SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Yonhap) -- Former Major League Baseball All-Star Park Chan-ho will be able to play in his home country next year.Presidents of the eight current clubs in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) and one expansion team set to join the league in 2013 on Tuesday instituted a rule change to

Women who smoke are more likely to suffer from skin cancer, a study found, reported Science Daily.According to the study, women who have smoked for 20 years or more are twice likely to suffer from the disease. A woman smokes a cigarette in New York (Bloomberg)Study results showed that cigarette

WASHINGTON, Dec 12, 2011 (AFP) - Scientists in the United States said Monday they have developed a vaccine that attacks tumors in mice, abreakthrough they hope will help fight breast, colon, ovarian and pancreatic cancer in humans. (Bloomberg)Although studies on mice often do not translate directly

(AP)TORONTO (AP) _ It appears a female has come between one of Canada's celebrity couples.Toronto's zoo split up a pair of male penguins whose affection for each other drew headlines last month and jokes about ``Brokeback Iceberg.''The zoo said Monday Buddy and Pedro have been officially separated a

SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Yonhap) -- South Koreans are the least sexually active among people in 13 countries surveyed in an international online poll, a global pharmaceutical company said Monday.Eli Lilly and Co.'s Seoul office said Korean couples over 34 have sex an average of 1.04 times a week, citing the

Honey bees do a little dance to communicate with each other that mimics signals in the brain, a finding that may shed light on how Earth's creatures make choices, scientists said Thursday.The decision-making mechanisms in nervous systems and insect societies are strikingly similar," said the study i

ATLANTA (AP) _ In what's being called a landmark study, researchers used gene therapy to successfully treat six patients with severe hemophilia, a blood-clotting disorder.The study was preliminary and involved only six patients, and other promising early attempts to use gene therapy against hemophil

 (Yonhap News)A Chinese captain stabbed two South Korean coast guard officers, killing one and injuring the other on Monday after being stopped on suspicion of illegal fishing in South Korean territory, officials said.According to the Incheon Coast Guard, the incident happened after one of its

SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Yonhap) -- The main opposition Democratic Party (DP) agreed Thursday to end its boycott of parliament and handle next year's budget and other urgent bills before year's end, officials said.DP floor leader Kim Jin-pyo reached the agreement in talks with his ruling Grand National Party

CANTON, Ga. (AP) — A 20-year-old maintenance worker was arrested in the beating death of a 7-year-old north Georgia girl who was abducted and killed at an apartment complex and her body left in a trash bin, authorities said Wednesday.Ryan Brunn, who lived and worked at the apartment complex, w

SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Yonhap) -- Police said Thursday that they have questioned aides to two more conservative lawmakers about a cyber attack that temporarily paralyzed the Web site of the national election watchdog in October.The National Police Agency said it had an overnight interrogation of a former se

SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's central bank froze the key interest rate on Thursday for the sixth straight month in a bid to shield the economy from the impact of growing downside risks from the eurozone debt crisis.Bank of Korea (BOK) Gov. Kim Choong-soo and his fellow policymakers unanimo

The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the country’s second case of iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Thursday.The first was reported Nov. 29, after the patient had died.Authorities said that the disease is not ordinarily transmittable through and assured that the public w

PITTSBURGH (AP) _ Bedbugs aren't just sleeping with you. They're sleeping with each other.Researchers now say that the creepy bugs have a special genetic gift: withstanding incest.It turns out that unlike most creatures, bedbugs are able to inbreed with close relatives and still produce generally he

SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Yonhap) -- Prosecutors said Thursday they have applied for an arrest warrant for a private practice lawyer suspected of bribing a prosecutor in return for her influence.Busan prosecutors, who are handling the case, said they requested the local court there issue the warrant for the 49

Alexei Navalny, one of Russia`s best-known bloggers, chants anti-government slogans during an opposition rally in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Dec. 5, 2011.(AP)MOSCOW (AP) _ Popular anger against Vladimir Putin's ruling party and alleged election fraud have boiled over into a third straight night of prot

CHANGWON, South Gyeongsang ― A petite singer from the Philippines and a duo from Kazakhstan won the grand prizes at the 2011 K-pop World Festival Wednesday, where 10 teams from all over the world performed songs by their favorite Korean idols. Karla Carreon from the Philippines and JAM from Kazakhst

SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Yonhap) -- Income inequality among elderly citizens in South Korea is the third highest in major economies, data showed Thursday, indicating that the country's public pension system remains relatively insufficient to support retirees.The Gini coefficient for those aged 65 and older he

SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Yonhap) -- A court ordered Wednesday that former President Chun Doo-hwan and his deputy pay 100 million won ($88,800) in compensation to a former opposition lawmaker.The Seoul High Court ruled that Chun and Lee Hak-bong, who served as a chief investigator in the martial law command in

Cho Kwang-rae criticizes football governing body’s decision processThe Korea Football Association is in hot water following the sacking of the men’s national team manager. Cho Kwang-rae. The team’s 2-1 loss to Lebanon last month during Asian qualifier for the 2014 World Cup sealed Cho’s fate, the KF