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Sony’s new online service connecting the whole range of its gadgets to downloadable content like movies and games should help build brand loyalty, a top executive says.   Executive Vice President Kazuo Hirai said the service, set for launch next...

Relegated Oita Trinita rewrote the script with a stunning 1-0 win over high-flying Kawasaki Frontale in the J. League on Sunday. Brazilian striker Fernandinho scored the decider in the 62nd minute to give Oita a fully deserved victory and a...

Cameron has revived SNP hopes of wielding more power at Westminster by admitting that a hung parliament would be better for the UK than another five years of a Labour government. The Conservative leader insisted yesterday he hoped to win...

Up-and-coming Italian Edoardo Molinari birdied the second playoff hole to defeat 2008 European Tour money leader Robert Karlsson at the Dunlop Phoenix Tournament on Sunday. Molinari blasted out to three feet from a greenside bunker to set up the winning...

A former vice foreign minister recently said he has seen documents from 1960 that confirm a secret Japan-U.S. pact under which Tokyo allows U.S. military ships and aircraft carrying nuclear weapons to transit Japan. "I saw them. I have memories...

Leading Japanese shipping companies are in a race to develop ecological ships to help reduce carbon-dioxide emissions from maritime traffic, which accounts for more than 90 percent of international transport.     Nippon Yusen KK is displaying at its museum...

Fans of Formula One racing gathered Sunday at Fuji Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture to bid farewell to the cars of Toyota Motor Corp., which will withdraw from the high-speed sport at the end of the 2009 season. Fans applauded and...