The first batch of players named to South Korean men's national football team reported to their training camp on Tuesday as they prepared to host five-time World Cup champion Brazil.South Korea, ranked 58th, will host the world No. 8 Brazil at Seoul World Cup Stadium at 8 p.m. on Saturday. Players from leagues in Europe, China and Japan were the first to join the camp set up at the National Football Center here in Paju, north of Seoul. They will later be joined by players based in the domestic K

The Dodgers advanced to their first National League championship series since 2009 after Juan Uribe hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the eighth inning for a 4-3 victory over the Atlanta Braves on Monday.Yasiel Puig doubled down the right-field line leading off the eighth against losing pitcher David Carpenter. The rookie charged into second base and pumped his right fist in the air in celebration. Fans were on their feet chanting “Let's go Dodgers!” when Uribe fouled off two bunt attempts, then

South Korean stocks traded 0.45 percent lower late Tuesday morning amid the prolonged concerns over the extended United States government shutdown, analysts said.The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) moved down 9.04 points to 1,985.38 as of 11:20 a.m.Tech shares traded lower, with market behemoth Samsung Electronics falling 0.77 percent and top chipmaker SK hynix decreasing 0.76 percent. Local handset maker LG Electronics shed 1.61 percent.Builders also traded bearish, with Dae

Government liabilities, including the debt that will highly likely arise in the future, exceeded 900 trillion won ($840.3 billion) last year, data showed Tuesday.According to the data recently submitted by the finance ministry to Rep. Kim Tae-ho of the ruling Saenuri Party, government liabilities stood at 902.1 trillion won as of end-2012. The number is higher than the 773.5 trillion won tallied a year earlier. The 2012 figure represents 70.9 percent of the country's gross domestic product.The l

Samsung Electronics Co, the world's top maker of smartphones, memory chips and flat-panel TVs, and two other South Korean companies were named among the world's top 100 global innovators, a study showed Tuesday.The two other companies were LG Electronics Inc., the world's third-largest smartphone maker, and LS Industrial Systems Co., a leading South Korean manufacturer of electric components, according to the annual study by Thomson Reuters.It marked the third consecutive year that Samsung Elect

Alex Rodriguez's lawsuit claiming Major League Baseball and Commissioner Bud Selig went on a “witch hunt” to force him from the sport has been moved from state to federal court.Major League Baseball filed a notice of removal Monday, saying claims by the New York Yankees third baseman are governed by federal law.The lawsuit, originally filed Thursday in New York Supreme Court in Manhattan, was assigned to U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield, who joined the bench in December, and U.S. Magistrat

South Korean stocks opened lower Tuesday amid the rising concerns that the United States government is moving closer to the possibility of the first-ever default on its debt, analysts said.The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) moved down 8.57 points, or 0.43 percent, to 1,985.85 in the first 15 minutes of trading.Shares lost ground across the board, with market behemoth Samsung Electronics falling 0.35 percent and top steelmaker POSCO losing 0.32 percent. Leading auto parts mak

Argentina's president will undergo surgery Tuesday to remove blood between her brain and skull that has been causing new and worrying symptoms, her physicians said.The president's doctors said they had ordered President Cristina Fernandez on Saturday to rest for a month after discovering the subdural hematoma _ a clot inside her skull pressuring her brain and causing headaches. In some patients, such blood clots reabsorb by themselves over time. But the situation became more urgent after Fernand

The Supreme Court of the Maldives on Monday annulled the results of the first round of voting in the country's presidential election, agreeing with a losing candidate's claim that the election was flawed.Four judges of a seven-member panel decided that some 5,600 votes cast in the Sept. 7 first round were tainted, making it unclear which candidates qualified for a runoff. The court ordered revoting to be completed by Nov. 3.Former President Mohamed Nasheed led the vote with more than 45 percent

A planned naval drill involving South Korea, the United States and Japan in waters off the Korean Peninsula's southern coast has been delayed as a typhoon is fast approaching, bringing high waves and strong gusts, military officials in Seoul said Tuesday. The trilateral drill was scheduled to take place from Tuesday to Thursday to carry out maritime maneuvering, and search and rescue operations as part of routine training that involves the American aircraft carrier the USS George Washington, and

A string of attacks across Iraq, including a coordinated wave of evening bombings in Baghdad, killed at least 45 people Monday as al-Qaida claimed responsibility for a recent spate of rare suicide attacks in the relatively peaceful Kurdish north.Monday's bombings marked the third day in a row that insurgents were able to unleash attacks powerful enough to claim fatalities numbering in the dozens. The mounting bloodshed is heightening worries that the country is returning to the widespread sectar

South Korea's economy is showing signs of recovering from its prolonged slump, the country's top economic policymaker said Tuesday, citing the latest major indicators pointing to the overall improvement. "Given major economic indicators, our economy is recently showing signs of recovering," Finance Minister Hyun Oh-seok said at a meeting with other government officials. He cited a 1.8 percent growth in industrial output in August and the upward trend in home prices in Seoul and its surrounding a

An unusual issue has cropped up in the gubernatorial race of the U.S. state of Virginia -- what to call the body of water between Korea and Japan.Terry McAuliffe, a Democratic candidate, on Monday threw his weight behind a grass-roots campaign to have the name "East Sea" used in the textbooks of public schools in the state just south of Washington, D.C."The body of water known, alternately, as the East Sea or the Sea of Japan, should be properly labeled with both names,"McAuliffe told reporters

North Korea has placed its troops on an emergency posture in protest against joint drills here by South Korea, the U.S. and Japan which involved a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, Pyongyang’s state media said Tuesday. The General Staff of the Korean People’s Army lambasted the deployment of the USS George Washington in the East Sea, which arrived in Busan on Sept. 30 for four-day Seoul-Washington maritime exercises and trilateral programs with Tokyo scheduled for Oct. 8-10. The latter drills we

As the federal government shutdown entered its second week with no end in sight, the prospect of a U.S. default loomed next after the top Republican in Congress ruled out any measure to boost U.S. borrowing authority without concessions from President Barack Obama.Washington will be closely watching the financial markets on Monday to see if the uncompromising talk rattles Wall Street and worldwide economies just 10 days before the threat of default would be imminent.Treasury Secretary Jack Lew w

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad can take "credit" for moving quickly to eliminate his regime's chemical arms, the United States said Monday, as disarmament experts said Damascus was being "cooperative".Speaking in Indonesia, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry welcomed the start of work to destroy Syria's chemical weapons under the terms of a UN Security Council resolution."The process has begun in record time and we are appreciative for the Russian cooperation and obviously for the Syrian compl

Participants celebrate the 60th anniversary of Herald Corp. at Blue Square in Seoul on Monday. From left at the front row are KCCI chairman Park Yong-maan, Culture Minister Yoo Jin-ryong, Prime Minister Chung Hong-won, Herald Corp. chairman Jungwook Hong, ruling Saenuri Party leader Hwang Woo-yea and Herald Corp. CEO Lee Young-man. (Kim Myung-sub/The Korea Herald)Herald Corp., publisher of The Korea Herald and The Herald Business, celebrated the 60th anniversary of its foundation with a receptio

Americans James Rothman and Randy Schekman and German-born researcher Thomas Suedhof won the 2013 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries on how hormones, enzymes and other key substances are transported within cells.This traffic control system keeps activities inside cells from descending into chaos and has helped researchers gain a better understanding of a range of diseases including diabetes and disorders affecting the immune system, the committee said.Working in the 1970s, `80s an

The purchase of 31 A350 planes deals a blow to U.S. rival Boeing, which had been JAL's star supplier for decades.Airbus Chief Executive and President Fabrice Bregier and Japan Airlines President Yoshiharu Ueki signed the deal Monday in Tokyo, which includes an option for JAL to buy 25 more Airbus planes. They declined to give the actual price tag on the deal. Ueki said the decision to turn to the European manufacturer, based in Toulouse, France, for replacements for retiring Boeing 777 jets was

The financial regulator said Monday it will ask the prosecution to investigate the chairman of Tong Yang Group for allegations that he sold his company debts to investors even though he knew about their default risks stemming from the group's liquidity shortage. "We found that there is a need for an investigation on (Tong Yang's) controlling stakeholders in relation to their financial transactions between the group's affiliates," Kim Gun-sop, the deputy governor of the Financial Supervisory Serv