SYDNEY (AP) — An Australian importer recalled 23,000 Chinese-made cars after asbestos was found inside engine and exhaust gaskets, the nation’s consumer watchdog said today. Ateco Automotive, which imports the cars made by Great Wall Motor Co. and Chery Automobile, ordered dealers to stop selling the affected vehicles and recalled gaskets that were distributed as […]

TOKYO (AP) — Japan marked the 67th anniversary of its World War II surrender with a somber ceremony in the capital today, while renewed tension over territorial disputes and animosity over its wartime actions heated up across the region. Renewing Japan’s pledge to maintain its warrenouncing policy, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda mourned for the war […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Tens of thousands of Elvis Presley fans are expected to pay respects to the rock ’n’ roll icon during a candlelight vigil at Graceland marking the 35th anniversary of his death. Fans will begin lining up this afternoon at the entrance to Graceland, Presley’s longtime Memphis home. Presley died on Aug. […]

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Johnson & Johnson plans to remove potentially cancercausing and other dangerous chemicals from nearly all its adult toiletries and cosmetic products worldwide within 3 1/2 years. The health care giant, pressed to do so for more than three years by a large coalition of health and environmental groups, pledged late last […]