TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — An attorney says Feng Fei-fei, the 1980s Taiwanese pop diva who had an enduring following in much of Asia, has died of lung cancer. She was 59.
Her attorney Chiang Yen-wei said Monday that Feng died on Jan. 3 in Hong Kong but relatives had kept it secret following the singer's wish not to sadden her fans ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year …
The Swedish government says it has asked the EU executive to exempt airlines from aviation fees for the period European airspace has been closed due to volcanic ash.
Sweden says it has offered airlines an extended 90-day period to pay Swedish aviation fees in an effort to support the industry in the crisis triggered by the volcano eruption in Iceland.
In a …
Catherine Bertini has watched starving children die.
She has traveled the globe, away from home for about one in everythree days for nine years now.
It has not been easy heading the World Food Program of the UnitedNations, the former Chicagoan says.
But it has been worth it. One year away from the end of her secondfive-year term as CEO of the program, Bertini continues to spread asimple message-that hunger can be alleviated with very little.
"It costs about 10 cents a day to feed one child in North Korea,"she said.
In a visit here last week, the 51-year-old Bertini spoke of thehurdles she faces-and why she thinks they can, and will, be …
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Stripping Alberto Contador of his 2010 Tour de France victory on the supposition that he may have eaten a dodgy food supplement is like jailing Al Capone for tax evasion: Yes, Contador's accusers secured a conviction, but the verdict missed the point.
Was this justice? Strictly speaking, it was. But it didn't feel that way.
In their defense, the three judges at the Court of Arbitration for Sport — whose ruling on Monday struck another body blow at cycling — faced a devilishly difficult task.
Pretty much the only indisputable fact in this most complex and contentious of cases was that the banned performance-enhancing drug clenbuterol was found …
Connecticut football fans lined up three deep to applaud and shake hands with players as they walked into Rentschler Field for the first Huskies home game since Jasper Howard was slain.
All of the players and many fans were wearing No. 6 T-shirts to honor Howard, a cornerback who was stabbed to death on Oct. 18 outside a campus dance.
Greg Shettle of Glastonbury flew …
Muhammad Ali says he will always remember Joe Frazier with admiration and respect.
Frazier died Monday night after a battle with liver cancer at age 67. He and Ali will be linked forever, both heavyweight champions and bitter rivals in the boxing ring who fought each other during three epic bouts in the 1970s.
Ali won the last two, cementing his legend as The Greatest, and was as rough on Frazier outside the ring as he was between the ropes. He called him a gorilla and mocked him as an Uncle Tom.
But after Frazier's death, Ali issued a brief statement with kind words for Smokin' Joe.
"The world has lost a great champion," he said. "My sympathy goes out to his family and loved ones."
A Chinese government policy of "demographic aggression" is threatening Tibetan culture as increasing numbers of non-Tibetan Chinese move into the region, the Dalai Lama said Saturday.
He also told reporters that China risks instability because of its human rights record.
In Lhasa, the region's ancient capital, there are now 100,000 Tibetans but twice as many outsiders, the Tibetan spiritual leader said. The majority of those are Han Chinese, the country's ethnic majority.
"There is evidence the Chinese people in Tibet are increasing month by month," he told reporters, calling the population shift a "form of cultural genocide."
He also said that a million more people are expected to be settled in Tibet after this summer's Olympics. He did not say how he received that information.
The comments from the Dalai Lama, who has been based in India since fleeing his homeland decades ago, came as diplomats were preparing to leave the Tibetan capital after a quick overnight visit. The visit was the latest move by China to show it is in control of the region after deadly anti-government protests more than two weeks ago.
Beijing blames the unrest on the Dalai Lama and his supporters.
The Dalai Lama also warned that China risks instability because of its human rights record and he worried about his "Middle Way" dialogue with Beijing, which calls for autonomy for Tibetans under Chinese rule.
"China looks stable, but underneath a lot of resentment," he told reporters, calling Beijing a police state with a "rule of terror."
The protests in Tibet and other regions with large Tibetan populations have brought immense unwanted attention to China and its human rights record ahead of the Beijing Olympics.
China wants to use the games to showcase itself as an emerging international power and an important player in the international community.
The Tibet protests, led by monks, began peacefully March 10 on the anniversary of a failed 1959 uprising against Chinese rule. Tibet had been effectively independent for decades before Chinese communist troops entered in 1950.
Tibetan exiles say almost 140 people have died in the recent protests. Beijing puts that number at 22.
