Jerusalem College of Technology President Thierry Dana-Picard (second from right), Israeli Ambassador Tuvia Israeli (right), Kenyan Ambassador Ngovi Kitau (left) and Argentinean Ambassador Carlos Albertos Arganaraz (center) pose before a lecture on science and religion, in Seoul on Tuesday.  (Robert Lee/The Korea Herald)

(MCT)Concert organizers pulled the plug on rock stars Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney after the pair defied the sound curfew at London's Hyde Park, silencing their microphones at the tail end of the show.Springsteen had already exceeded the 10:30 p.m. curfew by half an hour Saturday night when he welcomed McCartney on stage and the pair sang the Beatles hits I Saw Her Standing There” and Twis

Adventurers Kent Couch and Fareed Lafta lift off Saturda from Couch`s gas station in Bend, Oregon, as they attempt to fly some 360 miles to Montana. (AP-Yonhap News)A lawn chair balloon flight for two men was forced to land early in Oregon due to variable wind, thunderstorms and the loss of 35 helium-filled balloons.Kent Couch and Fareed Lafta hoped to reach Montana by Sunday in their specially bu

There were no signs of foul play or trauma in the death of Sage Stallone, whose sudden passing at the age of 36 left his father Sylvester Stallone devastated, a publicist and investigators said.Sage Stallone was found unresponsive in his Los Angeles home Friday by an employee and a relative, and police arrived and confirmed he was dead, Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said.“Sylvester Stallone is

North Korea said Monday that its military chief Ri Yong-ho, known as one of the closest confidants of leader Kim Jong-un, has been removed from all his posts because of his "illness.""A meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party decided to relieve Ri Yong-ho of all his posts for his illness," the North's Korean Central News Agency said in a brief dispatch from P

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they've developed an automatic "intelligent co-pilot" for cars that can help drivers avoid obstacles.The system can cause a vehicle to steer itself automatically around an obstacle, transitioning control back to the driver once the danger has passed, an MIT release said Friday.The semiautonomous safety system uses an onboard camera and las

South Korean forward Park Chu-young (in red jersey)scores the first goal of the match during a warm-up match against New Zealand in Seoul. (Yonhap News)South Korea's Olympic football team beat its New Zealand side 2-1 in its final warm-up match on Saturday ahead of the London Olympics. Arsenal forward Park Chu-young scored South Korea's first goal in the 18th minute at Seoul World Cup Stadium, but

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (front-center) holds a child during a visit to a Pyongyang kindergarten with an unidentified woman (left) who is speculated to be his wife. (Yonhap News)A chicly-dressed woman was seen closely flanking North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during his visit to a Pyongyang kindergarten in state TV footage shown Sunday, reinforcing speculation she may be the wife of the youn

(123rf)Miami and Atlanta had the most sexually adventurous residents, who exhibited the highest sex drive, a survey of the Top 10 U.S. markets indicated.The Trojan Charged Survey, conducted by StrategyOne, indicated Atlanta topped the list with 71 percent who said they were sexually adventurous and 7.2-out-of-10 exhibited the highest sex drive.At 73 percent, Miami residents rated the highest rate

Animal rescuers in California said a kitten stowed away in a shipping container and made a 6,500 mile freighter trip from China.Marcia Mayeda, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care & Control, said the kitten survived the trip without any food or water and was taken to the Carson Animal Center after the crate she was in was delivered Thursday to a Compton business, the Los An

(123rf)Thousands of bees swarmed outside the Stockholm headquarters of a major Swedish clothing chain. Annette Rieger, who works in the H&M building, told The Local.se the swarm was outside for about 3 hours Friday afternoon. "I saw them all over the windows. They even got through the first level of glazing," she said. "My colleague was super scared because she is allergic to bees!"Johan Jarbrant,

The embattled Unified Progressive Party (UPP) on Sunday elected reformist interim leader Kang Ki-kab as its new chairman in a nationwide vote, hoping that it would end months of factional infighting that has thrown the minor left-wing party into chaos.Party officials said Kang, who has served as the interim leader of the UPP since late April, was elected to the top leadership over Kang Byung-gee w

An autistic man lived on frogs and roots as he wandered for weeks in the remote Escalante Desert of southern Utah until being rescued, emaciated but alive.William Martin LaFever, 28, told rescuers that in addition to the bits of food he scavenged, including a few frogs he caught, he drank water from the Escalante River while attempting to walk from Boulder, Utah, to Page, Arizona, a distance of ap

A central Nebraska man landed in jail for writing a bomb threat on the back of a restaurant job application.The Kearney Hub reports that the Legacy 272 Lounge employee who reviewed 38-year-old Jason Dornhoff's application last Thursday called police when he read the threat that closed with: "If you be quiet and help me, you won't die."Police arrested Dornhoff, of Heartwell, Neb., at gunpoint and s

Police in South Carolina said they arrested a pair of drunken men who were spotted walking around a city's downtown "completely in the nude."Charleston police said an officer spotted Christoph Robin Egan, 19, and Andrew Stephen Dunford, 21, both of Montclair, N.J., walking "completely in the nude" around 2 a.m. Monday on Logan Street, the Post and Courier, Charleston, reported Wednesday.The office

(123rf)"Sonified" data from experiments at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland makes it possible to "hear" the newly discovered Higgs boson, researchers say.The result, they said, is a melody that resembles the syncopated rhythm of the habanera, a Cuban dance popular in Spain in the early 19th century."As soon as the [Higgs discovery] announcement was made, we begun working on the sonificatio

The U.S. deficit in trade with South Korea has continued to jump since their free trade agreement went into effect in March, according to U.S. government data released Wednesday.The U.S. imported $5.4 billion in goods from South Korea in May, a 5.2-percent increase from the same period last year, the Commerce Department said.Exports to South Korea totaled $3.4 billion, down 6.4 percent from the pr

South Korea said Wednesday it may scrap its fiercely criticized plan to resume "scientific" whaling if experts come up with non-lethal means to study the mammals in its waters."We may not conduct whaling for scientific research if there is another way to achieve the goal," Kang Joon-Suk, a senior official of the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, told reporters.South Korea unve

  (MCT)One of Britain's richest women, American-born Eva Rausing, was found dead in her west London home and a man was arrested in connection with the case, British police said Tuesday, adding that an autopsy had failed to uncover a formal cause of death. Rausing, 48, was the wife of Hans Kristian Rausing, heir to the TetraPak fortune his father built by creating a successful manufacturer of lamin

(123rf)Infants, who had contact with dogs at home had fewer respiratory tract symptoms or infections than children with no dog contacts, researchers in Finland found.Lead author Dr. Eija Bergroth, a pediatrician who worked at Kuopio University Hospital in Finland at the time of the study, and colleagues at Kuopio University Hospital, the National Institute for Health and Welfare in Kuopio, Finland