페루에서 한 여성이 TV 퀴즈쇼에서 자신의 과거를 고백했다가 남자친구에게 살해당하는 사건이 일어났다.현지 언론 보도에 따르면 브라이언 로메로 레이바는 자신의 여자친구 루스 탈리아 사야즈 (19) 씨를 살해하고 지난 주말, 에콰도르로 도주하려던 도중 체포되었다 한다. 레이바는 퀴즈쇼를 통해 자신의 여자친구가 과거 나이트클럽에서 일한 적이 있으며 매춘경험도 있다는 것을 알게 된 후 분노해 이와 같은 일을 저질렀다.문제의 퀴즈쇼는 현재 페루에서 엄청난 인기를 끌고 있는 토요 프로그램 ‘엘 발로 드 라 베르다드 (진실의 가치)’로서 출연자들은 개인적인 질문에 대한 답변을 하는 대가로 거액을 받게 된다. 21가지 질문에 모두 답한 출연자는 5만 솔 (한화 약 2천1백만원)을 받을 수 있다.이 프로그램에 지난 7월에

The government said Tuesday it will buy a plot of land where President Lee Myung-bak once sought to build his retirement home, raising suspicions it might be intended to offset losses for the land's co-owner who is the president's son.According to the finance ministry, the government decided to purchase the 463-square-meter plot in Naegok-dong on the southern edge of Seoul at the previous acquisit

(123rf)Microorganisms embedded in fragments of distant planets that crashed to Earth might have been seeds of life on our planet, U.S. and European researchers say.Scientists from Princeton University, the University of Arizona and the Centro de Astrobiologia in Spain, writing in the journal Astrobiology, said there is a possibility that life came to Earth -- or spread from Earth to other planets

(123rf)Amy Bishop, who shot six members of the University of Alabama faculty in 2010, killing three, was sentenced Monday to life without parole.A jury found Bishop guilty of one count of capital murder just hours after her trial began, WAFF-TV, Huntsville, reported.The jury of eight men and six women, including two alternates, was sworn in after a brief selection process in an accelerated trial e

South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan on Monday stressed the importance of promoting "correct history" at the United Nations.Kim said he discussed history issues in a bilateral meeting here with his Chinese counterpart, Yang Jiechi. The ministers are visiting New York to attend the 67th session of the U.N. General Assembly."We agreed with the need to publicize history, I mean correct history

South Korean consumers' confidence stayed below par for the second straight month in September as the protracted eurozone debt crisis heightened economic uncertainties, the central bank said Tuesday.The consumer sentiment index -- a gauge of consumers' overall economic outlook, living conditions and future spending -- came in at 99 for September, unchanged from the previous month, according to a s

A senior Pentagon official said Monday that South Korea has "a lot of ways" to help the U.S. missile defense system in Northeast Asia."Yes, there are a lot of ways one can contribute," Kathleen Hicks, principal deputy under secretary of defense for policy, said at a forum. "We do have dialogue with the (South) Koreans about how to contribute to missile defense."She was responding to Yonhap News Ag

Kumho Tire Co. reached a tentative wage deal with its union early Tuesday after overnight marathon negotiations, the company said.Under the agreement, South Korea's second-biggest tire maker will give workers 2.5 million won (US$2,200) and 50 percent of their monthly wages as lump-sum incentive payments.The labor union will vote on the tentative agreement on Thursday.The tentative deal came more t

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shrugged off threats of a military strike on his country's nuclear facilities, showing defiance ahead of his final appearance at the UN General Assembly this week.In previous years, the Iranian leader has regularly sparked United Nations walkouts over his comments on Israel, and Israel's UN ambassador again marched out when Ahmadinejad appeared at a meeting on

Japan should resolve a long-standing grievance regarding Korean women forced to serve as sex slaves during World War II through a sincere apology and compensation, a senior Seoul official said Monday, refuting published remarks on the matter by Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda.The issue of Japan's wartime sexual enslavement of tens of thousands of Korean women for its front-line soldiers is

영국에서 15세 소녀가 유부남인 남자 교사와 프랑스로 달아나 화제가 되고 있다.현지 보도에 따르면 서섹스 출신의 메건 스태머스는 지난 21일 (현지시간) 자신의 학교에서 근무하는 수학교사 제레미 포레스트와 함께 영국 해협을 건너 현재 프랑스를 여행중인 것으로 추정되고 있다고 한다. 메건은 이날 오전 학교에 가겠다고 집을 나선 이후 행방이 묘연해졌는데, 경찰이 CCTV를 조사한 결과 당일 메건과 포레스트가 포레스트의 차를 함께 타고 프랑스의 칼레행 페리선을 타는 장면이 포착된 것을 확인되었다.포레스트는 몇 달동안이나 메건에게 페이스북을 통해 자신과 함께 떠나자고 설득을 했는데, 그 중에는 “나랑 나랑. 그냥 도망 가자고”라는 메시지도 있었던 것으로 알려졌다.한편 메건은 사건이 발생하기 4일전에 온라인 커뮤니티

(123rf)A Korean private bioengineering laboratory led by disgraced stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk said Monday it is stepping up efforts to make progress in cloning an extinct woolly mammoth.To that end, the Sooam Biotech Research Foundation signed an agreement Sunday with Russia's North-Eastern Federal University that gives the foundation the exclusive right to study the mammoth remains found i

North Korea will likely discuss economic reforms when its rubber-stamp parliament holds an irregular session this week, a foreign news report said Monday."Economic adjustment" will be discussed in the Sept. 25 meeting of the Supreme People's Assembly, but the session will not likely result in any major decisions, the foreign news wire said. Speculations have risen that the North will take legal st

Homer Simpson, the animated star of Matt Groening's "The Simpsons," voted for Mitt Romney in an online promotional clip for the show's new season.The ad for the new season, set to air Sept. 30, shows Simpson weighing his options at a polling station, Politico reported Friday.When considering President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Romney, Simpson says, "Barack Obama, I don't know. I already

Prosecutors said Sunday they have indicted two owners of South Korea's largest hostess bar on charges of sex trafficking, tax evasion and other illegal activities.The two brothers, identified only by their surname Kim, are suspected of earning more than 6.1 billion won (US$5.4 million) by running a room salon in Seoul and arranging acts of prostitution more than 88,000 times between July 2010 and

People with psychopathic tendencies -- callousness, manipulation and anti-social behaviors -- have an impaired sense of smell, Australian researchers say. Mehmet Mahmut and Richard Stevenson of Macquarie University in Australia said studies showed people with psychopathic traits have impaired functioning in the front part of the brain -- the area largely responsible for functions such as planning,

(Yonhap News)Top seed Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark captured the KDB Korea Open tennis title here Sunday after earning a lopsided victory over third-seeded Kaia Kanepi of Estonia.Wozniacki, the world's 11th-ranked player, pounded Kanepi 6-1, 6-0 in just 62 minutes to claim the only Women's Tennis Association (WTA) event in South Korea each fall. Wozniacki took home US$112,300 for her 19th career W

Police in Florida said a man accused of exposing himself to an underage girl sent her a Facebook message asking her to "please drop the charges."The Bradenton Police Department alleges Broderick Cameron Furlow, 25 -- who was arrested in May for allegedly exposing his genitals to the girl at a bus stop -- sent her a Facebook message Tuesday asking her to drop the charges, or at least fail to show u

Houston police shot and killed a mentally troubled, wheelchair-bound double amputee Saturday, authorities said.Police said Brian Claunch, described as a schizophrenic in his 40s, was waving a writing pen when he was fatally shot about 2 a.m. at a personal care residence, the Houston Chronicle reported.John Garcia, owner of the home, said Claunch had become upset when his caretaker wouldn't give hi

A scene from Psy's "Gangnam Style" music video.A light-hearted dance battle between rival gangs in Thailand took a nasty turn when the situation escalated into an actual shootout, the local press reported on Sunday.The two gangs were dining at the same restaurant in Bangkok on Friday when their teenage members started to challenge each other by performing the ‘horse-riding’ dance from the hit musi