BEIJING (AP) ― Old wounds amplified outrage over a burning territorial dispute Tuesday as thousands of Chinese protested Tokyo’s purchase of islands claimed by Beijing and marked the 81st anniversary of a Japanese invasion that China has never forgotten. China marks every Sept. 18 by blowing sirens to remember a 1931 incident that Japan used as a pretext to invade Manchuria, setting off a brutal occupation of China that ended only at the close of World War II. Demonstrations are not routine, but

TOKYO (AP) -- One is a former prime minister known for his nationalistic views. A second is a hawkish former defense chief. And a third is the son of Tokyo‘s outspoken governor whose proposal to buy and develop a cluster of uninhabited islands claimed by both China and Japan has set off a territorial furor between the two countries.A look at the top candidates to lead Japan’s main opposition party -- and potentially to become Japan‘s next prime minister -- suggests that Japan may soon get a more

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Barack Obama said Tuesday presidents must represent all of America, not just their own core voters, capitalizing on Mitt Romney’s barb that 47 percent of his countrymen were tax-dodging “victims.”Obama took the high road but aimed a shot at Romney, who was still trying to regroup after the release of secret videos showing him disparaging Obama voters as government dependents who cannot take responsibility for their own lives.“One of the things I learned as president is you rep

WASHINGTON (AP) ― Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi began her landmark visit to Washington by declaring Tuesday that she supports the easing of the remaining U.S. economic sanctions on her country.Suu Kyi also credited Myanmar’s president, the former general Thein Sein, for democratic reforms but cautioned that the country also known as Burma had a ways to go before shaking off the legacy of five decades of military rule.The Nobel laureate was speaking after meeting with Secretary of Sta

STOCKHOLM (AP) ― Two Swedish women are hoping to get pregnant after undergoing what doctors are calling the world’s first mother-to-daughter uterus transplants.Specialists at the University of Goteborg said they performed the surgery over the weekend without complications but added that they won’t consider it successful unless the women give birth to healthy children.“That’s the best proof,’’ said Michael Olausson, one of the surgeons.One of the unidentified women had her uterus removed many yea

Seven babies died after being fed an additive used to help thicken infant formula or breast milk, U.S. regulators said.The deaths were among 21 premature infants and one born full-term that developed inflamed intestines after they were given SimplyThick, the Food and Drug Administration said in a consumer update today. The product is a thickening gel designed to help premature babies swallow food

After years of decrying oppression against Myanmar's democracy leader, the United States got to celebrate her freedom Tuesday as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton welcomed Aung San Suu Kyi to the State Department at the start of her landmark tour of America.Nine months after they met at the Nobel laureate's crumbling lakeside villa in Yangon, Suu Kyi and Clinton were expected to discuss the recent political reforms in the country also known as Burma and whether Washington should ease its

CAIRO (AP) ― Libyans tried to rescue Ambassador Chris Stevens, cheering “God is great” and rushing him to a hospital after they discovered him still clinging to life inside the U.S. Consulate, according to witnesses and a new video that emerged Monday from last week’s attack in the city of Benghazi.The group of Libyans had stumbled across Stevens’ seemingly lifeless form inside a dark room and didn’t know who he was, only that he was a foreigner, the man who shot the video and two other witnesse

CHENGDU, China (AFP) ― Chinese former police chief Wang Lijun went on open trial Tuesday, a court official told AFP, in the latest stage of a huge political scandal triggered when he fled to a U.S. consulate.“The open trial has started and is in progress,” a spokesman for the Chengdu Intermediate People’s Court said. But no foreign media were allowed to enter the hearing.China’s official news agency Xinhua said that Tuesday’s session was a trial for bribe-taking and bending the law for selfish e

The 81st anniversary of a Japanese invasion brought a fresh wave of anti-Japan demonstrations in China on Tuesday, with thousands of protesters venting anger over the colonial past and a current dispute involving contested islands in the East China Sea.Outside the Japanese Embassy in Beijing, thousands shouted patriotic slogans and demanded boycotts of Japanese goods. Similar protests took place i