North Korea insisted Thursday it needs atomic weaponry to deter a U.S. nuclear threat, and vowed never to give up its right to launch rockets as part of what it called a peaceful space program.Washington's aim is to "eliminate the political ideology and system our people have opted for", Foreign Minister Pak Ui-Chun told a regional Asian gathering in Cambodia, according to a summary given to repor

A young girl died from complications brought on by the contagious hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) that has been spreading throughout the country, the government's health and safety agency said Thursday.The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) confirmed that a young girl, aged 2 years and 7 months and living in the Gyeongsang region of the country, died from a high fever, con

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says North Korea's pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles and ``pattern of provocations'' are a serious threat to Asian and world security.North Korea released a statement later Thursday at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' annual conference in Cambodia saying Washington's ``never-ending nuclear threat'' against the North has forced Pyon

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged countries around the South China Sea to settle their territorial disputes "without coercion" as she prepared to meet her Chinese counterpart.Clinton is to sit down with Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi at an Asian security summit in Cambodia, with the top U.S. diplomat keen to avoid souring ties amid a fraught background of rows between Beijing and its nei

Looks may not kill, but they can get you fired.That's what a Northern California yoga instructor found after leading sessions at Facebook's Menlo Park campus.The instructor, Alice Van Ness, said she got fired after she glared at a Facebook employee who texted during a class in June."The whole point for most people going to yoga is that it's disconnecting from the outside world," said Van Ness, a 3

 A Canadian man hunting for edible mushrooms in southeastern British Columbia stumbled upon an inedible whopper that weighed 57.4 pounds.Christian Therrien, 62, and son Sebastien were combing through waist-high wild grass last week near Fernie when they spotted the enormous puffball mushroom, the Fernie Free Press reported."There was lots of laughing and screaming," Therrien said. "I've found a lo

The Japanese government has ordered its diplomats in the U.S. to step up efforts to block the erection of monuments here for Korean women forced to serve as sex slaves for Japan's imperialist troops during World War II, a source said Tuesday.Japan's foreign ministry has "directed its Consul General in New York to actively protest monuments to comfort women being erected by Korean-American groups h

Rep. Park Geun-hye of the ruling Saenuri Party officially announced her bid Tuesday to become South Korea's first female president, pledging to promote a fair economy, expand welfare and improve relations with North Korea."I will devote my everything to make the Republic of Korea a country in which everybody can achieve their dreams," Park said at a press briefing in front of a popular shopping ma

More girls than boys are likely to experience math anxiety that may hurt their classroom performance in the subject, British researchers say.High math anxiety was a stronger predictor of poor test performance for girls than for boys, researchers from Cambridge and Oxford Universities said -- and could keep girls from persisting with their math education and pursuing careers that require quantitati

Billionaire Warren Buffett has handed out $1.9 billion worth of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. stock as part of his plan to gradually give away most of his $44.1 billion fortune.Buffett disclosed his gifts of 22.4 million Class B Berkshire shares on Monday. The biggest gift of about 18.4 million shares worth more than $1.5 billion went to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in accordance with the plan B

Euro area finance ministers agreed early Tuesday on the terms of a bailout for Spain's troubled banks, saying that 30 billion euros can be ready by the end of this month.The finance ministers for the 17 countries that use the euro as their official currency will return to Brussels on July 20 to finalize the agreement, having first obtained the approval of their governments or parliaments, eurozone

American adults may boost their life expectancy by two years by sitting for fewer than three hours a day, researchers said Tuesday, while admitting this was a tough task.Reducing television viewing to under two hours a day could similarly add1.4 years, the U.S. team said in a paper in the online journal BMJ Open.A recent study found that U.S. adults spend about 7.7 hours per day engaged in "sedent

Samsung Electronics Co. won an intellectual property ruling against Apple Inc. as a U.K. judge said the Galaxy tablet isn’t “cool” enough to be confused with the design for the iPad. The Galaxy tablet doesn’t infringe Apple’s registered design, Judge Colin Birss said in a ruling today in London. He said that consumers weren’t likely to get the two tablet computers mixed up. The Galaxy tablets “do

 The U.S. space agency NASA has recently pieced together a panoramic view from the camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, calling it the "next best thing to being" on the Red Planet.The full-circle scene fuses together 817 images taken by the mast-mounted panoramic camera (Pancam) on the Opportunity over a four-month period, showing new rover tracks and an old impact crater.The panor

A woman, accused of adultery, died after being fired on several times in an Afghan village, a video of the public execution showed, CBS Evening News reported.The video showed the woman died in a village in Parwan province near Kabul and that village males cheered after the woman was killed, the report said.Gov. Abdul Basir Salangi told CBS News his province, though peaceful until now, has seen the

New York City's "Naked Cowboy" has threatened a lawsuit against the up-and-coming "Naked Indian" over turf in Times Square.The Cowboy, Robert Burck, who has been playing guitar and singing in his underwear and cowboy hat in Times Square for years, now has a rival in the Indian, Adam Davis, the New York Daily News reported Saturday.Burck, who said there are no ill feelings between him and Davis, ha

Two minor presidential candidates of the ruling Saenuri Party said Monday they have decided not to compete in the party's primary for the December race, as they consider it designed to comfortably select the long-time favorite Park Geun-hye.Reps. Lee Jae-oh and Chung Mong-joon had called on the party leadership to fully open its primary voting to non-party members in what is dubbed an "open primar

Police said an Indiana man was arrested after his young daughter died while locked in the family car amid a sweltering heat wave.Joshua Stryzanski was booked by Greenfield police Saturday night on a charge of neglect of a dependant resulting in death after his 3-month-old daughter was pronounced dead at a hospital.The Indianapolis Star said another parent in Fishers was arrested after her 16-month

Choi Na-yeon kisses the championship trophy after winning the U.S. Women's Open golf tournament on Sunday, in Kohler, Wis. (AP-Yonhap News)South Korea's Choi Na-yeon won the U.S. Women's Open on Sunday, showing a champion's resolve in the face of adversity to claim her first major title.Choi, 24, fired a one-over 73 at Blackwolf Run for a seven-under total of 281 and a four-shot victory over anoth

Seven affiliates of SK, the country's No. 3 conglomerate, have been fined a combined 34.6 billion won ($30.4 million) for unfairly supporting another group affiliate, the country's corporate watchdog said Sunday.The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) said it has imposed the fine on group affiliates, including top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. and leading oil refiner SK Innovation Co., for paying higher-t