(MCT)A Russian woman said she kept a frozen alien corpse in her fridge for two years and unveiled five pictures of it to prove its existence.Daily Mail reported that Marta Yegorovnam in the western city of Petrozavodsk said that two men turned up at her home a few days ago and confiscated the c

The 28-year-old German is the designer of an award-winning new textile made entirely from milk that's environmentally friendly as well as soothing to people with skin allergies. Called “Qmilch,” it drapes and folds like silk, but can be washed and dried like cotton.  In this photo taken Tuesday

GENEVA (AP) — The Sun-Drop Diamond of South Africa, a giant pear-shaped yellow gem weighing 110.3 carats, has sold for more than $10.9 million at auction Tuesday, beating previous records for a jewel of its type.Including commission the unidentified telephone bidder paid almost $12.4 million f

 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A long-lost version of the Air Force One recordings made in the immediate aftermath of President John F. Kennedy's assassination, with more than 30 minutes of additional material not in the official version in the government's archives, has been found and is for sale.

The Thai ambassador to Korea plans to take the Seoul hospital where his wife died to court both here and in Thailand, embassy officials said Tuesday. Ambassador Chaiyong Satjipanon has filed a criminal complaint with the Korean police accusing Soonchunhyang University Hospital of medical malpractice and a lack of professionalism leading to the death of his wife Thitinart Satjipanon. He intends to pursue similar proceedings in Bangkok. He claims that staff negligence at the hospital’s internation

Decision to donate wealth interpreted as preliminary step to enter politicsEntrepreneur-turned-professor Ahn Cheol-soo is back into the political limelight after he unveiled his plan on Monday to donate a large portion of his wealth to society.Although he insisted that it has long been his plan to fulfill his social responsibility as part of the privileged upper echelon, the decision was construed as another dramatic move to raise his political profile ahead of next year’s presidential election.

President tells opposition Seoul will ask U.S. to revise disputed FTA clause if Assembly passes bill President Lee Myung-bak offered Tuesday to open a new round of negotiations with the U.S. on a set of controversial clauses in the Korea-U.S. free trade agreement, once the parliament ratifies the treaty. Lee made the proposal to Rep. Sohn Hak-kyu, chairman of the main opposition Democratic Party, during a meeting with party leaders at the National Assembly. “The president said he would make a re

The new top U.S. envoy to South Korea, Sung Kim, paid his first visit to Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan on Tuesday after taking office.The first Korean-born U.S. ambassador to Seoul expressed anticipation for the passage of the Korea-U.S. free trade agreement at the National Assembly.“There’s great anticipation on passage of the FTA,” the ambassador said in response to the foreign minister’s comments that Lee was at the National Assembly to seek parliamentary approval of the agreement. The caree

WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) ― A teary old Korean man appealed Monday to legislators from around the world for help in his desperate efforts to meet his wife and two daughters who he hopes are alive in North Korea.“I believe they are alive. Otherwise, I don’t have a reason to live,” Oh Kil-nam, a 69-year-old retired economist, said at an international forum held on Capitol Hill.He was testifying at the eighth general meeting of the International Parliamentarians’ Coalition for North Korean Refugees