BETHESDA, Maryland (AFP) ― Not until Choi Kyung-ju captured two key PGA tuneup events for major championships in 2007 did the Korean golf star start thinking he had the talent to win a major title himself.Four years later, and after yet another impressive triumph at last month’s Players Championship, Choi heads into Thursday’s start of the 111th U.S. Open confident on a Congressional Country Club

A heartwarming story can give hope to those who want to give up their lives: Cha Actor Cha In-pyo remembers one day he went out for a bike ride in 1998. Korea was going through a major financial crisis. While riding his bike along the Han River he ran into a middle-aged man who was sobbing alone near a notorious suicide spot. Cha did not know what to do, so he just passed him by. Cha In-pyo (Yonha

The police on Tuesday sought arrest warrants for two people suspected of brokering illegal sales of human eggs and booked 13 ovum donors without detention. Seoul police on Tuesday sought arrest warrants for two people on charges of brokering in the illegal trade of human eggs via the Internet. (MCT)The ovum brokers identified only by their last names Koo and Chung ran a website where people shared

An Israeli woman has become a mother two years after her death, local reports told.Keren Ayash, who was suffering from cancer, had to leave her husband in 2009 at age 35. After her diagnosis, the couple had embryos frozen for future use.Her last wish was to have a baby via a surrogate mother, which Nisim, her husband, agreed to.(MCT)However, Nisim had to go through many legal difficulties. The Isr

Chimps spit water into tube to reach peanutsIn Aesop’s fable “the crow and the pitcher” the bird uses stones to raise the water level in a jug. Chimps in an experiment showed a similar problem solving skills to obtain some peanuts.A research team in Germany tested this challenge on five gorillas, 43 chimpanzees and three groups of 24 kids aged 4, 6 and 8. The subjects were given a 26 centimter gla

Korea's top financial regulator said Tuesday it is not desirable for KDB Financial Group Inc. to bid for state-run Woori Finance Holdings Co., raising the chances that the much-awaited sale of the group will hit a snag.Korea announced a road map for the sale of state-run Woori Finance, the country's No. 2 banking group, on May 17, after it suspended the deal worth around $6 billion to sell its 56.

World-famous actor Al Pacino, 71, appeared on the red carpet with a woman on his arm Sunday night at Tony Awards. His new girlfriend, Argentinean actress Lucila Sola, is 40 years younger than Pacino.  Al Pacino and his girlfriend on the red carpet at Tony Award. (AP)After relationships with celebrities including Diane Keaton and Tuesday Weld, fans are envious and curious about the secret of Al Pac

An Italian named Matteo Ianneo claims to have found a mound on Mars that looks like a the face of Mahatma Gandhi, Space.com reported.He is one of space enthusiasts who are looking for interesting objects using Google Mars, a new online map pieced together from satellite images of the Red Planet.In the past few weeks he claims to have found vegetation, entrances to underground tunnels and city ruin