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Speaking before Parliament, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said: "[W]e may have no choice but to decide to postpone the Games." The Olympics are set to start on July 24.

ERIC LOMAX was captured by the Japanese during World War II. He was used as forced labor to help build the Burma-Siam railroad. He was also tortured by the Japanese. He has reconciled with the Japanese intepreter present during his beatings. His book The Railway Man: A P.O.W.'s Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness (W.W. Norton & Company 1995,) chronicles his story from WWII and his life 50 years later. The BBC is expected to make a movie from his book "Railway Man." And Ballentine will release "Railway Man" out on paperback this month.

Funds allocated to fight Ebola have vanished into thin air. That kind of funny money business happens all too often when disaster strikes and donations roll in.

As part of his "rocket reusability" ethos, Elon Musk had hoped to use a giant net on a boat to catch the rocket's protective covering. It turns out it's hard to catch stuff falling from space.

A newly identified praying mantis species, Ilomantis ginsburgae, is named for the Supreme Court justice. The species is also — unusually — identified by traits specific to the female, not the male.

The driver, Johnthony Walker, 24, was charged on Monday with five counts of vehicular homicide. Chattanooga police say he will now be charged with a sixth, after a hospitalized child died.

It won't be as powerful as the strike against SOPA and PIPA in 2012, when Wikipedia blocked its site, Google blacked out its logo and millions of people joined in. But "The Day We Fight Back" on Tuesday is intended to show lawmakers that there's ongoing public pressure to reform mass surveillance laws.

The National Archives was due to deliver a first tranche of documents to the Democratic-led House panel on Friday.

Internet culture has infiltrated the English language. New additions to the Cambridge Dictionary this year include skibidi, delulu, tradwife and broligarchy.

The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack is expanding its probe into false electors tied to the 2020 election, issuing six subpoenas, including to two Republicans running for office.