After focusing on efforts to help South Korea’s alpine city of PyeongChang become the host of the 2018 Winter Olympics, Kim Yu-na of South Korea, an international figure skating star, said Thursday she would step up charitable activities for the rest of the year. “I would like to increase UNICEF activities in the latter part of this year,” Kim told reporters at the U.N.’s annual event to ring th...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Denmark has elected its first female prime minister, ousting the right-wing government from power after 10 years of pro-market reforms and ever-stricter controls on immigration. Near complete official results showed Thursday that a left-leaning bloc led by Social Democrat Helle Thorning-Schmidt would gain a narrow majority in the 179-seat Parliament. “We did it. Make...

Lawmaker fast narrowing opinion poll gap with liberal candidate Park Rep. Na Kyung-won of the Grand National Party is once again gaining momentum as the party’s likely candidate for next month’s race for Seoul mayor as the polls show her catching up with potential candidate Park Won-soon. According to the poll conducted by the Chosun Ilbo on Tuesday, the last day of the Chuseok holidays, Rep. N...

People trapped in elevators; banking services stop; college application delayed Rare power outages that struck across the nation Thursday halted businesses and hampered people’s daily activities. The blackouts hit right before the entrance application deadline for prospective Kookmin University students, so the school plans to extend the deadline for however long the outage persists. Many other...