South Korea will send a 383-member team, including 290 athletes, the largest in its history, for the upcoming Summer University Games in China, the Korean Olympic Committee announced on Monday.The 26th World University Games, also known as the Summer Universiade, will be held Aug. 12-23 in Shenzhen.

Children as young as five are receiving treatment for eating disorders, according to data from the British National Health Service.In past three years, 98 children between the age of five and seven were hospitalized for anorexia, while another 99 youngsters between eight and nine visited specialists

MEXICO CITY (AP) _ A former police officer who allegedly admits ordering 1,500 killings during a campaign of terror as a drug gang chieftain along the U.S. border has been captured in northern Mexico, federal officials said Sunday.Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez also is a suspect in last year's slayin

A 39-year-old man was arrested for sexual violence in a series of daybreak attacks on women over the past six months, police said Monday.The offender, only known by his surname Kim, had allegedly attempted to rape a 27 year-old woman near an apartment in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, on July

At the Samut Prakarn Crocodile Farm and Zoo, a 2-and-half-year-old male Chimpanzee named Dodo has been feeding a tiger cub every day for more than a year.At this Thai zoo located in Bangkok, Dodo picked up the habit when trainers wanted to challenge the chimp.The 35-year-old trainer Sirinaj taught D

Chewing food more helps people consume less food and lose weight, a new study has shown.According to researchers from Harbin Medical University in China, those who chewed food 40 times consumed about 12 percent less calories than those who chewed only 15 times.The study is posted on the latest versi

HONG KONG (AFP) -- Thirteen items belonging to the late kung fu legend Bruce Lee, including a 1966 letter he wrote and a fur-lined coat will go under the hammer in a Hong Kong auction next week, a report said Saturday. The sale, which could raise up to HK$880,000 ($112,900), is believed to be the

The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on Monday that it will hold a referendum on Aug. 24 on whether the city should proceed with its free school lunch program.Seoul citizens will be asked to choose between providing free lunches to selected students or to all students in the vote requested by

Three Japanese lawmakers arrived at a South Korean airport on Monday, defying Seoul's repeated warnings that their entry will be banned due to their attempt to reassert Tokyo's claim to the South Korean islets of Dokdo.Yoshitaka Shindo, Domomi Inada and Masahisa Sato, all from Japan's conservative L

Electronic microchips added to hotel towels to ban snatchingAn American linen company has introduced new towels and robes equipped with electronic chips for hotels in order to prevent guests from taking them home.Linen Tracking Technology, a firm based in Miami, launched the new products attached with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags under association with Fluensee, another technology fi