U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during a press conference in the White House, Washington, on Friday. AFPU.S. President Barack Obama suspended the threat of deportation against hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants Friday, delighting crucial Hispanic voters ahead of November's election."These are young people who study in our schools, they play in our neighborhoods... they are Americ

In an unusual incident, U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday slapped down a heckling journalist who was furious over his move to stop deporting young illegal immigrants.The reporter, Neil Munro, of the conservative Daily Caller website, broke into Obama's remarks as he outlined plans to defer deportations of illegal immigrants between the ages of 16 to 30 brought to America by their parents."Excu

TAEBAEK (Yonhap News) -- A gas explosion at a coal mine has killed two people and injured six others, police said Saturday.   The blast occurred at around 8 p.m. on Friday when nine miners were working at a site about 970 meters deep or 3,400 meters from the entrance, police officer Chang

   Los Angeles (Yonhap) -- Hana Financial Group Inc.,South Korea's No. 4 banking group, said Saturday that it is pushingto acquire a Korean American commercial bank in the United Statesas part of its bid to accelerate expansion abroad.   The move comes as Hana Financial Group see

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign rally, Friday, Feb. 3, 2012, in Elko, Nev. AP-Yonhap LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Mitt Romney, heavily favored to win Nevada's presidential caucuses Saturday, focused on the state's unemployment rate _ which is w

BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- The head of memory chip maker Micron, long known for taking risks in stunt piloting, died Friday when a small experimental plane he was piloting steeply banked, stalled and crashed near an Idaho runway.   Steve Appleton, who survived a similar crash eight years ag

BEIRUT (AP) -- In a barrage of mortar shells, Syrian forces killed 200 people and wounded hundreds in Homs in an offensive that appears to be the bloodiest episode in the nearly 11-month-old uprising, activists said Saturday.   The assault in Homs, which has been one of the main flash

 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Federal prosecutors dropped their investigation of Lance Armstrong on Friday, ending a nearly two-year effort aimed at determining whether the seven-time Tour de France winner and his teammates participated in a doping program.Armstrong has steadfastly denied he doped durin

Samsung Lions players celebrate at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on Monday after they clenched the 2011 Korean Series title, beating the SK Wyverns 1-0. Yonhap NewsThe Samsung Lions are the champion of Korean professional baseball in 2011.The Lions beat the SK Wyverns 1-0 in the Korean Series Monday at Se

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The St. Louis Cardinals won a remarkable World Series they weren't even supposed to reach, beating the Texas Rangers 6-2 in Game 7 on Friday night with another key hit by hometown star David Freese and six gutsy innings from Chris Carpenter.A day after an epic Game 6 that saw them

Samsung Electronics Co., Korea's electronics giant, has been ordered to compensate a local designer for illegally using the designer's flower pattern creation on its refrigerator models, court records showed Saturday.   The Seoul Western District Court recently delivered the order for the

Samsung Electronics Co., Korea's electronics giant, has been ordered to compensate a local designer for illegally using the designer's flower pattern creation on its refrigerator models, court records showed Saturday.The Seoul Western District Court recently delivered the order for the electronics m

BOGOTA (AFP) ― The Colombian Navy has rescued four Koreans from their catamaran after it suffered a breakdown while sailing across the Caribbean, a Colombian official said Saturday. “We responded to a call from the Korean embassy, which alerted us to a boat with four of its nationals aboard,” Comman

Local by-elections hotly contested in prelude to major elections next yearThe Seoul mayoral contest, where independent Park Won-soon and the ruling Grand National Party’s Na Kyung-won are running a tight race, is by far the most intense and important in Wednesday’s by-elections. But several provinci

Court says more evidence needed to arrest Shin,  alleged bribe-giverProsecutors’ investigation into the alleged corruption of one of President Lee Myung-bak’s confidants faced a setback Thursday after a local court rejected their request for arrest warrants for two main figures in the scandal.

Joining in on the popular outrage directed at credit card firms, bar and karaoke owners demanded Wednesday that they benefit from the same reduction in credit card commission rates as restaurant owners. “People in the nightspot business are discriminated against by credit card companies, which exclu

Korean Air pilot accused of posting pro-Pyongyang messages onlineAbout 40 internet users, including a Korean Air pilot, are under investigation for their postings online that praise North Korea, which law enforcement authorities in the South view as a breach of the national security law. According t

Tens of thousands of restaurant owners rally at Olympic Stadium in Seoul on Tuesday, demanding credit card firms lower commission rates for restaurants. (Park Hae-mook/The Korea Herald)In a rare collective action, owners of restaurants across the country rallied in Seoul on Tuesday, demanding a cut

A third umbrella labor group is to launch next month, with nearly 70 trade unions and 30,000 workers as its members, a union activist leading the move said Tuesday. “We plan to hold an inaugural meeting early next month and submit the necessary documents to register with the Labor Ministry,” said Je

Hwang Woo-suk, a veterinary scientist who doctored his research data claiming to have cloned the world’s first human embryonic stem cells, claimed Sunday that he had become the first to succeed in cloning endangered coyotes. “We produced the cloned coyotes by extracting adult skin cells from coyotes