SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Apple has eased the subscription policies for its hot-selling iPad and iPhone in a move that should help newspaper and magazine publishers make more money from mobile devices.The change will make it easier for publishers to sell subscriptions for the devices outside Apple's online store.That's important to publishers because they have to give Apple 30 percent of the revenue f

NEW YORK (AP) -– About 200,000 Citibank credit card customers in North America have had their names, account numbers and email addresses stolen by hackers who broke into Citi's online account site.Citigroup Inc. said it discovered that account information for about 1 percent of its credit card customers had been viewed by hackers. Citi has more than 21 million credit card customers in North Americ

Korea's central bank raised the key interest rate by a quarter percentage point on Friday following a two-month freeze, resuming its monetary tightening to curb persistent inflationary pressure.Bank of Korea (BOK) Gov. Kim Choong-soo and his fellow policymakers hiked the benchmark seven-day repo rate, dubbed the base rate, to 3.25 for June.The June rate hike, which marked the third increase this y

A 12-year-old boy accused of murdering his little brother could be sentenced to life.Cristian Fernandez from Florida is charged with first-degree murder and will be facing trial as an adult.According to reports, Cristian repeatedly struck his 2-year-old brother David’s head while his mother was out. David was later found unconscious bleeding badly.When the mother, Biannela, returned home, she trie

A Korean soldier reportedly rescued two victims from a car accident and also caught the hit-and-run driver.Park Sam-young, sergeant, was on the way to the hospital where his 4-year-old son was admitted when he saw an automobile driving in wrong direction, towards his car. While Park managed to avoid it, another car behind him could not, resulting in a severe crash The sergeant ran to the destroyed

A woman from the Netherlands has engraved 152 of her online friends on her arm.While some criticize that friendships within the world-famous social network are just temporary, the woman proved that they can be far more permanent.After the tattoos were done, she posted a video clip on YouTube. In the video’s description, she wrote: “These are not all my friends. Just the people I care most about. I

Cheongju Heungdeok Police Station have arrested a 35-year-old man who allegedly posed as an agent from the National Security Agency to deceive his classmates.The accused, identified by his surname Lee, approached to one of his classmates and said that he is an agent from NSA. After buying his trust, the swindler persuaded his friend to make an investment in the Daegu English Village project.Lee pr

A British boy allegedly struck his mother to death with a bat, after she became engaged to a man eight months after the death of his father.James Gethen, 15, allegedly killed his mother a few hours after she announced her engagement on her Facebook.The accused suffered from meningitis, which may have affected his behavior, reports said. The boy has a record of being in trouble including throwing a

Hyundai Motor Co. was forced to halt output at one of its plants in South Korea Thursday after unionized workers talked off their job after one of their colleagues committed suicide, the company and union said.Assembly workers laid down tools at Hyundai's plant in Asan, about 100 kilometers southwest of Seoul, from 2:30 p.m., claiming that one of their leaders committed suicide earlier in the day

North Korea on Thursday threatened to disclose voice recordings of a secret meeting with South Korea where it said rejected the South’s proposal to hold a series of summits. “If all (South Korean officials who attended the meeting) refuse to admit the truth, we will have to disclose the full recordings of the contact,” the Korea Central News Agency, the north’s state news agency, reported, quoting