A team of Belgian scientists claimed they found out the reason why emotionally stressed people stretch out for sweet junk food.Comfort from absorbing fatty foods is not just derived from the pleasant experience of eating but also through gut-brain signaling, said scientists from University of Leuven

A Japanese woman was reportedly arrested for threatening her boss by sending hate messages, Yomiuri Shimbun reported Sunday.The blackmailer Yamazaki Rinako, 21, had allegedly sent the word “to kill” about 10,000 times to her employer’s cellphone.She had sent 22 messages, which included the word 517

Figure skater Kim Yu-na ranked eighth among the world's highest-paid female athletes, according to a U.S. business magazine Tuesday. Kim Yuna (Yonhap News) Forbes magazine listed Kim a

Pastor Ha Yong-jo of Onnuri Church, one of the top Christian leaders in Korea, died Tuesday morning after suffering a serious brain hemorrhage following a stroke. He was 65.Ha had an emergency surgery at Severance Hospital in Seoul on Monday, but did not regain consciousness, reports said. Ha had be

Although the comics publisher DC Comics is now co-headed by Jim Lee, an Asian-American, for many decades American comics regularly featured racist depictions of Asians as inscrutable masterminds and devious coolies, among other stereotypes.A new exhibition at New York University (NYU), titled “Marve

What a nightmare! Whenever you see photographs of Thailand’s White Temple, which lies on the fringes of that tri-nation junction, the Golden Triangle, it looks luminously beautiful like the Taj Mahal.Now, however, the skies above the White Temple or Wat Rong Khun are dowdy and cloudy, and the landma

Children as young as five are receiving treatment for eating disorders, according to data from the British National Health Service.In past three years, 98 children between the age of five and seven were hospitalized for anorexia, while another 99 youngsters between eight and nine visited specialists

MEXICO CITY (AP) _ A former police officer who allegedly admits ordering 1,500 killings during a campaign of terror as a drug gang chieftain along the U.S. border has been captured in northern Mexico, federal officials said Sunday.Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez also is a suspect in last year's slayin

HONG KONG, July 29, 2011 (AFP) - Apple and Samsung have overtaken long-time leader Nokia for the top two spots in the global smartphone market, a report said Friday, underscoring the Finnish handset maker's ongoing struggles.US-based research firm Strategy Analytics said the US and Korean smartphone makers outpaced Nokia in the second quarter, with the sector posting record quarterly shipments of

SEOUL, July 29, 2011 (AFP) - South Korean prosecutors have arrested five people on charges of spying for North Korea, a report said Friday.The five, led by an information technology company chief identified only as Kim, were charged with violating South Korea's security law, Yonhap news agency said.They were accused of setting up an underground communist group on the instructions of an espionage u

LUGANSK, Ukraine, July 29, 2011 (AFP) - Eighteen miners died and another 20 were missing Friday in two separate accidents at coal mines in the east of Ukraine, an industrial region notorious for its mining safety record.At least 16 miners were killed instantly as a result of an explosion at the Sukhodolskaya-Vostochnaya coal mine in the eastern Lugansk region early Friday, the emergencies ministry

HONG KONG, July 29 (Yonhap) -- China will increase compensation for each victim of the recent high-speed train crash in an attempt to soothe the pain of the bereaved families, a state-run news outlet said Friday.The train crash took place late Saturday near the city of Wenzhou in East Zhejiang Province when a high-speed train rear-ended another train, leaving at least 40 people dead and 192 others

SEOUL, July 29 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Myung-bak paid his respect Friday to a young conscripted policeman who was killed while trying to rescue a citizen from a stream swollen in this week's torrential rains.Lee offered flowers and a moment of silence before the funeral photo of the 21-year-old policeman, Cho Min-soo, who was found dead Thursday after being swept away in flood waters in Dongduch

SEOUL, July 29 (Yonhap) -- A Seoul court on Friday ordered SK Broadband Co., a high-speed Internet service provider, to pay a combined 400 million won (US$379,686) in compensation to its customers whose personal information was leaked by the company.About 2,500 SK Broadband customers filed class-action suits between 2008 and 2010, claiming the Internet service firm, formerly called Hanaro Telecom,

SEOUL, July 29 (Yonhap) -- Lee Kun-hee, chairman of Samsung Electronics Co., emphasized the importance of software technologies, a talented workforce and patents in a speech to Samsung's executives, the electronics giant said Friday. His remarks came after the consumer electronics giant reported a slump in its second-quarter profit as consumer spending in the advanced economies is weighed down by

Popular Korean actor Yoo Seung-ho was injured in a major car accident Friday in Mungyeong, North Gyeongsang Province while heading to a filming set for the television show he stars in, according to reports.The car that carried Yoo lost control on a highway due to heavy rainfall. After the accident, Yoo was transferred to a hospital in Seoul and was reportedly suffering from fractures around his ey

An American nursing assistant had been charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault of a 93-year-old patient suffering from dementia.Robert Phelan Jr., 56, was allegedly witnessed by another staff member while having inappropriate contact with the victim at Lexington Health Care, Illinois. Phelan had been working at the facility for less than two weeks.Aggravated criminal sexual assault is refe

Fans dedicated a Facebook group to a local celebrity to make him the town’s official Olympic torch bearer, according to reports.　 Gordon Roberts from Bournemouth, England, is getting the support of 4,500 people who plan to nominate him as their “inspirational member of the community.”With his trademark white beard, scarf and jacket, the 82-year-old is known as a “big part of the community and alwa

SK Communications Co. said on Thursday that personal information of its 35 million online users has been hacked, marking South Korea’s worst online security breach and sparking fears that the leak could lead to massive online and voice scams in coming weeks. “The company has confirmed that a leak of customers’ information has taken place due to hacking on July 26,” SK said in a statement. “The spe

LONDON (AP) _ Before he carried out the attacks that killed scores of people in Norway, Anders Behring Breivik wrote of his allegiance to the Knights Templar, which he described as a secret society created to carry out a crusade against Islam in Europe.While law enforcement agencies said they had never heard of the group, a man named Paul Ray, who writes an anti-Muslim blog called ``Lionheart,'' h