An Ohio teen has filed a lawsuit saying his high school principal violated his First Amendment rights by preventing him from wearing an anti-homophobia T-shirt.Maverick Couch, 16, said in the federal lawsuit filed Tuesday Waynesville High School Principal Randy Gebhardt prevented him from wearing a T-shirt that said "Jesus Is Not A Homophobe," the Dayton Daily News reported Wednesday.Gebhardt told

A North Korean defector-turned-spy was sentenced to four years in prison for attempting to kill a fellow defector in South Korea at the order of the communist regime, court officials said Thursday.The secret agent, surnamed Ahn, was charged with plotting to kill Park Sang-hak, a defector leading anti-Pyongyang propaganda activities in the South, with a poisoned needle in September.He was also orde

배우 임수정, 이선균, 류승룡 주연의 영화 <내 아내의 모든 것> (민규동 감독) 이 지난 2008년 개봉한 아르헨티나 영화의 리메이크인 것으로 뒤늦게 밝혀졌다.제작사인 “영화사 집”은 작년 말 촬영이 시작된 이 작품이 리메이크이라는 사실을 밝히지 않은 채 영화를 홍보해왔다. 영화사 집은 4일 본지와의 통화에서 원작이 아르헨티나의  (아내의 애인)임을 확인하고 의도적으로 사실을 감춘 것은 아니라고 해명했다.제작사 관계자는 “원작이 흥행에 성공한 할리우드 영화도 아니지 않느냐”며, “리메이크작이라는 사실을 굳이 알리는 것이 영화 홍보에 도움이 될 것이라고 생각하지 않았다”고 말했다.<내 아내의 모든 것>은 못 말리는 아내 (임수정)와 헤어지고 싶은 소심한 남편 (이선균)의 이혼 시도를 그린 영화로, 결별을 위해 다른 남자에게 아내를 유혹해 달라고 부탁한다는 설정이 <아내의 애인>과 동일하다.이에 대해 영진위 관계자는 “계약서에 특정 문제에

A female suicide bomber blew herself up Wednesday during an address by Somalia's prime minister in Mogadishu, killing four people including the country's Olympic and football bosses.The young woman detonated her suicide belt as Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali was addressing 200 people at the newly reopened national theatre on the first anniversary of the launch of Somalia's satellite TV networ

The United States cautioned the world Wednesday against any action that may send the wrong signal to North Korea as it seeks to justify its planned rocket launch."We call on the international community to abstain from taking any actions, such as sending observers, that might be seen as endorsing a launch that would be in blatant defiance of the DPRK’s international obligations and commitments,” a

The ruling Saenuri Party on Wednesday chastised an opposition candidate running in next week's parliamentary elections for a series of vile sexual remarks aimed at former U.S. President George W. Bush, among others.Kim Yong-min, a candidate of the Democratic United Party (DUP), has drawn fire for his foul remarks on Internet radio and prompted the Saenuri Party earlier in the day to issue a statem

A typhoon-strength storm brought travel chaos to Japan on Tuesday, as violent winds and rain killed at least two people and left tens of thousands of people stranded.Gusts of up to 150 kilometres (93 miles) per hour have been recorded in western Japan, with coastal areas likely seeing even stronger winds, Japan's weather agency said.At least 163 people suffered injuries across the country, knocked

A fresh wave of Beatlemania could sweep the world after Paul McCartney's son said four of the legendary British rock group's children were considering setting up a band together.James McCartney told the BBC website that he and John Lennon's son Sean, George Harrison's son Dhani, and Ringo Starr's son Zak Starkey had mooted the idea of forming "The Beatles -- The Next Generation"."I'd be up for it,

China's Premier Wen Jiabao has called for the break-up of a banking "monopoly" on lending that has prevented businesses from borrowing the money they need to expand, state media reported.Wen said the government needed to "break this monopoly" to ease the flow of private capital in the world's second-largest economy, in comments published on the China National Radio website early Wednesday."In rega

A judge ordered a Swedish mother to pay a fine after she was convicted of encouraging her 3-year-old son to drink beer and giving him cigarettes.The district court in Malmo convicted the woman Monday of harassment, narcotic crimes and unlawful procurement of alcohol, and ordered her to pay a $756 fine, The Local reported. The fine was reduced because she spent 20 days in jail after the incident wa

Five North Korean defectors have arrived in South Korea after spending three years in a South Korean consulate in China, a South Korean official said Wednesday.China has allowed them to travel to South Korea via a third country, the official said, a step Beijing usually takes to handle those involved in high-profile cases.The five people, who include three family members of a late South Korean sol

Mitt Romney won Tuesday's Republican presidential primary in Maryland, US media projected, as he hoped for a clean sweep in three contests aiming to consolidate his frontrunner status.CNN, MSNBC and Fox television channels all called the vote for Romney just as the Maryland polls closed. Results from the US capital Washington and Wisconsin were not yet known as Romney bids for his party's nod to t

A Seoul court on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for two former presidential secretaries on charges of instructing the destruction of evidence in an illegal surveillance of a businessman critical of President Lee Myung-bak years ago, court officials said.Lee Young-ho, 48, a former presidential secretary for employment and labor affairs, is accused of ordering an ethics division official of the Prim

Once his father's heir apparent, James Murdoch stepped down Tuesday as chairman of British Sky Broadcasting, surrendering one of the biggest jobs in the Murdoch media empire in a bid to distance the broadcaster from a deepening phone hacking scandal.James Murdoch's credibility and competence have come under severe questioning because of the phone hacking crisis and alleged bribery by British newsp

An ad image of KARA and their new fragrance (3CY)Popular girl group KARA announced on Tuesday they will launch their first signature fragrance, becoming the first Asian celebrity to introduce a cosmetic product named after them and created with their input.“We have been working for a long time on developing K5J and are so excited that our signature fragrance is now a reality,” said KARA members i

After being plagued by more than two months of labor union strikes, MBC has taken additional disciplinary measures against strike leaders, its union said Tuesday, escalating labor-management conflict at the public broadcaster.The union said MBC management fired labor union head Jung Young-ha and his deputy Kang Ki-woong and suspended five others for two to three months for masterminding an "illega

The U.S. Army has tested a reconnaissance robot that can jump 30 feet into the air, high enough to vault into a second story window, its maker says.(YouTube)Developed by Massachusetts firm Boston Dynamics, with U.S. Army funding, the tiny robot -- looking something like a radio-controlled model car minus its body -- can stop, stand up and launch itself with a CO2-powered piston, The Christian Scie

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un did not adapt well to an international school in Switzerland in the 1990s and his grades were poor, a news report has said.Kim was absent for 75 days and 105 days in his first and second year at the International School of Bern, respectively, Swiss newspaper Le Matin Dimanche reported Sunday, citing unidentified sources.Kim sometimes came to the school only in the a

He's already a titan of social media, so it only makes sense that Ashton Kutcher would play the late Apple founder Steve Jobs in an upcoming biography.Kutcher's publicist confirmed Tuesday that the independent film ``Jobs'' will begin production in May while he's on hiatus from the CBS sitcom ``Two and a Half Men.'' Variety first reported the casting news.The 34-year-old actor, who has over 10 mil

A menu for the last luncheon served to first class passengers on the doomed Titanic sold for 76,000 pound ($122,000, 91,000 euros) at a British auction on Sunday.The menu, dated April 14, 1912 -- the night the biggest, most ambitious ship of the age hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank, killing 1,514 people -- was the star lot in an auction of Titanic memorabilia.A Britain-based collector