SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ― As prosecutors moved closer to finishing their case against Barry Bonds, former major league infielder Randy Velarde described meeting the slugger’s personal trainer outside spring training ballparks for injections of human growth hormone.Velarde said he sought out Greg Anderson because of his link to Bonds, and they met “in various parking lots.”“I can’t remember each,” Velar

Let to speak on broken election pledge FridayRep. Park Geun-hye, currently the ruling Grand National Party’s strongest presidential hopeful, on Thursday expressed regret over the government’s decision to chuck President Lee Myung-bak’s election pledge to build an airport in the southeastern part of the country, adding that Korea should keep pushing for it.The GNP’s factional leader and Lee’s polit

MUNICH ― Events surrounding the military intervention in Libya these last two weeks, and what already has happened in Tunisia, Egypt and Bahrain, and what continues elsewhere in the region, have produced two unplanned but important results.The always-implausible notion that the European Union could have a common foreign policy has been exploded. Since early in the Libyan crisis, France and Britain

South Korea’s defense minister said Thursday his military was willing to hold low-level military talks with North Korea if the North suggests such a meeting again, but insisted that no progress would be possible unless Pyongyang apologizes for last year’s deadly attacks. “If North Korea proposes a dialogue again, (the South’s military) will accept the proposal,” Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin said

South Korea’s foreign minister met with the head of the U.N. aviation safety agency to ask for continuing help in stopping North Korea from sending jamming GPS signals across their heavily fortified border, officials said Thursday.  Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan meets Secretary-General Raymond Benjamin of the International Civil Aviation Organization at his office Thursday. (Yonhap News)South Kor

The Constitutional Court ruled the law which penalizes homosexual relations in the army as being in accord with the Constitution.“The corresponding clause may be regarded neither ambiguous, nor unnecessarily discriminative against homosexual individuals,” said the court in its ruling on Thursday.“Anyone with common sense may judge what the clause signifies by ‘homosexual relations and other sexual

Samsung Electronics, the world’s No. 1 television-maker, is expected to be among the global TV manufacturers forced to sell more cell-type LCD panels due to increasing demands from set-makers who are worried about hostile TV market conditions. “Cell-type panels are soon going to be a substantial trend as more and more set-makers want to reduce costs in the face of the far-from-friendly market cond

The protracted nuclear crisis in Japan and sky-high oil prices are lending fresh impetus to the solar power industry.Shares of solar energy firms have soared recently amid rising safety concerns about atomic energy. Analysts are increasingly optimistic of the prospect of Korean companies increasing investment in the sector to catch up with global rivals.Solar power came into prominence with global