The Seoul municipal government said Monday it will give a subsidy of 1 million won ($847) per child to parents with disabilities starting this year.The support is aimed at easing the financial burden of childbirth on mothers and fathers with disabilities, as they often earn less than their nondisabled counterparts, a city government spokesman said.Last year, the average monthly salary of a family

외계생명체가 지구에 찾아온다고 해도 ‘맨인블랙3’와 같은 영화에서처럼 인간을 공격하거나 노예로 만들 확률은 적다고 미국의 한 전문가가 밝혔다. 영화 `맨인블랙`의 한 장면지난 35년간 외계지적생명체탐사 (SETI : Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence)에 종사한 천문학자 질 헌터는 지구까지 찾아올 정도로 발달된 문명을 가진 외계인이라면 노예나 음식, 다른 행성들이 필요 없을 것이라 말했다고 스페이스닷컴이 보도했다.타터는 ‘외계인들은 지구의 자원들을 착취하려 할 것’이라는 저명한 우주물리학자 스티븐 호킹 박사의 말에 반대한다면서 “만약 외계인이 온다면 단지 탐사목적일 것”이라고 말했다. 또한 그녀는 우주의 크기를 고려하면 지구 외에 다른 생명체와 마주쳤을 가능성도 높다고

Authorities have arrested a man in southwestern China accused of killing 11 people and dismembering, burning and burying their bodies to destroy the evidence.The Ministry of Public Security said in a statement Sunday that 56-year-old Zhang Yongming was arrested by police in Yunnan province on murder charges.It said Zhang is suspected of attacking male victims who were walking alone on a quiet road

(MCT)A German girl has been rescued by Bosnian police after allegedly being held captive by a couple for eight years during which she was forced to eat pig feed and pull a horse-cart.A neighbor who raised the alarm told AFP he witnessed the couple treating the girl, now 19, like an animal. Milenko and Slavojka Marinkovic were arrested at their home in a village in the northwestern Tuzla region aft

Iran is to build a new nuclear power plant, alongside its sole existing one in the southern city of Bushehr, by early 2014, state television reported on Sunday, quoting the head of the country's Atomic Energy Organization."Iran will build a 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plant in Bushehr next year," the television quoted Fereydoon Abbasi Davani as saying. He was referring to the Iranian calendar yea

Argentine experts have discovered the near-complete remains of a new species of Jurassic-era dinosaur that stood on its rear legs and had tiny arms, a leading paleontologist said Thursday.(AFP)The find belongs to the Abelisaurus family, "the most common carnivorous species in the southern hemisphere during the Cretaceous Period," some 70 to 100 million years ago, paleontologist Diego Pol told AFP.

In the plains of central Kansas, tornadoes are so unremarkable that guests barely flinched as a barrel-racing bride wed her bull-riding groom with a twister dropping from the sky in the distance.(YouTube)Caleb and Candra Pence's wedding last Saturday is generating the kind of buzz usually reserved for celebrity nuptials. The video of the service has gone viral, garnering more than 70,000 views on

Tehran has "no reason" to suspend its enrichment of uranium to 20 percent -- one of the key demands of world powers engaging Iran in talks -- the head of its Atomic Energy Organisation said."We have no reason to cede on 20 percent, because we produce only as much of the 20 percent fuel as we need. No more, no less," Fereydoon Abbasi Davani was quoted as saying late Saturday by the ISNA and Mehr ne

North Korea is stepping up its fight against drought as a prolonged dry spell in the rice-planting season could deal a blow to food production and negatively impact the rule of the its new young leader.The impoverished nation's main Rodong Sinmun newspaper, state television and other media outlets are urging citizens to utilize every possible source of water to irrigate rice paddies, while also of

An unusual love story of a man who fell for a mannequin was introduced via a YouTube video clip.(YouTube)Duaveed Hakhainhaguadole met the mannequin “Clara” at an adult store in Los Angeles and married her with the help of Internet DJ “Psycho Mike.”Hakhainhaguadole said his newfound love was perfect -- no arguing, no screaming, and no complaining. When asked if Clara was the love of his life Hakhai

South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan held talks with his Chilean counterpart this week and agreed to work together to elevate relations between the two countries to a comprehensive cooperative partnership, officials said Saturday.Chile was the third stop in Kim's four-nation tour of South America that already took him to Colombia and Peru. After Chile, Kim plans to visit Brazil. The Latin A

The private company SpaceX made history with the docking of its Dragon capsule to the International Space Station, the most impressive feat yet in turning routine spaceflight over to the commercial sector.The docking Friday marked the first time a business enterprise delivered a supply ship to the space station.“There's so much that could have gone wrong and it went right,” said an elated Elon Mus

A British man who plunged 2,400 feet in his wing suit and landed on cardboard boxes said he is the first to survive jumping from the height without a parachute.Gary Connery, 42, of Henley-on-Thames, England, jumped from a helicopter Wednesday at 2,400 feet and used his wing suit to slow his descent to 15 mph before landing on a pile containing 18,600 cardboard boxes, The Daily Telegraph reported T

Police in Florida said a man allegedly pointed a gun at three women so they would let him cut in at a McDonald's drive-through lane.West Palm Beach Police said James Lee Cruz, 58, allegedly pulled his car up to another vehicle at the McDonald's on Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard around 1:35 a.m. May 13 and pointed a gun at the women inside their car, the Palm Beach (Fla.) Post reported Friday.Police sa

Police in Massachusetts attempting to deal with a herd of loose cows said the beer-loving bovines crashed a backyard party and cleared it of brews.(MCT)Boxford Police Lt. James Riter said he was directing traffic around the herd on Main Street when the cows took off for the back yard of a nearby home, The Boston Globe reported Friday."I could hear screaming coming from the back of the house. When

Chinese authorities arrested a man and his girlfriend in the death of an elderly woman he knocked down while driving drunk and whose body was later found buried at a construction site. Police say the woman likely was alive when buried.The official Xinhua News Agency reported Thursday the couple was intoxicated and returning home from a bar in the eastern city of Cixi on April 30 when the man ran o

 Who's going to win the European Championship? Time to ask an elephant -- or a pig.Poland's answer to Paul the Octopus -- the tentacled tipster who gained worldwide fame for his 2010 World Cup predictions -- is Citta the elephant. Ukraine, however, will probably go for an enormous beer-loving pig -- but there are big doubts about whether he can handle the media glare.The parade of supposedly psych

(AP photo)Experts are trying to figure out what a fossil dubbed "Godzillus" used to be.The 150-pound fossil recovered last year in northern Kentucky is more than 6 feet long and 3 feet wide. To the untrained eye, it looks like a bunch of rocks or a concrete blob. Experts are trying to determine whether it was an animal, mineral or a form of plant life from a time when the Cincinnati region was und

An 84-year-old Swedish woman who fell through the fabric of a chair on her balcony was stuck for two days, friends said.Neighbors in Karlskrona told the Kvallsposten newspaper they became concerned when they noticed the woman's newspaper hadn't been brought inside and the woman failed to show up for church on Sunday, The Local.se reported Wednesday.Friends and neighbors contacted the building's ca

A woman who called 911 after her husband was unable to breathe found a snoring Maryland dispatcher at the other end of the line.The woman called 911 from her Montgomery County home on April 4. According to a recording of the call, she repeatedly says "hello" but gets no reply. A second dispatcher intervenes and gives her first aid advice as the first dispatcher can be heard snoring. The woman's hu