WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) _ A series of strong earthquakes shook the quake-weary New Zealand city of Christchurch on Monday, briefly trapping two people inside a church.The quakes forced people to flee in panic from buildings. There were no initial reports of injuries.Christchurch has been shaken by thousands of aftershocks since a 6.3-magnitude quake killed 181 people in February.A series of t

Scientists have found two rare active, “supermassive” black holes about 425 million light-years away, Space.com reported. The galaxy Markarian 739 in the constellation Leo is known to have one enormous black hole at its core. New observations by NASA’s Swift satellite and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory revealed that the galaxy, which resembles a smiling face, has another monster black hole at its c

Former Agriculture Minister Im Sang-gyu was found dead in his car in the southern city of Suncheon, in what appears to be a suicide, police said Monday. He was 62. Im, president of Sunchon National University since July, was under two separate criminal investigations led by prosecutors ― one regarding a bribery scandal over construction-site catering contracts and the other, the unfolding savings

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) ― Two explosions went off minutes apart in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar Sunday, killing 34 people and injuring nearly 100 in one of the deadliest attacks since the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden last month, officials said.The blasts, one of which was caused by a suicide bomber, occurred just after midnight in an area of the city that is home to political

Unsuccessful ventures eat into mobile carrier’s valueSK Telecom, the nation’s No.1 wireless service provider, has proved to be far from savvy when it comes to overseas ventures. After unsuccessfully knocking on the doors of numerous overseas markets including the U.S. and China for six years, the company was forced to call it a day. The failure was such that former SKT chief executive Chung Man-wo

With next year’s general election looming, rival parties appear unsure over policies to ease the burden of university tuition.The ruling Grand National Party, which had preemptively raised the issue of halving tuition, has changed its policy on how much to cut tuition by, while the main opposition Democratic Party has turned drastically toward the expansion of scholarships to differentiate itself

Lawmaker leads parliamentary forum for a multicultural KoreaThe key to multiculturalism lies in reciprocal integration, according to the chairwoman of the National Assembly forum on multiculturalism.“When it comes to multiculturalism, people generally think of immigrant wives from Southeast Asia, but the term should be taken to a higher plane,” Rep. Kim Hye-seong told The Korea Herald.“Not only do