The government will expand both in quality and quantity its education program for aspiring creators of content related to traditional Korean culture, the culture ministry said Wednesday. The ministry has offered a month-long education course on traditional Korean culture for producers, scriptwriters and others with creative jobs in the broadcasting and movie industries, since April, so they can ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) ― Mexican archaeologists say they have found an unprecedented human burial in which the skeleton of a young woman is surrounded by piles of 1,789 human bones in Mexico City’s Templo Mayor. Researchers found the burial about five meters (15 feet) below the surface, next to the remains of what may have been a “sacred tree” at one edge of the plaza, the most sacred site of the Azte...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― Some 300 Marilyn Monroe fans gathered Sunday at the Los Angeles cemetery where she is buried, commemorating the iconic sex symbol on the 50th anniversary of her death. Culminating a week of celebrations organized by various fan clubs, the ceremony was held at her final resting place in Westwood Village Memorial Park, a small patch of greenery between a parking lot and a resid...

Cardiorespiratory fitness -- a healthy heart and lungs -- had an impact on boys' and girls' grades on reading and math tests, U.S. researchers said. Study co-author Trent A. Petrie, director of the Center for Sport Psychology at the University of North Texas, and colleagues gathered data at five Texas middle schools from 1,211 students, of whom 54 percent were female -- with an average age of ab...

A new study about the “mother’s curse” may reveal why women outlive men. The phenomenon links to an evolutionary “loophole” caused by direct passing of mitochondria DNA from mother to child. Only the mother passes her mitochondria DNA to her child, unlike in other DNA where both the mother’s and father’s strains influence the child. This direct inheritance leads to a problem that harmful mutati...

LAREDO, Texas (AP) ― U.S. customs officers in Laredo have seized two stolen Egyptian sarcophagus-type artifacts and are working on getting them back to Egypt. A Customs and Border Protection statement described the artifacts as painted with intricate faces and designs. A customs officer at the World Trade Bridge in Laredo initially examined the shipment listed as Egyptian sculptures. Homeland Se...