The amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge is underway February 16, 2011 in the Red Sea in the US 5th Fleet area of responsibility. A US warship with hundreds of Marines on board headed towards Libya on March 1, 2011, defense officials said, as US and European allies sought to pile pressure on embattled leader Moamer Khadafi. The USS Kearsarge, an amphibious assault ship accompanied by two other na

ATLANTA (AP) - Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryland, and injecting cancer cells into chronically ill people at a New York hospital.Much of this horrific history is

Central Japan Railway Company announced plans to construct the world’s fastest train, restoring its reputation as a leader in state-of-the-art high speed rail technology. Currently, the fastest train on earth operates in China. The new train with a speed of up to 498km/h is set to outpace China’s fastest, which manages 354km/h.Japanese passengers currently enjoy rapid transport with the “Shinkanse

British Malvern Primary School, where Steven Gerrard of Liverpool FC graduated, is to ban its students from playing soccer.The school recently announced that playing games with leather balls can be dangerous, and therefore will now only allow those made from sponge. The school said that such a decision was to “ensure the safety of all our pupils.”Yet, some are dubious about the school’s “safety-fi

South Korea's top conglomerate Samsung Group said Friday that it will establish a biomedical joint venture with U.S. drugmaker Quintiles Transnational Corp. as part of its efforts to find new growth engines. The joint venture will be capitalized at 300 billion won (US$265.5 million) and be established sometime in the first half of this year, Samsung said, adding work will begin on a plant in Inche

South Korea said Thursday it has ordered its anti-piracy naval unit stationed in Somali waters to sail toward Libya in case its plan to evacuate its nationals out of the troubled African country goes awry.   The dispatch of the 4,500-ton destroyer Choi Young comes as anti-government protests intensify in Libya where leader Moammar Gadhafi is reportedly mobilizing armed units to strike those who op

The Olympic Torch is lit during the Opening Ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia. (MCT)The next Winter Olympic Games’ torch relay is to be the longest one ever, if Russia’s bold plan is realized.Russia, the host of 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, is now in the beginning stages of extending the Olympic torch ceremony to the International Space Station.Vitaly Davydov, de

BERLIN (Reuters) - A married father of two was ordained as a priest by the Catholic Church in Germany on Tuesday after receiving an exemption to priestly celibacy from Pope Benedict XVI. Harm Klueting, a theologian and former Protestant pastor, will not have to adhere to the Church’s celibacy law for the duration of his marriage, the diocese of Cologne said. The case sheds light on a little-known

South Korean prosecutors said Thursday they launched a probe into Deutsche Bank's local brokerage unit in connection with last November's market plunge, following the financial watchdog's partial ban on its operation in the nation over alleged stock manipulation.The prosecution's move comes at the request of the Financial Services Commission (FSC) that Wednesday announced its plan to ban the Germa

  Foreign ownership of South Korea's land rose slightly last year, but its growth rate remained relatively slow compared with levels tallied before the financial crisis, a government report showed Thursday.   Foreigners owned a total of 223.72 million square meters of land in the country at the end of last year, up 2.4 percent from a year earlier, according to the report by the land and transport

JEJU ISLAND (Yonhap) -- Rescuers on Thursday discovered the body of a female officer as well as the wreckage of a Coast Guard helicopter that went missing with five crew members on board Wednesday night near waters off the southern resort island of Jeju, officials said.    The AW-139 helicopter took off from Jeju International Airport at 8:20 p.m. and picked up the deceased 28-year-old female offi

A Colorado boy has been arrested and charged with a misdemeanor for drawing stick figures and a threatening message while in his classroom, according to news reports. (captured from The Daily Mail)The as-yet-unnamed boy drew some stick figures saying “teachers they must die” along with himself and a gun. He had thrown away his drawing, yet his teacher found it and reported to the principal.The boy

A maritime police helicopter went missing Wednesday as it flew over waters off South Korea's southern resort island of Jeju on a medical evacuation mission, officials said.The AW-139 helicopter took off from Jeju International Airport at 8:20 p.m. and picked up a female police officer who needed emergency medical assistance from a patrol ship stationed in waters west of the island. (Yonhap News)

   AMSTERDAM (AP) _ Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is keeping hisword to destroy his chemical stockpile for producing mustard gas andhas no weapon to deliver a chemical payload, a U.N. watchdog groupsaid Wednesday.Libyan leader Gadhafi makes a speech on Wednesday. (AP-Yonhap)   Reports from Libya say fears that the regime will use chemical orbiological weapons are rampant among protesters facing Ga

Germany's BMW AG plans to unveil a mini version of its Mini car in March at the Geneva motor show. (Photo: MINI)

(captured from The Inquisitr)A town in Wales caused a stir with its unusual name. The small Welsh village of Sully, which is spelled “Sili” in Welsh, drew people’s attention, with some confusing the name with “silly,” according to the British daily, Metro.The town’s people held a vote and the majority voted the name should be changed. Locals preferred “Abersili” as the Welsh town name instead, the

Next time you go see a movie, you better watch out for the noise you make while eating snacks. Actress Natalie Portman plays Nina Sayers in a psychological thriller, Black Swan. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)A Latvian man was shot dead for eating popcorn too loudly by an irritated audience member at a cinema in the Latvian capital Riga. Two men -- one 27 years old and the other 42 years old -- were invo

 A 3,800-year-old mummy is on show during an exhibition featuring archeological findings in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region at the museum of Pennsylvania University in Philadelphia, Feb. 18, 2011. It is the third leg of the exhibition in the U.S., which will last until March 28, 2011. (Photo: Xinhua-Yonhap)

WASHINGTON (AFP) — South Korea's Kim Dong-Sung, famously disqualified from a 2002 Olympic short-track speedskating race to give Apolo Anton Ohno gold, reportedly has been accused of striking young US skaters.The Washington Post reported Saturday that six youth said they were struck or saw abusive actions by Kim, a 1998 Nagano Olympic 1,000-meter champion who retired in 2002 and began coaching spee

   About 70 South Korean construction workers in Libya had to evacuate after angry local residents broke into their work site and dorms apparently in protest of the government's housing policy, the foreign ministry said Saturday.   About 200 local residents forced their way into a South Koreanconstruction site in Derna in eastern Libya at around midnightThursday (local time) and then stormed into