Business majors at KAIST attend a meeting amid controversy over competition at the college in Daejeon on Tuesday. (The Korea Herald)Professor rubbishes reports of out of control competition at top science collegeA professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has rubbished claims that competition at the college is out of control, revealing that the then-dean of academic affairs s

(Yonhap News)North Korea said Thursday it has detained a U.S. citizen since last November and plans to indict him, as he admitted his "crime," the North's media reported.North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said that the American, named Jun Young-su, was arrested in November last year and has since been investigated by officials for committing a crime against the North after en

(MCT)DUSHANBE, Tajikistan (AP) _ Tajik religious authorities say divorce by text message will soon be banned, as they seek to stamp out the practice in the mainly Muslim Central Asian nation.State religious affairs committee head Abdurakhim Kholikov said Monday that sending SMSs with the ``triple talaq,'' a Muslim ritual whereby a husband can end a marriage by reciting the term for divorce three t

Manchester United's Ji-Sung Park celebrates after scoring a goal against Chelsea during their Champions League quarterfinal second leg soccer match at Old Trafford, Manchester, England, Tuesday April 12, 2011. (AP-Yonhap News)MANCHESTER, England (AP) _ Manchester United reached the Champions League semifinals for the fourth time in five years and effectively ended a miserable season for Chelsea by

WASHINGTON (Yonhap) -- Myanmar has not yet developed the technology for nuclear weapons, but has a chance of succeeding with help from North Korea, a scholar said Monday.Speaking to a seminar at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Robert Kelly, a nuclear engineer, said Myanmar has several factories capable of enriching uranium that were built with German technol

West Gate Bridge in Melbourne (AP)MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) _ A man who killed his 4-year-old daughter by throwing her off a bridge in Australia's second-largest city as her horrified brothers watched was sentenced Monday to life in prison.Arthur Freeman, 37, stood motionless as Victorian Supreme Court Justice Paul Coghlan handed down the punishment, which came despite Freeman's argument that he w

A man drags a sand bag across a street damaged by liquefaction in the March 11 earthquake in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo, Wednesday, April 6, 2011. (AP-Yonhap News)TOKYO, (AFP) - A strong offshore earthquake rocked Tokyo on Tuesday, swaying buildings in the Japanese capital and stopping subway services.The US Geological Agency put the magnitude at 6.4, at a depth of 13.1 kilometers (8.1

South Korean golfer Choi Kyoung-ju (Yonhap News)AUGUSTA, United States, (Yonhap) -- South Korean golfer Choi Kyoung-ju tied for eighth place at 8-under at the Masters Tournament here Sunday, finishing as the top South Korean at the season's first major championship.In the final round, Choi mixed three birdies with three bogeys to shoot an even-par 72 for the day and end at 8-under for the tourname

Sandra Torres de Colom (AP)GUATEMALA CITY (AP) _ A Guatemalan judge on Friday dismissed a suit seeking to block divorce proceedings by the wife of President Alvaro Colom, clearing the way for her to run for the presidency.A university group and others had sought to block the divorce because it would allow Colom's wife to get around a constitutional ban on a president's extended family from running

(Kunio Shiga listens to a battery-powered radio in the living room of his home in Minami Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, inside the deserted evacuation zone established for the 20 kilometer radius around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex in northeastern Japan Friday, April 8, 2011. The 75-year-old man was stranded alone in his farmhouse ever since Japan's monstrous tsunami struck nearly a month a

A rebel fighter riding on the back of a pickup truck mounted with a multiple rocket launcher, gestures as he flees the town during an advance by pro-Gadhafi forces, on the outskirts of Ajdabiya, Libya, Saturday, April 9, 2011. (AP-Yonhap News)North Korea has ordered its people in Libya not to return home, apparently out of fear that they will spread news of the anti-government uprisings in the Afr

Police search in the brush by the side of the road on Cedar Beach, near Babylon, N.Y., Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010.(AP)NEW YORK (AFP) - Three bodies have been found on a beach in Long Island, east of New York City, authorities said Monday, bringing to eight the number of corpses found in the same area since December.Local media hyped the idea of a serial killer, but police said they had no suspect at t

The bride Zhu Jie and her groom Qin Xueshi wave to visitors in a pumpkin carriage at their wedding held at the Discoveryland Theme Park in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning province, April 1, 2011. (Xinhua News)A 23-year-old "pearl girl", whose height is only 1.22 meters, tied the knot with her boyfriend, who is of a similar size, in the Discoveryland Theme Park in northeastern China's port city

(MCT)The immediate task might be coaxing a toddler into one more swallow of nasty-tasting medication. Longer term, there are tough choices to be made about telling that child, and the surrounding community, why those daily doses may be needed for the rest of his or her life.While most adoptions present challenges, there is a distinctive set of them facing parents who decide to adopt children livin

Models promote Makgeolli, Korean rice wine. (Yonhap News)South Korea's production of makgeolli rice wine fell for the first time in 32 months in February amid slowing demand from strong consumption over past few years, data showed Monday.Makgeolli production came to 24,395 kiloliters in February, down 6.8 percent from the same month a year earlier, according to the data provided by Statistics Kore

A body is brought to the surface at Monkey William Mine about 200 km from Harare. Hundreds of skeletons found at one of the mine shafts have brought a macabre thrust to election campaigning in Zimbabwe, but the putrefying stench of some corpses still with skin, hair and dripping body fluids has raised doubts over claims white colonial era troops committed the massacres more than thirty years ago.

The company logo is displayed is at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.(AP-Yonhap News)BRUSSELS (AP) _ Microsoft Corp. escalated its attack on Google Inc. by complaining to European regulators Thursday that its fiercest rival is an Internet bully that abuses its dominance of online search and advertising.The allegations against Google crystallize the piecemeal gripes that Microsoft has be

Japan was expected to repeat its territorial claims over South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo in its annual diplomatic report, sources said Friday, just two days after Tokyo approved a series of textbooks claiming the islets as its territory.Japan's Cabinet planned to approve the "Diplomatic Blue Paper" report for 2011 that was expected to carry the same territorial descriptions of Dokdo as i

Government officials visit a local market to check food prices. (Yonhap News)South Korea's consumer prices grew at the fastest pace in 29 months in March, putting a crimp in the government's efforts to tame soaring inflation, a report showed Friday.According to the report by Statistics Korea, the country's consumer price index jumped 4.7 percent last month from a year earlier, marking the fastest

(Yonhap News)Japan is considering pouring concrete into its crippled Fukushima atomic plant as the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog agency warned that a potential uncontrolled chain reaction could cause further radiation leaks.Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano yesterday ruled out the possibility that the two undamaged reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s six-unit Dai-Ichi plant would be salvag