This picture taken on Thursday shows a skeleton with an iron piece before being exposed at the National History museum in Sofia. (AFP-Yonhap News)The ancient skeleton of a man, pinned down in his grave in order not to turn into a vampire, was put on show in Bulgaria last week, where vampire tales and rites still keep their bite even nowadays.The 700-year-old skeleton -- unearthed in the necropolis

대구 달서경찰서는 18일 부부싸움 끝에 결혼 3개월째인 아내의 목을 졸라 숨지게 한 혐의(살인)로 김모(31)씨를 구속했다.김씨는 지난 13일 오후 10시30분께 대구 달서구 자신의 빌라에서 아내가 여자 친구들끼리만 여행을 다녀왔다며 심한 말다툼을 하다가 홧김에 두 손으로 아내의 목을 졸라 숨지게 함 혐의를 받고 있다.김씨는 부부싸움 중에 “죽여 봐라”며 대든다는 이유로 신혼 3개월째인 아내를 살해한 뒤 달아났다가 3일만에 경찰에 붙잡혔다.Newlywed woman killed by husbandPolice in Daegu arrested a 31-year-old man on Monday on homicide charges for strangling his newlywed wife after a quarre

(MCT)Police in Daegu arrested a 31-year-old man on Monday on homicide charges for strangling his newlywed wife after a quarrel.The man identified only by his surname Kim had an argument with his wife last Wednesday after he rebuked her for going on a trip with her friends. They were married three months ago.The man reportedly told police that he became furious when she challenged him. She told him

(AP-Yonhap News)Cristiano Ronaldo's smile and swagger were back, and so was his scoring touch.The Real Madrid forward finally found the form he was lacking at the European Championship, scoring twice in a sparkling performance Sunday to give Portugal a 2-1 win over the Netherlands and a spot in the quarterfinals.Poised to be written of as one of the tournament's flops, Ronaldo put a miserable two-

Bystanders look at the Sharon Church after it was struck by a suicide bomber's attack in Kaduna on June 17, 2012. (AFP-Yonhap News)Multiple suicide attacks on churches in northern Nigeria's Kaduna state and subsequent rioting by Christian youths targeting Muslims killed at least 36 people on Sunday, officials said.Police said 16 people died after blasts at three churches, while a Red Cross officia

New Democracy party leader, Antonis Samaras (center), waves at supporters as he leaves the new office of the New Democracy conservative party election campaign kiosk near the Greek Parliament, after his party came first in the national Greek`s election, in central Athens, on Sunday. (AFP-Yonhap News)Fears of an imminent Greek exit from Europe's joint currency receded Sunday after the conservative

A Pennsylvania woman faced charges Saturday of providing her teenage daughter with heroin and other drugs beginning when she was 12 years old, prosecutors said.Brandi Baumgardner, 40, of Beaver Springs was arrested this week on charges of endangering and corrupting a minor after her daughter, now 14, told a counselor at a rehabilitation center she had been given everything from marijuana to crack

Inmates in a prison in southeast Turkey set beds and blankets alight, starting a fire that killed 13 prisoners, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other officials said Sunday.Erdogan said the fire affected a ward housing 18 inmates in the prison in the mainly-Kurdish city of Sanliurfa. He said some inmates set their bedding on fire following a fight that broke out inside the ward late on Satu

 14살 중학생 이상화는 가족에게는 눈에 넣어도 아프지 않은 아이였다. 상화는 센스 있고, 재미 있고 자상하고, 활발하고 예의 바른 소년이었다. 이군의 어머니 장효숙씨는 그가 항상 어머니의 집안일을 도와주려 했다고 한다. 학교 선생님은 그가 매우 영리하고 친근감 넘쳤으며 만나는 모든 사람들에게 먼저 인사하는 아이였다고 했다. 그렇게 사랑받았던 만큼, 4월 16일 이군의 자살은 모두에게 너무나 큰 충격이었다. 이군은 생후 2개월부터 살았던 경북 영주시 아파트에서 뛰어내려 목숨을 끊었다. 이군은 유서에 몇몇 급우들의 끊임없는 괴롭힘에 극단적 선택을 하게 되었다고 썼다. 그는 자신을 괴롭힌 급우 두 명의 이름을 적고 장례식에 참석하지 말라고 했다. 그는 유서에 “그들이 매일 괴롭혔다. 한 명은 나를 껴안으려 했고

Toronto (AP) -- A massive stage collapse hours before a Radiohead concert was to begin Saturday left one person dead and three others injured, officials said.Emergency Medical Services deputy commander David Viljakainen said a man who was trapped under the rubble was pronounced dead at the scene. Officials said he was in his mid-30s.A 45-year-old man was hospitalized with a head injury and two oth

After an apparent completion of the hurried power transition to young leader Kim Jong-un recently, North Korea is revving up its diplomacy with China and Southeast Asian nations to solidify the standing of the new leader, an analyst said Sunday. Kim, who is believed to be in his late 20s, took the helm of North Korea about six months ago, following the death of his father and longtime ruler Kim Jo

Scientists have found new evidence they say supports the theory that a knuckle bone and other human remains found under a church floor in Bulgaria may be of John the Baptist.The relics found in a small marble sarcophagus two years ago on a Bulgarian island called Sveti Ivan, which translates as Saint John, also included a human tooth, part of a skull and three animal bones.A research team from Oxf

(MCT)Researchers in Italy suggest sexually antagonistic genetic factors in mothers may promote homosexuality in men and fertility in female relatives.However, it is not clear whether and how the genetic factors are expressed to simultaneously induce homosexuality in men and increased fertility in their mothers and maternal aunts, the researchers said.Andrea Camperio Ciani of the University of Pado

This image grab from a video on CNN website shows sex trafficking victim "Soo".She came to America with dreams, and was left with only nightmares.A young South Korean woman who was tricked into sexual slavery described the past six years of her life, which had virtually been a living hell.The victim -- who asked to be identified only as Soo -- said that she came to the U.S. looking for a job and p

(AP-Yonhap News)Co-host Poland and Group A favorite Russia crashed out of the European Championship on Saturday, as the Czech Republic and Greece scored 1-0 wins to advance to the quarterfinals.The Czechs won the group as a second-half goal from Petr Jiracek beat Poland, which wasted a series of chances early in the game in rainy Wroclaw.Greece recaptured the spirit and style of its surprise Euro

Rep. Lee Seok-gi, an opposition lawmaker under pressure to resign for being involved in an election fraud and sympathetic to North Korea, has rekindled the pro-North controversy by disapproving of South Korea's national anthem, Aegukga.Lee, a member of the Unified Progressive Party (UPP), has grabbed the media spotlight after he was elected to parliament in April through the UPP's rigged proportio

(AP-Yonhap News)Daredevil Nik Wallenda became the first person to walk on a tightrope across the Niagara Falls, taking steady, measured steps Friday night for 1,800 feet across the mist-fogged brink of the roaring falls separating the U.S. and Canada.Afterward, he said he accomplished the feat through “a lot of praying, that's for sure. But, you know, it's all about the concentration, the focus, a

(MCT)A man died after suffering a fatal blow to his head during a cricket match in Cranleigh, England.David Wilcockson, 71, from Dorking, collapsed on the pitch when the batsman’s shot struck him on the head.He was transferred immediately to the King’s College hospital in London. He remained in a coma for 13 days before he died on June 1.Wilcockson, a retired salesman, had been the longest serving

Casey Anthony, acquitted last year in the death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee in Florida, says she was rightly found not guilty.In her first public remarks since her release from jail for lying to authorities about the girl's disappearance, Anthony told CNN's Piers Morgan she loved her daughter and didn't kill the child, whose skeletal remains were found in 2008 near her grandparents' home in

Residents in a town outside Boston voted Monday night to make the foul-mouthed pay fines for swearing in public.At a town meeting, residents voted 183-50 to approve a proposal from the police chief to impose a $20 fine on public profanity.Officials insist the proposal was not intended to censor casual or private conversations, but instead to crack down on loud, profanity-laden language used by tee