At least 52 people were injured in a 47-car pileup on Interstate 75 south of Tampa Bay, law enforcement officials said.The Florida Highway Patrol said at least seven separate crashes were part of the Friday afternoon pileup, which blocked the southbound lanes of the highway for 6 hours, the Bradenton (Fla.) Herald reported.At least two people were transported to hospitals by helicopter, but their

 A new font designed for people with dyslexia is now available for use on mobile devices such as tablet computers and smartphones, its U.S. designer says.The font, called OpenDyslexic, was designed by Abelardo Gonzalez, a mobile app designer from New Hampshire who has released the free font to word processors and e-book readers, Medical Xpress reported Monday.Dyslexia is a learning disorder charac

South Korean rapper-singer Psy has topped a Chinese online music chart, as the popularity of his global hit "Gangnam Style" spills over into the world's most populous country, a Web site showed Monday."Gangnam Style" ranked No. 1 on the music search service of China's largest search engine, Baidu. The song has caught on with fans in China after Psy's popularity spread from the United States, where

The White House sought Sunday to limit the impact of a new missile deal with South Korea to its global nonproliferation efforts and regional security conditions in which China plays a growing role."The ROK's new missile guidelines are designed to improve the Republic of Korea's ability to defend against DPRK ballistic missiles," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters."The revisions

South Korea plans to complete the deployment of new ballistic missiles with ranges of 550 and 800 kilometers in five years, a government source here said Monday, a follow-up measure for a revised missile agreement with the United States aimed at deterring threats from North Korea. (Yonhap News)

North Korea saw its trading volume with China surge at a far higher rate than those with other trading partners last year, a parliamentary report showed Monday, indicating the communist country's rising dependency on China.Trading volume between the North and China reached US$3.54 billion in the first seven months of this year, growing 14.5 percent from the corresponding figure for the same period

Japan's central bank has ended its latest policy meeting Friday with no change in the country's key interest rate, resisting government pressure for further easing. The Bank of Japan said in a statement Friday that it expected the world's third-largest economy to “level off” for now, with inflation at about 0 percent. In a rare move, the government's national policy minister, Seiji Maehara, told r

Greenland(AFP)The world's most northerly lake, entombed under a layer of ice 2,400 years ago, is thawing and showing a return of organic life, European researchers say.The finding at Kaffeklubben So lake on the coastal plain of northern Greenland is the latest evidence that climate change in polar regions can result in rapid ecological changes, they said."It's kind of the end of the earth," Bianca

A young woman with terminal cancer has asked a New York judge to allow her to be removed from life support, a move her parents oppose. Grace Sung Eun Lee's parents testified Wednesday they still hope God will save their daughter's life, the New York Daily News reported. Her father, the Rev. Manho Lee, is the minister of Antioch Missionary Church in the borough of Queens, and the parents also said

(Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences)An 11-year-old boy in Russia has discovered the almost-complete 30,000-year-old carcass of a woolly mammoth, Russian media reported.Yevgeny Salinder found the 1,100-pound mammoth in the tundra of the Taymyr peninsula in northern Russia, Moscow News said.Scientists using axes and steam hoses worked for a week to dig it out of the permafrost i

South Korean stocks opened higher on Friday, fueled by firm gains in technology shares, analysts said.The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) climbed 7.39 points, or 0.37 percent, to 2000.07 in the first 15 minutes of trading.Big-cap tech firms drove up shares, with market bellwether Samsung Electronics rising 0.51 percent and SK hynix gaining 1.08 percent.Samsung Electronics, the

Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest technology company by revenue, estimated Friday that it posted a record operating profit of 8.1 trillion won (US$7.3 billion) in the third quarter of the year.The preliminary estimate for the July-September period marked a 90.6 percent surge from 4.3 trillion won a year earlier and a 20.5 percent gain from the previous quarter, the company said in a reg

This undated publicity photo provided by United Artists and Danjaq, LLC shows Ursula Andress in a scene from the James Bond film, "Dr. No." Her image personifies the gorgeous, mysterious cool of the Bond girl. The film is included in the MGM and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Blu-Ray "Bond 50" anniversary set. (AP-Yonhap News)This undated publicity photo provided by United Artists and Danjaq,

The ruling and opposition parties clashed Thursday over a presidential office request to renegotiate the appointment of two special counsel candidates tasked with re-investigating allegations of state funds being misused to buy land for President Lee Myung-bak's retirement home.The presidential office Cheong Wa Dae urged political parties to follow the letter of a pact on the appointment of candid

U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney clashed over taxes, deficits and how to revive the U.S. economy as they shared the stage for the first time Wednesday in a high-stakes debate with the power to reshape the race for the White House.Obama said Romney wanted to return to the policies that hurt the U.S. economy. Romney said Obama's policies had failed and America needs

Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi walks in during the red carpet event for the 2nd Beijing International Film Festival on Tuesday. (AFP)Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi is suing a US-based Chinese online news outlet over claims that she was a prostitute who had sex with top official Bo Xilai and others, a lawyer said Wednesday.The "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" star is taking legal action for libel in Los An

 A woman who survived a deadly shooting in Texas told jurors her former boyfriend was the trigger man.Candice Moten, who survived an attack that killed her mother, sister and caused her to lose her unborn baby, told a jury James David Morrison opened fire after the women accused him of slashing the tires on their car. Lying wounded, Moten‘s mother Laura said, “I’m not dead yet,” at which point Mor

A Hong Kong crime thriller about a battle between police and gangsters will open the international film festival in the South Korean port city of Busan Thursday under the festival's new plan to focus on Asian diversity.Founded in 1996, the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) has grown into one of Asia's largest film festivals.It was an unspoken rule that BIFF usually kick-starts its 10-day ev

Turkey shelled Syria in retaliation for cross-border fire that killed five of its nationals, in a sharp escalation of tensions between the neighbors.Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's cabinet, furious about the attack, was set to seek clearance for possible future cross-border military operations at a special parliament session Thursday morning.Turkish shelling meanwhile continued after nightfa

The United States on Wednesday remained guarded publicly about talks on South Korea's ballistic missile capability, apparently reflecting the sensitivity of an issue associated with nonproliferation efforts.A series of press reports in Seoul said the allies have reached a deal to allow South Korea to develop ballistic missiles with the range of up to 800 kilometers, enough to cover all of North Ko