Korean stocks ended 0.6 percent higher Friday, as good debt sales in Italy and Spain whetted investor sentiment with more hope for a resolution to the eurozone crisis, analysts said. The local currency gathered ground against the U.S. dollar. The benchmark KOSPI gained 11.11 points to 1,875.68. Trading volume was moderate at 468.1 million shares worth 5.87 trillion won ($5.1 billion) with gainer...

GM Korea CEO resigns suddenly; Buttermore assumes interim chief General Motors is considering moving car production from South Korea to Europe, the British Telegraph newspaper said Friday. The plan, yet to be confirmed, is intended to revive the troubled Opel and Vauxhall arms, the Telegraph said, adding that some Chevrolet production lines might be transferred back to Europe to bolster its pro...

The national election watchdog decided on Friday to allow candidates to use Twitter and other social networking sites for their election campaigns all year round. Under the current South Korean law, candidates are banned from distributing promotional publications and other materials for 180 days prior to voting. The national election watchdog has classified Twitter postings related to elections ...

South Korea's central bank on Friday left the key interest rate unchanged for the seventh straight month due to still-high consumer inflation even as the eurozone debt crisis is feared to dent economic growth. Bank of Korea (BOK) Gov. Kim Choong-soo and his fellow policymakers held the benchmark 7-day repo rate at 3.25 percent for January. The rate freeze is in line with market forecasts. All 1...

LONDON (AP) — A new study of fertility treatment found that women who get three or more embryos have no better odds of having a baby than those who get just two embryos. They also have a greater chance of risky multiple births. "Women who have gone through infertility treatment want the best chance of having a baby, but we need to explain that the data shows transferring more embryos doesn't ac...

NEW DELHI, Jan 12, 2012 (AFP) - India on Thursday said it was trying to track down those responsible for a video of naked tribal women dancing for tourists in the Andaman islands, where filming of aborigines is banned. British newspaper The Observer at the weekend released the undated video showing Jarawa tribal women being lured with food to dance and sing for visitors to the Andamans, which ar...

North Korea test-fired three short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea earlier this week, apparently as part of efforts to improve its missile technology, a Japanese newspaper said Friday. North Korea launched what appeared to be KN-02 ground-to-ground missiles on Wednesday morning, according to multiple Japanese government sources quoted by the Sankei Shimbun. The communist country also...

MOSCOW (AP) _ A Russian spacecraft designed to burnish the nation's faded space glory in a mission to one of Mars' moons has turned into one of the heaviest, most toxic pieces of space junk ever. It will come crashing down to Earth in just a few days. The Russian space agency Roscosmos' latest forecast has the unmanned Phobos-Ground probe falling out of Earth's orbit Sunday or Monday, with the ...

The nation's cable TV system operators (SOs) took bold action on Thursday to prompt terrestrial TV networks to charge lower fees for using their programs, threatening to stop relaying both standard and high-definition programs of the terrestrial channels early next week. The SOs and three major terrestrial TV companies -- KBS, MBC and SBS -- have failed to narrow differences in negotiations over...

TEHRAN (AFP) -- The assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist sparked deep fury in Tehran on Thursday against prime suspect Israel and against the United States, which said it had nothing to do with the murder. Some hardline newspapers even called for retaliatory action, with one, Keyhan, saying in an editorial that "assassinations of Israeli officials and military are achievable." The Iran...