showdown by cruising through Saturday's heats at the world championships.
American sprint king Tyson Gay has predicted that the world record could fall in his 100 meters showdown with Jamaican record holder Asafa Powell at the world championships in Osaka this weekend.
The IAAF has called on the World Anti-Doping Agency to impose stronger penalties for drug offences, including a four-year ban for serious first-time violations.
On a Sunday afternoon in the spring of 2001, Alan Webb ran a mile faster than any other U.S. high school runner in history. More than 11,000 spectators rose in a frenzy to cheer the epic performance at Oregon's Hayward Field, and many more embraced it from afar. Webb clocked 3:53.43 that day, nearly two seconds faster than Jim Ryun had run 36 years earlier. World-record holder and race winner Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco invited Webb to share his victory lap. David Letterman invited him to share his stage.
American sprint sensation Tyson Gay fell victim to unfavorable conditions again as he was frustrated in his bid to set a new world record over 100 meters at the London Grand Prix on Friday.
French long jumper Salim Sdiri, who was speared by a javelin in a freak accident at the Rome Golden League meeting on Friday, returned to hospital on Sunday to have checks on a haematoma, Italian news agency ANSA reported.
Two days of finals in the books. Time to run an old-fashioned two-mile around the USA Track and Field national championships. Eight laps: We'll let Tyson Gay start and Bernard Lagat finish. Beat that.
Brtain's Paula Radcliffe is unlikely to defend her marathon title at the world championships in Japan this August after developing a stress fracture to the base of her spine.
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This month on Business Traveller we're taking another look at some of the stories and issues you wanted to see again.
This month CNN Business Traveller is in Japan as Richard Quest samples the country's delicacies and customs and tries to survive on a tight budget.
World record holder Asafa Powell will not compete in the 100m at this weekend's IAAF World Cup in Athens although his name appears on the event's latest start list.
New technology may be on the verge of providing us with the ability to store and file details of our lives far beyond our natural capacity to remember, creating the possibility of personal "Black Box"-style recorders capable of chronicling entire lives.
The vodka may be cheap, but according to the latest cost-of-living survey from Mercer Consulting, Moscow now ranks as the world's most expensive city, edging out Tokyo, which held the No. 1 spot for four straight years.
A Qantas Airlines plane has made an emergency landing in Osaka, Japan, because of suspected smoke in the cargo hold, the airline said.
For six young women from Spelman College in Georgia, a competition to teach robotic dogs how to play soccer has also taught them a lot about their own abilities to break down stereotypes.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - It's hard to make New Yorkers feel good about the absurd amounts of money required to live comfortably in Gotham. But a survey out this week might at least make them feel a little better.
For football fans with a spare €25,000 ($32,500), German scientists have created the ultimate tech-toy -- a robotic foosball machine.
Japanese investigators are probing the cause of a commuter train crash that has left at least 73 people dead and hundreds more injured.
In Japan's deadliest rail accident in more than 40 years, a commuter train went off the tracks during Monday morning rush hour outside Osaka in central Japan, killing 49 people and injuring more than 200 others, many seriously, authorities said.
Olympic champion Maurice Greene overcame a poor start to win the 100 meters in 10.04 seconds at the IAAF meeting in Osaka.
Eight cities are bidding for the 2009 athletics world championships, the International Association of Athletics Federations has announced.
Venezuelan Alexander Munos beat Japanese challenger Eiji Kojima with a 10th round technical knockout to retain his World Boxing Association super flyweight title in Osaka, Japan.
Japanese pining for an economic revival have been cheered by the success of Osaka's baseball team, the Hanshin Tigers. For diehard fans, the Tigers are a perennial disappointment. But it is an endu...
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