Samsung Group, South Korea's largest conglomerate, said Tuesday it plans to spend a record 47.8 trillion won ($41.6 billion) on investment this year despite growing economic uncertainty. A man walks behind a Samsung Electronics Co. logo at the company's flagship store in Seoul, South Korea, on Thurs

SYDNEY, Jan 16, 2012 (AFP) - Researchers in Australia on Monday called for health warnings on caffeine-loaded energy drinks following a spike in the number of people reporting medical problems after drinking them.Health professionals from the University of Sydney's Medical School and the New South W

NEW YORK, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Madonna says fellow U.S. pop singer Lady Gaga ripped off her 1989 hit "Express Yourself" to create what Lady Gaga calls the gay anthem "Born This Way."When Lady Gaga performed the song at the MTV Video Music Awards in August, there were already extensive rumblings concerni

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry on Sunday accused the Obama administration of "over-the-top rhetoric" and "disdain for the military" in its condemnation of a video that purportedly shows four Marines urinating on corpses in Afghanistan.Perry's comments put him at o

OSLO, Jan 13, 2012 (AFP) - An Oslo court on Friday ordered a new psychiatric evaluation of Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in twin attacks in July, after an earlier and widely contested test found him criminally insane. "Due to the gravity of this case, the criminal responsibility

SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Yonhap) -- Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea's largest carmaker, said Friday that it is targeting to sell 700,000 vehicles in the domestic market this year, up 2.4 percent from 2011.Hyundai Motor, which sold 683,570 units locally last year, said competition in the domestic market is exp

HWASEONG, South Korea, Jan. 13 (Yonhap) -- A 19-year-old marine corporal surnamed Kim was sentenced to death by a military court on Friday for killing four fellow marines in a shooting rampage on Ganghwa Island, west of Seoul, last July.A marine private found guilty of assisting Kim in the July 4 ra

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A frog that can perch on the tip of your pinkie with room to spare has been claimed as the world's smallest vertebrate species, out-tinying a fish that got the title in 2006. But the discoverer of another weensy fish disputes the claim.A tempest in a thimble, some might say.

 WASHINGTON (AP) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday condemned a video depicting what appears to be four U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters.Afghan President Hamid Karzai adjusts his coat, as he speaks during a gathering to mark the 40th death anniversary of

LONDON (AP) — A new study of fertility treatment found that women who get three or more embryos have no better odds of having a baby than those who get just two embryos.They also have a greater chance of risky multiple births."Women who have gone through infertility treatment want the best cha

NEW DELHI, Jan 12, 2012 (AFP) - India on Thursday said it was trying to track down those responsible for a video of naked tribal women dancing for tourists in the Andaman islands, where filming of aborigines is banned.British newspaper The Observer at the weekend released the undated video showing J

SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Yonhap) -- South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan said Thursday his government could launch formal talks with China on forging a bilateral free trade agreement, possibly in the first half of 2012, after finishing domestic procedures to start the talks within "a few months."Presi

SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Yonhap) -- The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court's judgment and cleared a former chief of the state-run Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) of breach-of-trust charges.The final ruling cleared Jung Yun-joo of charges he caused nearly 190 billion won (US$164 million) in losse

WASHINGTON (AP) _ The U.S. Marine Corps said Wednesday it is investigating a video depicting what appears to be four Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters.In a statement, the Marine Corps said it has not verified the origin or authenticity of the YouTube video. It also said the action

Drinking alcohol helps to release endorphins in areas of the brain that produce feelings of pleasure and reward, a study found.According to the study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, endorphin release in the nucleus accumbens and orbitofrontal cortex in response to

Australia has the tightest security controls among nations with nuclear material while North Korea poses the world's greatest risks, a new index by experts said Wednesday.The Nuclear Threat Initiative, in a project led by former US senator Sam Nunn and the Economist Intelligence Unit, aims to draw a

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) _ Two assailants on a motorcycle attached magnetic bombs on Wednesday to the car of an Iranian university professor working at a key nuclear facility, killing him and wounding two others, a semiofficial news agency reported.The attack in Tehran strongly resembles earlier killings o

WASHINGTON (AP) _ A group of scientists that tracks the likelihood of a global cataclysm says the world is moving closer to doomsday.The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced Tuesday that it has moved its ``Doomsday Clock'' to five minutes to midnight.The group says inadequate progress on stop

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire, Jan 10, 2012 (AFP) - White House hopeful Mitt Romney has won the state of New Hampshire in the second Republican presidential voting contest, US media projections showed Tuesday. Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney greets voters outside a polling station at Webster

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Jan. 11 (Yonhap) -- Three crew members of a South Korean fishing boat went missing overboard and three others were injured after the ship caught fire in Antarctic waters early Wednesday, rescue officials said.The 51-meter-long vessel Jeong-woo 2, which had been fishing in the