Korea’s ardent, decade-long pursuit of the Winter Olympic Games was rewarded when Jacques Rogge uttered one long-awaited word, “PyeongChang.” Its selection as the venue of the 2018 Winter Games in the South African city of Durban on Wednesday sent not just Korean delegates but all Korean citizens glued to the TV back home into ecstasy.PyeongChang’s win over Munich of Germany and Annecy of France w

Forty years ago this month, a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine revealed that sleep-deprived resident physicians reading electrocardiograms made twice as many errors as their rested counterparts. Back then, in 1971, there were no limits on the hours that medical residents could be scheduled to work. Thirty-six-hour on-call shifts were the norm.Under new rules that take effect

Self-defense against threats to national security and individual citizens is a core right and duty of all nation-states. No one seriously disagrees. And yet this week, the Mediterranean Sea will once again be the site of a dangerous attack on this basic right.Activists from around the world, seeking to draw attention to the plight of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, plan to launch a flotilla of shi

More than 255,000 women have served in the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan. Twenty-one percent of the 2011 graduating class of sailors at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis were women; of the Marines, 17 percent. The Air Force Academy and West Point graduated similar percentages: nearly 20 percent and more than 16 percent, respectively. All told, women account for nearly 15 percent of activ

BEIJING (AP) ― Chinese officials say a coal mine fire has trapped at least 36 people underground in the country’s east. It’s the second accident in a week in China’s notoriously dangerous coal industry.The State Administration of Work Safety said Thursday that an air compressor 225 meters underground caught fire Wednesday evening.It says an initial investigation found 36 miners are trapped and a r

LG Electronics Inc., the world's third-largest maker of mobile phones, said Thursday that it expects to sell 24 million smartphones this year, 20 percent fewer than its earlier target, as competition in the lucrative handset market intensifies.The reduced sales target may complicate LG's efforts to revive its money-losing mobile business, which is expected to report a fifth straight quarterly loss

Some people believe the world literally revolves around them. It’s a belief born not of selfishness but faith.A small group of conservative Roman Catholics is pointing to a dozen biblical verses and the Church’s original teaching as proof that the Earth is the center of the universe, the view that prompted Galileo Galilei’s clash with the Church four centuries ago.The relatively obscure movement h

A group of doctors here have found a gene that could detect the possible recurrence of breast cancer. If cancer treatment is effective, recurrence remains a major threat. The finding could contribute to improved treatment for breast cancer, Prof. Kim Lee-su of Hallym University said.When there are cancer cells, and when teh cancer spreads to the lymph nodes, normal cells’ production of αB-Crystall

Chung Ang University Hospital is looking for candidates for a clinical test of its asthma treatment. Those applying should have been diagnosed with asthma before they reached 40 years of age. They should be either non-smokers or those who have quit mild smoking (less than 10 packets of cigarettes a year) for more than a year. The candidates must be taking steroids.Those selected will be able to ge