A British man who bought a handful of sketches at a Las Vegas rummage sale for $4.76 said one of them turned out to be an Andy Warhol worth $2.06 million. Andy Warhol`s "Marylin" -- This photo is not directly related to the story. (AFP-Yonhap News)Andy Fields of Tiverton, England, said he bought a few pieces of art from the sale in 2010 and later learned one of the pieces was an original sketch be

A Pakistani youth was starved to death in Greece after being held to ransom by kidnappers for more than two months, the semi-state Athens News Agency reported on Thursday, citing police sources. (MCT)The 17-year-old had been found dead by relatives in January on a street bench in west Athens following a tip-off from the kidnappers who had helped bring him to Greece in the first place.Police said t

Radioactive cooling fluid leaked at a French nuclear reactor Thursday following two small fires, but the spillage was safely collected in special tanks, officials said.A reactor at the power plant in Penly on the English Channel near the port of Dieppe shut down automatically after two small fires broke out Thursday, the plant's operator EDF said.Firefighters easily extinguished the blazes but a c

Japan's cabinet plans to approve an annual foreign policy report Friday that renews Tokyo's territorial claim to Seoul's easternmost islets of Dokdo, a diplomatic source said Thursday. In a move certain to deepen diplomatic tension with South Korea, the Diplomatic Blue Book 2012 will reiterate claims that Dokdo is Japanese territory historically and under international law, the source said on cond

A South Korean woman has been detained for killing her baby who was born while she was playing online games, police said Thursday.They said the 26-year-old gave birth while at an Internet cafe in Seoul on March 25. She allegedly put the infant in a plastic bag, sealed it and dumped it in a nearby parking lot.The woman had visited Internet cafes almost daily, police said."She was playing games unti

With NHL playoffs days away, Canadian hockey fans are being encouraged to get hairy and grow beards to raise funds for heart and stroke research. (www.beardathon.ca)For the second year, the National Hockey League Players' Association is teaming with the Heart and Stroke Foundation to raise funds by participating in the players' longstanding tradition of growing beards during the playoffs.In a rele

The FBI said an attempted bank robber in Chicago was foiled by a teller who told her the bank was closed and she should come back the following day. (MCT)The criminal complaint filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court said Olga Perdomo walked into the Albany Bank and Trust on West Lawrence Avenue around 5 p.m. on March 29 and handed a teller a note demanding "all of your money, no cops, no dye pack,"

South Korea’s inflation seems to be stabilizing and the nation can achieve this year’s inflation target, Finance Minister Bahk Jae-wan said at a forum in Seoul on Wednesday. The ministry in December projected a 3.2 percent consumer price gain for 2012. He also said the South Korean economy is facing downside risks because of high oil prices. The global economy is showing signs of improvement and S

Struggling US Internet pioneer Yahoo! said Wednesday it would slash some 2,000 jobs in a purge aimed at transforming into a "smaller, nimbler, more profitable" company.Yahoo! chief executive Scott Thompson, who took the helm in January promising to turn the company around after a year of falling income, said the job cuts were a "tough decision" to achieve that goal."We are intensifying our efforts

Extraterrestrial life in the solar system may be hiding beneath the icy crust of Jupiter's moon Europa, safe from blasts of radiation, U.S. researchers say.Graphic image of Jupiter (MCT)The frozen moon is subject to constant and significant blasts of radiation from Jupiter's magnetic field that could annihilate life at shallow depths, so scientists are conducting an experiment to determine how dee

Imagine going to a local store, picking out a design for a robot to help with some household chores, and having the device built within a matter of hours.That is the vision of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where a five-year, $10 million project to bring the power of robots to the average person is just getting started."This research envisions a whole new way of thinking

An outpost billed as America's smallest town is up for sale this week, complete with its own schoolhouse and gas station, with bidding starting at an enticing $100,000. (MCT)For a sum which would barely buy a one-room apartment in most places -- and a lot less in big cities -- the purchaser of Buford, Wyoming would get over 10 acres of land including a three-bedroom home, a garage, and a cellphone

A missing English bookmaker's wife was convicted Tuesday of killing him more than a decade ago with help from the couple's daughter.Shirley Banfield, 64, and Lynette Banfield, 40, were both sentenced to life in prison, The Guardian reported. Shirley Banfield must serve at least 18 years and her daughter 16.Don Banfield, 64, vanished in 2001. He had just signed a contract for the sale of his house

Prosecutors on Wednesday demanded capital punishment for the captain of a Chinese fishing boat accused of killing a South Korean law enforcement officer during a crackdown on illegal fishing last year. The 43-year-old captain, Cheng Dawei, was indicted in January on charges of stabbing Coast Guard Cpl. Lee Cheong-ho to death with a knife and seriously injuring another officer during a Dec. 12 raid

Dr. Leila Denmark, the world's oldest practicing physician when she retired at age 103, has died, her family members said. She was 114.Denmark became the first resident physician at Henrietta Egleston Hospital for Children in Atlanta when it opened in 1928, said her grandson, Steven Hutcherson of Atlanta. She also admitted the first patient at the hospital, now part of Children's Healthcare of Atl

Republican Mitt Romney notched a huge presidential primary triple win Tuesday, strengthening an already compelling case that he is the presumptive nominee in the battle for the White House. U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. (AFP-Yonhap News)Romney thumped his main rival Rick Santorum in Maryland and the US capital Washington, and was expected to win a tighter but more important r

The first planet that can be considered a true "alien Earth" will probably be discovered in the next two years, a NASA scientist says.An artist's rendering of a satellite above the Earth. (AFP)Astronomers have so far found more than 750 so-called "exoplanets" orbiting distant stars, and NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has identified 2,300 possible "candidates" that will require analysis and further

A nursing student expelled from a small Christian university and upset about being teased over his poor English skills opened fire at the school, going from room to room in a rampage that left six students and a secretary dead, police said Tuesday. Oakland Fire officials work outside of Oikos University after a school shooting in Oakland, California, Monday. (AP-Yonhap News)One L. Goh, 43, a South

Every once in a while a lottery jackpot becomes so huge that people can't help but band together in the hope of increasing their odds, pooling their money for a wad of tickets and promising to evenly split the spoils. Seems like a good idea until lightning strikes and the group wins.Then the future involves not only luxury, but also lawsuits. Numerous group winners have been sued by people claimin

South Korean pop groups Big Bang and 2NE1 are the most favored K-pop stars among French fans, a government poll released on Tuesday showed.In the online survey of 3,755 French respondents conducted by the Paris branch of the Korea Tourism Organization, 49.9 percent picked the five-member hip-hop band Big Bang as their favorite K-pop boy band and 64.8 percent chose the four-member hip-hop group2NE1