Researchers in New Zealand say they have genetically engineered a cow to produce milk free of a protein that causes allergies in children.The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, used a technique known as RNA interference to block the production of the protein beta-lactoglobulin, which is produced in cows but not found in human milk.Study co-author Dr. Stefan Wagner

South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. retained the top spot in the global mobile phone market in August on the back of steady sales of its products worldwide, industry data showed Friday.According to the data released by Hong Kong-based Counterpoint Technology Market Research, Samsung topped the world's handset market last month with a market share of 29 percent.The research firm attribu

South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan issued an unusually sharp criticism Thursday of Japan's territorial claims and refusal to offer a sincere apology for its wartime atrocities.On a visit to New York for the U.N. General Assembly's annual meeting, the minister made clear there will be "no compromise" on the matters unless Tokyo changes its attitude."Our position has always been firm and th

A North Korean nuclear envoy said Friday she held an informal meeting with her U.S. counterparts on the sidelines of a security conference here, where long-standing tensions over the North's nuclear ambition top the agenda.Choe Son-hui, the North's deputy chief envoy to the six-party talks, told Yonhap News Agency she met with U.S. representatives on Thursday evening during the two-day Northeast A

Massachusetts Gov. Patrick plans to appeal a ruling ordering a state-funded sex change for a convicted murderer, sources told WCVB-TV, Boston, Wednesday.Chief Judge Mark L. Wolf ruled Sept. 4 surgery is the "only adequate treatment" for Michelle Kosilek's gender identity disorder.Kosilek, 63, previously known as Robert, was convicted of his wife's 1990 murder and has attempted to castrate and kill

Kwak No-hyun, superintendent of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education. (Yonhap News)The Supreme Court on Thursday confirmed a one-year prison term for Seoul's education chief Kwak No-hyun for bribery charges, stripping the disgraced liberal educator of his post.The 58-year-old superintendent of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education was indicted last year on charges of paying 200 million

Police said Thursday they have assigned a security detail of about 10 officers to independent presidential candidate Ahn Cheol-soo, the same level of protection given to candidates of major political parties.The National Police Agency said the bodyguards were sent on assignment Wednesday after two weeks of specialized training and will guard the candidate around the clock until the Dec. 19 polls.T

Kim Mi-hyun, a South Korean golfer with eight LPGA Tour wins, will retire from the sport after an LPGA stop on her home soil next month, officials said Thursday.Organizers of the LPGA KEB•HanaBank Championship, set for Oct. 19 to 21 in South Korea, said Kim had informed them of her plan to call it quits after the 54-hole tournament."She will be a special invitee for our tournament," an organizing

The United States government has formally notified Congress of a plan to seek the sale of 36 advanced attack helicopters to South Korea.A deal under the Foreign Military Sales program, if sealed, would be worth up to US$3.6 billion.In two separate notifications to Congress, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency at the Pentagon provided details of proposed sales of Boeing's AH-64D Apache Longbow

U.S. actress Kristen Stewart and British actor Robert Pattinson are living together again after a two-month separation, a source told UsMagazine.com.The couple of three years parted in July after Stewart, 22, publicly admitted she cheated on Pattinson, 26, with her married 41-year-old "Snow White and the Huntsman" director, Rupert Sanders."They are living together and have reconciled," an insider

Most U.S. women say they use contraceptives because they could not afford to take care of a baby at that time, researchers say.Jennifer Frost and Laura Lindberg of the Guttmacher Institute in New York said few U.S. studies ask women why they use contraception and what benefits they expect or have achieved from its use.Frost and Lindberg surveyed 2,094 U.S. women receiving services at 22 family pla

(123rf)The U.K. police said the location of a math teacher and his female student is still a mystery.Megan Stammers, 16, had been in a relationship with her married teacher, Jeremy Forrest, for the last seven months. News reports disclosed that Megan also has an extra-curricular tutorial at another school where Forrest taught.Megan’s friends and her school were fully aware what was going on with t

South Korea's public sector should double up its efforts to improve its business health by increasing management transparency and keeping debt under control, the finance minister said Wednesday."We hope that the public sector institutions will raise the trust of people by enhancing their transparency and push for systematic management, including debt analysis," Bahk Jae-wan told a crisis managemen

One of two new tunnels at North Korea's nuclear test site was damaged by a recent typhoon and heavy rains, but appears to have only minor damage, a Seoul government source said Wednesday.North Korea has built two new tunnels at Punggye-ri in the northeastern province of North Hamgyong, where the North conducted atomic tests in 2006 and 2009, in a possible preparation for its third underground nucl

South Korea's top central banker said Wednesday that the eurozone economy is not likely to improve until next year as the global economic outlook remains subdued."A set of economic data coming from the eurozone has given mixed signals, repeatedly producing positive and negative news together," Bank of Korea (BOK) Gov. Kim Choong-soo said in a monthly meeting with economists."The eurozone economy i

Australian airline Qantas confirmed a crocodile escaped from its cage during a flight and was found roaming the baggage compartment.The airline said the croc got out of its cage during a Brisbane to Melbourne flight last week and was found roaming the baggage compartment by a handler, The Daily Telegraph, Sydney, reported Monday.The reptile was returned to its cage without incident, Qantas said.Th

A British court sentenced a man to three and a half years in prison for molesting a 10-year-old girl who caught the act on her Nintendo DS, officials said.John Fisher, 46, admitted touching the girl inappropriately in January 2010 and November 2011, after the photographic evidence was presented, Britain's The Daily Mirror reported Wednesday.Detective Constable Annabelle Bunn, the Suffolk police of

A former U.S. Air Force basic training instructor at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland pleaded guilty Monday to having sex with a trainee.Staff Sgt. Jason Manko admitted to wrongfully seeking a relationship with a technical trainee and wrongfully engaging in sexual activity with the woman, base spokesman Brent Boller said.Manko is the fifth instructor to face trial in a scandal at the Texas air base

A mid-air brawl between two passengers on a flight from Zurich to Beijing was caused by an altercation over the position of a passenger's seat back, a Swiss-German tabloid reported on Tuesday.A flier aboard Sunday's Swiss airline flight - a 57-year-old Chinese man who was reportedly tipsy - felt disturbed during his meal when the passenger in front of him reclined his chair, the newspaper Blick re