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Study looks into personality factors affecting infidelity

ScienceJul 26, 2011

Men with sexual performance anxiety are more likely to cheat on their partners, a new study on the factors that predict infidelity found.Men who are risk-takers or easily sexually aroused are also more likely to wander. For women, relationship factors seem to be most important factor, according to the research by U.S. and Canadian scientists.Maria Shriver (left) and Arnold Schwarzenegger smile tog
Senior N. Korean diplomat heads to U.S. for rare talks

North KoreaJul 26, 2011

A senior North Korean diplomat headed to the United States on Tuesday for rare talks with U.S. officials, a diplomatic source in Seoul said, amid cautious hopes for the resumption of stalled six-party talks on ending the North's nuclear programs. Kim Kye-gwan, the North's first vice foreign minister and one of the key strategists in Pyongyang's nuclear talks with Washington, left Beijing on Tuesda
Hyun Bin talks about life as a marine

TelevisionJul 26, 2011

Korean heartthrob Hyun Bin has contributed to a book on his daily life in the marines, according to reports.In the book titled “I am a Marine,” Hyun is one of the eight writers who portrayed their lives as marines and talked about how their duties have changed them. The photo shows marine Hyun Bin preparing for military training.(Yes24 via Yonhap)The book is drawing public attention, particularly
No gimmick: Park a core player for United

SoccerJul 26, 2011

CHICAGO (AP) _ To some, Park Ji-sung seemed to be nothing more than a human marketing ploy when he arrived at Manchester United in 2005.Fans figured the English Premier League team simply wanted to raise its profile and sell more merchandise in Asia, and adding a South Korean player seemed to be the easiest path for the world's most popular club to reach an even broader audience.So much for that:
Woman gets 1-year term for murdering her new-born baby

Social affairsJul 26, 2011

A woman was sentenced to one year in prison on Tuesday for suffocating her unwanted baby right after birth. The 26-year-old, whose name was not released, delivered a baby boy at a toilet in her factory in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province in February. Soon after the birth, the woman stuffed toilet paper into his mouth.The accused “actively murdered the infant,” a judge at Gwangju District Court said.“The
Obama appeals for debt-limit compromise

World BusinessJul 26, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Monday night criticized a newly minted Republican plan to avert an unprecedented government default and said congressional leaders must produce a compromise that can reach his desk before the Aug. 2 deadline.“The American people may have voted for divided government, but they didn't vote for a dysfunctional government,” the president said in a hastily a
Norway gunman should have killed himself instead: father

World NewsJul 26, 2011

OSLO, July 25, 2011 (AFP) - Anders Behring Breivik, who admitted carrying out last week's twin attacks in Norway, should have committed suicide instead of killing 76 people, his estranged father told TV2 in an interview shown Monday."I think that ultimately he should have taken his own life rather than kill so many people," Jens Breivik said in the interview recorded in Cournanel in the south of F
S. Korea to hike electricity prices by 4.9 pct next month

Jul 26, 2011

South Korea will raise electricity prices by 4.9 percent starting next month as part of its efforts to reflect rising power production costs, the commerce ministry said Tuesday.Electricity bills for household consumption will grow 2 percent from August, while those for commercial and industrial use will increase 4.1 percent and 6.1 percent, respectively, according to the Ministry of Knowledge Econ
Sperm bank launches online catalogue of donor’s characteristics, appearance

ScienceJul 26, 2011

The London Sperm Bank has established an Internet database of sperm donors. It provides descriptions of the personality, hobbies and fashion sense of donors, the Telegraph reported.The online catalogue includes the motivations of male donors, followed by the impressions of staff as to what the donors are like.In the brochure, one is described by a member of staff as “softly spoken, introspective,
Woman stabbed to death over noisy party

Jul 26, 2011

A British man irritated by noise from a late night party allegedly stabbed a female guest to death and injured a male attendee.Heather Dyer, 22 years old, was declared dead at the scene on Saturday 2:30 a.m. (local time) after being stabbed in the chest twice. The other victim is currently in hospital in a serious condition.The murderer, whose name has not been released, was furious about the nois
Australian construction firms accused of abusing workers

IndustryJul 26, 2011

Some Australian construction companies based in Sydney have been accused of maltreatment of immigrant workers, labor unionists said.The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) of Australia claimed they are taking advantage of foreign workers by hiring them through illegitimate procedures while paying wages below minimum level.CFMEU estimated that of 13,000 temporary foreign workers
Norway gunman claims active network at court hearing

World NewsJul 26, 2011

OSLO (AFP) -- More than 100,000 Norwegians thronged central Oslo on Monday in a vigil for the victims of a last week's attacks hours after the suspect told a court hearing that he had an active network of accomplices.People comfort each other outside Oslo City Hall as they participate in a "rose march" in memory of the victims of Friday's bomb attack and shooting massacre Monday July 25. (AP-Yonh
Korean dead in Ghana while escaping “abduction”

Social affairsJul 26, 2011

A female Korean student died in Ghana while apparently trying to escape from potential abduction, according to Korean government on Monday. The 21-year-old victim, a student from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, was on a trip with other four classmates for a school project to research the slave trade.The team had landed on Kotoka International Airport in the capital Accra on Sunday H
U.S. parties unveil competing debt plans

World NewsJul 26, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans and Democrats upped the ante Monday by putting forth competing plans to resolve the high stakes fight over slicing away at the government deficit and increasing the U.S. borrowing limit, but no compromise was in sight with time running out to prevent a potentially catastrophic default in barely a week.President Barack Obama planned to address the nation at 9 p.m. Mo
Talks with N. Korea to test its seriousness about dialogue: State Dept.

North KoreaJul 26, 2011

The U.S. State Department emphasized Monday that this week's talks with North Korea in New York are just to see whether it is prepared for full-fledged negotiations on denuclearization.The North's vice foreign minister, Kim Kye-gwan, is scheduled to visit New York later this week for a meeting with a U.S. government delegation, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced earlier."We see this as a