DHARAMSHALA, India (AFP) - The Dalai Lama announced Thursday he would step down as political head of Tibet's exiled government, but continue to push the Tibetan cause in his key role as its spiritual figurehead.In a speech on the anniversary of a failed uprising in 1959 against Chinese rule, the Dalai Lama said he would seek an amendment allowing him to resign his political office when the exiled

Senior presidential officials expressed regret Friday over Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee's thinly veiled criticism against a proposal to introduce a profit-sharing system between conglomerates and their subcontractors here as part of efforts to balance their growth.   It is unusual for top Cheong Wa Dae officials to take direct aim at a powerful head of South Korea's family-owned conglo

　It has been found that a single bite from the world’s most poisonous spider can give men a four-hour erection, British paper the Metro reported on Tuesday.　The Medical College of Georgia in the U.S. found that the Brazilian wandering spider’s toxin can be an effective treatment on impotence in rats. The research team is further looking into whether the wandering spider’s poison can treat erectile

TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's embattled Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Friday admitted to receiving donations from a man believed to be a foreign national, the same violation which claimed the foreign minister his job."I thought he was a Japanese national as he had a Japanese name," Kan told a parliamentary committee after a newspaper report said that Kan's fund-management body had taken donations from a Sou

A stream of light slides down an orange line until it meets a green cube and disperses, reflecting off a yellowish shine. On artist Choi Eun-hyea’s canvas, rigid cubes are softly highlighted and turned into something gentle and pastel-toned, almost mushy. Choi is showcasing drawings, paintings and installations that ponder the relationship between space, time and light at her first-ever solo show.

The Seoul government is anxious that the escalating scandal involving Korean diplomats and a Chinese woman in Shanghai might damage diplomatic relations with Beijing.Kim Jung-ki, former consul general in Shanghai, returns home Wednesday night in Seoul after being interrogated on the leak of consular files to a Chinese woman. (Lee Sang-sub/The Korea Herald)Officials here say the government informat

A South Korean diplomatic mission chief in Japan has resigned over allegations that he misappropriated government money, an official said Friday, adding to concern about decaying discipline of diplomats amid a sex scandal rocking the mission in Shanghai.   The chief of South Korea's consulate general in Niigata, identified only by his surname initial Y, quit last month after an investigation into

Megan Fox’s trainer denies the public’s assumption that the star is suffering from anorexia. (AP)Worries were raised about the “Transformers” star after new advertisements for Armani featured Fox with a skeletal appearance. Yet, her personal trainer, Harley Pasternak announced that Fox is “far from that.”“Believe it or not she has this really fast metabolism,” Pasternak told Hollywood Life. Concer

A stroke is a sudden interruption in the blood supply of the brain. Because strokes occur rapidly and require immediate treatment, a stroke is also called a brain attack. Most strokes are caused by an abrupt blockage of arteries leading to the brain (ischemic stroke). Other strokes are caused by bleeding into the brain tissue when a blood vessel bursts (hemorrhagic stroke).When the symptoms of a s