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• U.S. softball stunned as Japan snatches gold
BEIJING - The U.S. Olympic softball team was denied a fourth straight gold medal, losing 3-1 on Thursday to Japan in the sport's final appearance in the games for at least eight years. The Americans had their 22-game Olympic winning streak snapped as ...
• Surrogate mom, 61, gives birth to own grandkid
TOKYO - A 61-year-old Japanese woman gave birth to her own grandchild, using an egg donated by her daughter, a clinic said Thursday. Surrogate births are extremely rare in Japan and banned by industry groups, but they are not illegal. The Suwa ...
• Top Japanese phone innovator praises iPhone
TOKYO - One of Japan's top cell phone innovators says that for all his country's technological prowess, it could never have produced the iPhone. Japan's telecommunications industry stifles the kind of creativity that is so apparent in Apple's Web ...
• Unforgettable day for American women
Softball is gone after this year, a victim, it is said, of the American domination of the sport since it was introduced in 1996. Fans of irony will appreciate then what happened Thursday: the United States lost to Japan.
• Oil jumps to $121 amid U.S.-Russia tension
Many investors expect that high gasoline prices and slowing economic growth in the U.S., Europe and Japan will undermine global energy demand.