South Korea intends to consider using the term "sex slaves" to describe women who were forced to serve in Japanese military brothels in World War II, Seoul's top diplomat said Friday.South Korean victims have long been euphemistically called "comfort woman."South Korea is "willing to consider" changing the wording to sex slaves, South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan said in a parliamentary s

Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky leaves the Centre County Courthouse with a Centre County Sheriff`s deputy after being found guilty of multiple charges of child sexual abuse in Bellefonte, Pa., Friday, June 22, 2012. (AP-Yonhap News)BELLEFONTE, Pennsylvania (AP) _ Jerry Sandusky, a top coach in one of America's prominent college football programs, was convicted

This baby raccoon was found trapped in a city grate. (UPI)DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich., June 22 (UPI) -- Municipal workers in a Michigan city said they freed a baby raccoon that became stuck head first in a large iron sewer grate.Dearborn Heights Emergency Manager Robert Ankrapp said Department of Public Works Director Bill Zimmer was in his front yard Wednesday morning when he noticed the baby raccoon

Germany`s Philipp Lahm, left, celebrates after scoring during the Euro 2012 soccer championship quarterfinal match between Germany and Greece in Gdansk, Poland, Friday, June 22, 2012. (AP-Yonhap News)GDANSK, Poland (AP) _ With Chancellor Angela Merkel cheering every step of the way, Germany dominated Greece _ on the football field.The Germans reached the European Championship semifinals for a reco

SEOUL, June 23 (Yonhap) -- The government said Saturday it is pouring manpower, emergency equipment and allocating relief funds into countering the worst drought the country has faced in decades.The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said 1,413 workers and 810 pieces of equipment, such as water pumps have been dispatched to help residents and farms in the worst hit areas of the

Paraguay`s former President Fernando Lugo addresses the nation after the Senate voted to remove him from office in an impeachment trial at the presidential palace in Asuncion, Paraguay, Friday, June 22, 2012. Lugo said he would leave office even though he considered his ouster by Friday`s Senate vote a blow to democracy. (AP-Yonhap News)ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) _ Paraguay's Senate removed President

In a file photo, Kim Hyo-ju, 17, holds up the trophy after winning the Lotte Mart Ladies Open in April. On Sunday Kim won the Suntory Ladies Open, an annual golf tournament on the LPGA of Japan Tour, with 17- under-par 271. She became the youngest winner of the tournament and added one more victory to Korean female golfers’ 16 winnings on the JLPGA Tour so far. The prize money of 18 million yen we

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) _ Two suicide blasts ripped through the Syrian capital Thursday, killing 55 people and leaving scenes of carnage in the streets in the deadliest bombing since the country's uprising began 14 months ago, the Interior Ministry said.An Associated Press reporter at the scene said paramedics wearing rubber gloves were collecting human remains from the pavement after the explosions.

The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), an intergovernmental organization representing maritime bureaucrats around the world, decided Thursday not to revise a global chart to include the "East Sea" name for the waters separating the Korean Peninsula and Japan, officials said Thursday.The decision represented a failure of diplomacy by South Korea for the concurrent use of East Sea and th

Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest memory chipmaker, announced Monday it will build a semiconductor plant in central China as part of its move to diversify production.The company said it will initially inject US$2.3 billion to build the plant in Xian, China. It added that up to $7.0 billion could be poured into the project in the coming years, making the plant Samsung's single largest ov

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A grenade presumed to be from the Korean War was found on a university campus in Seoul, police officials said Sunday. The explosive was found Friday afternoon in one of the flowerbeds at Ewha Womans University, in Sinchon, central Seoul, by a member of the cleaning staff. It did not have a safety pin in it.Police, who arrived on the scene with a bomb squad, determined that it had been deactivated.

Seoul’s southern ward of Seocho, hit hard by heavy rains last week, may be declared a special disaster area, the home administration ministry said Sunday. If the cost of flood and landslide damage exceeds 9.5 billion won ($9 million) in Seocho, the Ministry of Public Administration and Security will approve the designation.The Seocho Ward Office puts the estimated damage at more than 100 million w