Sudan declared a state of emergency along its border with South Sudan on Sunday after month-long border clashes, as four foreigners allegedly arrested in the Heglig oil region remained in custody.President Omar al-Bashir issued a resolution declaring the emergency in the border states of South Kordofan, White Nile and Sennar, the official SUNA news agency said. Other parts of the border were alrea

Playing an action videogame, even for just a short time, causes differences in brain activity and improvements in visual attention, Canadian researchers say.Twenty-five subjects who had not previously played videogames, taking part in research at the University of Toronto, played a game for a total of 10 hours in 1- to 2-hour sessions.Sixteen of the subjects played a first-person shooter game and,

A man running the London Marathon stopped only 800 meters from the finish line and dropped to one knee to propose to his girlfriend.Ben McCreadie, 28, of Newport, Wales, was running the 42-kilometer race Sunday and stopped just short of the finish line to kneel in front of his girlfriend, Laura Rendell, 30, who was in the crowd to cheer for him, and ask her to marry him, The Sun reported Thursday.

A California man who lived for 94 years and six months with a bullet in his head has died at the age of 103.William Lawlis Pace, who was certified as a Guinness World Record holder in 2006 when he had lived for 89 years with the bullet in his head, died Monday at the Covenant Village retirement home in Turlock, The Modesto Bee reported Friday.Pace said in 2006 the bullet entered his skull when he

Smartphones are the hottest gadgets in the world. But who's the biggest smartphone maker? We don't really know. (AP-Yonhap News)Samsung, Apple's chief competitor, gives only vague indications of how many it makes, which means industry watchers come up with widely diverging estimates. Apple Inc. reports its iPhone sales down to the thousands. In the January to March period, it shipped 35,064,000. S

US law enforcement blew the roof off a mountain hideout in Washington state on Saturday and inside found the body of a man suspected of killing his wife and teenage daughter, officials said.Peter Keller, who had been missing since Sunday when the bullet-ridden bodies of Lynnettee Rocha Keller, 41, and their 19-year-old daughter Kaylene Keller were discovered at the family home, apparently died of

Hong Kong businessman Kennedy Tam always wanted to travel the world. When he died suddenly of a stroke in 2010, his wife Freda decided death would not stand in his way.Since that day, Freda has taken Kennedy on trips to New York, Canada, Shanghai and Turkey."We are always together. Even at work he is always near me," said Freda, 48.As she talks, Freda looks lovingly down at the necklace around her

 Lady Gaga was spotted cruising around Seoul Thursday.A Korean actress Jin Jae-young said on her twitter that she witnessed the pop star passing by on a black sedan. “I just saw Lady Gaga. When I called out her name she blew a kiss at me and said “annyunghasaeyo -- Korean word for hello -- to me. It’s awesome,” she wrote.In the photo Jin posted, Gaga sits on a black vehicle and appears to say some

Kigongo with his youngest wife aged 18, and his children and grandchildren in 1997A 103-year-old Ugandan man died after fathering 158 children and amassing around 500 grandchildren.Jack Kigongo of Kateera village fathered his children from 20 wives, with the oldest child being 60-years-old and the youngest being 15, The New Vision, Uganda, reported Wednesday.Patrick Bulira Kigongo said his father,

People magazine has named Beyonce as the World's Most Beautiful Woman for 2012. In this cover image released by People, singer Beyonce graces the cover of People magazine`s special issue naming her the World`s Most Beautiful Woman for 2012. (AP-Yonhap News)The 30-year-old singer tops the magazine's annual list of the World's Most Beautiful” in a special double issue. The announcement was made Wedn

Korea’s year-on-year GDP expanded 2.8 percent, the slowest on-year growth rate for two and a half years, the Bank of Korea said Thursday.But Korea's economy grew at the fastest pace for a year on a quarterly basis in January-March due to strong industrial output.A rise in demand and strong government spending also helped offset softness in the construction and agricultural sectors.Gross domestic p

Geological evidence suggests a tsunami described by the ancient historian Herodotus did indeed protect a Greek village from Persian invaders, scientists say.Researchers from Aachen University in Germany said sediment on the northern Greek peninsula where the ancient village Potidea and the modern town of Nea Potidea are located shows signs of massive marine events such as large waves, evidence of

Swiss scientists have demonstrated how a partially paralyzed person can control a robot by thought alone, a step they hope will one day allow immobile people to interact with their surroundings through so-called avatars.Similar experiments have taken place in the United States and Germany, but they involved either able-bodied patients or invasive brain implants.On Tuesday, a team at Switzerland's

Top beef exporter the United States revealed Tuesday it had discovered a case of mad cow disease in California, prompting a scramble to reassure consumers at home and abroad. (MCT)The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported the country's fourth-ever case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), but stressed the outbreak was contained and no meat has entered the food chain.The infected dairy cow

Authorities in Georgia say a grandmother foiled a robbery attempt by two armed men by getting into a shootout with them, wounding one man.Police told The Telegraph that Lulu Campbell had just dropped off her grandson at her daughter's house early Saturday morning when someone demanded money outside her car, threatening to shoot her.Campbell says the man fired at her, missing. The 57-year-old fired

The new intercontinental ballistic missiles displayed in a military parade in North Korea were mock-ups and the presentation was "a nice dog and pony show," according to two German experts on North Korean missiles.The North showed off the missiles on transporter-erector-launchers during the parade to mark the centennial of the April 15 birth of the country's late founder Kim Il-sung, the grandfath

오는 4월 27일 서울 올림픽 주경기장서 첫 월드투어를 여는 레이디 가가가 활달한 그녀의 성격과는 달리 호텔 방에서 통 나오지 않고 있다.  팝스타 레이디 가가(연합뉴스)오늘 오전 강남의 한 호텔 로비에서 그녀의 보디가드로 보이는 두명의 남자가 “레이디가 오전에는 못 일어난다. 오늘 새벽 한시에도 일어나 앉아있더라”고 대화를 주고받는 장면이 코리아헤럴드 기자에게 목격되었다.“그들은 아침식사시간에도 그녀가 잠을 청했으며 다시 일어났을 때는 배고파하는 것 같았다며 안쓰럽다”는 대화를 주고받았다고.지난 쇼케이스때와는 달리 언론에 모습을 거의 드러내지 않는 레이디 가가는 오는 콘서트를 앞두고 신경이 매우 예민해 있는 것으로 알려졌다.그녀는 이번 한국공연을 앞두고는 어느 매체와도 인터뷰를 하지 않겠다고 했으며, 기자

Fire broke out at Mount Halla National Park Tuesday, according to local fire department.Jeju Island Provincial office said they deployed helicopters along with 4,000 civil servants to battle the flames.From news report <관련 한글 기사>한라산에 불..진화 헬기 등 총동원24일 낮 12시께 세계자연유산인 한라산국립공원 어리목 인근의 해발 1천450m 사제비오름에 발생한 산불이 오후 2시께 대부분 진압됐 다.한라산국립공원사무소에 따르면 발화지점은 사제비오름 약수터 근처이며, 이 불 로 인근지역 1.6㏊가량이 소실됐다.산불은 바람을 타고 발화

The 400-year-old ``Beau Sancy,'' one of the world's oldest and most storied diamonds in private hands, is up for sale at Sotheby's auction house. Weighing in at 34.98 carats, the sparkling gem with a rare pear cut is expected to fetch up to $4 million. The Beau Sancy, a 34.98 carat diamond that will be put on sale by Sotheby`s auction house in Geneva next month, is presented in Paris, Monday. (AP-

Russian scientists said that 76 types of micro-organisms have been causing “severe damage” to the International Space Station, according to Interfax news agency and other local news reports.(MCT)“We had these problems on the old MIR space station, now we have them on the ISS. The microflora is attacking the station. These organisms corrode metals and polymers and can cause equipment to fail,” Anat