Georgia is experiencing a boom of plastic surgery. Women rushed to fix their noses, breasts and remove excess fat. Rhinoplasty is popular among men as well. European integration is strongly felt here: everyone wants to keep up with Western models of beauty. Yet, there are well-founded historical reasons why plastic surgery in Georgia is booming. After the collapse of the Soviet Union private plastic... 

Protesters chant slogans during an anti-China protest rally in central Tokyo. About 4,000 anti-China protesters rallied in Tokyo on Saturday, with their anger fuelled by a video capturing a collision between Chinese and Japanese vessels which sparked a diplomatic spat. About 4,000 anti-China protesters rallied in Tokyo on Saturday, with their anger fuelled by a video capturing a collision between Chinese... 

Panasonic Corporation and Tesla Motors today announced that Panasonic has invested $30 million in Tesla. The investment was made through the purchase of Tesla common stock in a private placement at a price of $21.15 per share. The investment builds upon a multi-year collaboration of the two companies to accelerate the market expansion of the electric vehicle. Panasonic is the world’s leading... 

A Philippine village watchman mistook an actor for a real masked gunman, jumped onto his moving motorcycle and fatally shot him in what witnesses thought was part of the filming, police and another actor said Monday. As the director shouted ‘Action!’, actor Kirk Abella began to speed away on a motorcycle with a masked driver and the watchman feared he was going to escape, said community... 

You may remember an LA Times article from last year, titled Beijing Loves IKEA — But Not for Shopping. In summary, the article revealed why there’s a line to get in the front door of the Beijing IKEA, but not one to check out. The picture above tells part of the story — just as many locals visit IKEA to sleep — on chairs, sofas, and occasionally beds — as come for the $2 plates of lox and... 

This undated handout illustration shows the DNA double helix. A Japanese has joined the elite club of humans whose genetic code has been fully sequenced, according to research unveiled on Sunday. A Japanese has joined the elite club of humans whose genetic code has been fully sequenced, according to research unveiled on Sunday. The unnamed male gave a sample of DNA which has been unravelled to show... 

Indoneisa has admitted it's soldiers tortured a Papuan man Indonesia has admitted that its soldiers had tortured Papuan men seen in an online video being beaten and humiliated, and promised a thorough investigation. The soldiers applied a burning stick to the genitals of one of the unarmed detainees and threatened another with a knife as they interrogated them over the location of a weapons cache,... 

Shi Tao, a freelance journalist, is serving a jail sentence for leaking a document banning coverage of the Tiananmen Square protests anniversary. Human rights groups and WikiLeaks itself warn that Government Leaks project is naive given China’s strict secrecy laws. Attempts to create a “Chinese WikiLeaks” project could result in lengthy jail sentences for internet users who send sensitive... 

A rare earth mine in China, which this week announced that it would cut its annual export quota for rare earths in 2011. China, which has been blocking shipments of crucial minerals to Japan for the last month, has now quietly halted some shipments of those materials to the United States and Europe, three industry officials said this week. The Chinese action, involving rare earth minerals that are... 

Man rescued after getting arm trapped down looUploaded by itnnews. – Up-to-the minute news videos. A man in Xixing City, China found himself engaged in a embarrassing moment after he dropped his mobile phone down a toilet. Rescue workers found the hapless gentleman hunched over the toilet with his arm trapped down the loo pipe. They had to break the bowl to free his arm, which was completely... 

Canon has unveiled its Cross Media Station, an inductive charging station, which allows users to download images and simultaneously charge digital cameras and camcorders by placing them on top of the device. The tabletop box also allows users to share photos and videos to other users, and features facial recognition which scans both video and picture files to recognise the same person in the footage... 

North Korean president Kim Jong-il The threat posed by North Korea’s nuclear programme has reached an “extremely dangerous level”, an adviser to South Korea’s president has said. It was not clear whether the comments by Kim Tae-hyo, President Lee Myung-bak’s deputy national security adviser, followed new intelligence. A recent report by the Washington-based Institute for... 

Fly in the sky: The Global Hawk, an unmanned spy plane, is unveiled at Edwards Air Force Base in California in January 2009. Spy planes sought amid regional rise in tensions. The Defense Ministry is looking to buy three Global Hawk reconnaissance aircraft from the United States to deal with China’s militarization and North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs, Self-Defense Force... 

This is a satellite image of construction at the Yongbyon Nuclear Site, North Korea-September 29, 2010. North Korea continues to keep the experts guessing. Last week, it promoted the third son of its current leader, Kim Jong Il, prompting speculation that he is on track to succeed his father. And now, apparently, it has commissioned construction activity at the site where it used to produce plutonium... 

Protesters chanted: "We will not allow Communist China to invade our territory." Anti-China protesters gathered Saturday in Tokyo and six other major cities in Japan to rally against what it calls an invasion of disputed islands that both claim are part of their territories. Protesters held up Japanese flags and chanted, “We will not allow Communist China to invade our territory.” Beijing...