A young Republican congressman from Illinois will appear on the cover of Men’s Health magazine to promote healthy living. Aaron Schock, 29, named “American’s fittest congressman” by the magazine, showed off his six-pack abs for the cover of the June issue and spoke of his daily workout routine and efforts to promote health. “You have the power to change your life for the better. By making smart...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ The first laptops running on a Google-designed software system will go on sale in the U.S. and six other countries next month. The June 15 release date announced Wednesday means the lightweight laptops will hit the market nearly two years after Google Inc. began working on an operating system based on its Chrome Web browser. Since then, Apple Inc.'s iPad and other tablet co...

Osama bin Laden kept pressing followers to find new ways to hit the U.S. while he was deep in hiding and his terror organization was becoming battered and fragmented, officials say, citing his private journal and other documents recovered in last week's raid. Strike smaller cities, bin Laden suggested. Target trains as well as planes. Above all, kill as many Americans as possible in a single att...

Federal officials are defending screeners at the Kansas City airport after a photo of them frisking a baby got worldwide attention when a pastor posted it on Twitter. Transportation Security Administration spokesman Nick Kimball says the screeners were justified in doing the pat-down Saturday when the stroller set off an alert for possible traces of explosives. The Rev. Jacob Jester snapped the...

South Korean sitcom “High Kick” has seen explosive popularity among North Korean teenagers and young women, Radio Free Asia reported. According to a source from Yanggang province, the sitcom has become very popular with copied DVDs selling like hotcakes. The average high school student owns one or two copies of the popular sitcom, the source said. “High Kick” first aired in South Korea in 2006 ...

LG Chem plans to have half of its business in batteries and information materials by 2015, based on the belief the sectors will lead the firm to join the ranks of global top-tier companies. “Our business focus on batteries and information materials will be increased to become on par with our petrochemical division,” Kim Bahn-suk, vice chairman and CEO of the nation’s leading chemical company, to...

The power struggle within the ruling Grand National Party escalated as the party secretariat decided that the vacant party leader seat is to be filled by the newly-elected floor leader, instead of the designated emergency panel chairman. “It is best to let the floor leader take over the party leader’s authority and the emergency panel chairman lead the panel,” said the party’s vice secretary-gen...

Japan voiced support Wednesday for China’s proposal that South and North Korea first hold nuclear dialogue to help restart the six-party talks aimed at weaning Pyongyang off its nuclear ambitions. Shinsuke Sugiyama, Tokyo’s delegate to the stalled multilateral talks, however, said such inter-Korean talks should not pass off as a formality, stressing the North should make a series of denucleariza...