Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon said Tuesday that he would spend reserve funds to continue the city’s projects that have been suspended due to the opposition of the city council.The announcement comes after a series of talks between Oh and the Seoul City Council ended without reaching any agreement by Monday. “(The city government) has decided not to neglect any more citizens’ inconvenience and suspended s

WASHINGTON, (AFP) - A NASA spacecraft is just hours from its long-anticipated encounter with a comet, and skywatchers hope the flyby will shed light on how the comet's surface has changed since it skimmed by the Sun in 2005.The US space agency's Stardust-NExT mission spacecraft "is within a quarter-million miles (402,336 kilometers) of its quarry, comet Tempel 1, which it will fly by tonight," NAS

Police said Monday they have launched a manhunt for the husband of a woman after her body was found over the weekend, at least 12 years after her death.Her 20-year-old daughter found the body wrapped in 10 layers of vinyl and contained in a cardboard box at her home in Seoul on Saturday and then alerted police, officials said. (MCT)Fingerprints have shown the body was that of her mother, identifie

Ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak is suffering from serious health problems and fainted before his last speech, informed sources in Egypt told Palestinian news agency Ma’an on Sunday.“Mubarak’s condition was the reason his much anticipated speech on Thursday was delayed. Egyptian army leaders avoided exerting more pressure on the former president in the final days of his rule due to his poor he

Lovers nationwide celebrated Valentine's Day yesterday, with 250 couples registering their wedding at Bangkok's Bang Rak (Village of Love) district, while Pattaya hosted a contest for the longest kiss - and seven couples broke the world record.As has become tradition, couples made their weddings memorable at various sites in Thailand. Nine couples in Chiang Mai registered their marriage midair in

ALGIERS (AFP) ― Hundreds of stone-throwing demonstrators clashed with police in the eastern Algerian city of Annaba on Sunday, as the opposition announced another major anti-government rally next weekend.Washington meanwhile called on Algeria’s security forces to show restraint, a day after nationwide protests against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika that reportedly led to dozens of arrests and poli

Contenders attack leading potential candidate for 2012 pollPolitical competitors of former Grand National Party Chairwoman Rep. Park Geun-hye are moving to dampen her increasing efforts to keep the political pendulum swinging in her favor ahead of the 2012 presidential vote.Park, the frontrunner among potential presidential candidates, has recently made moves toward her bid for Cheong Wa Dae, whic

Another round of heavy snow hit the nation’s east coastal area Monday, which had already received a record snowfall of more than 100 centimeters over the weekend. While officials and local residents were busy clearing streets and vehicles, the weather agency expected more snow of up to 50 centimeters in Gangwon Province until Monday evening. On Friday alone, Gangneung, a major city in the region,

A 36-year-old Seoul man has been arrested on charges of distributing over 33,000 files of pornographic materials to Internet cafes nationwide and earning at least 200 million won ($178,000) in illegal profits, police said Monday.The suspect, identified only by his surname Suh, is accused of having uploaded 33,353 files of sex videos and other pornographic materials to two Web sites since last July

CAIRO - Several major pieces have been stolen from the Egyptian museum, including a statue of King Tutankhamun, Egypt's minister of state for antiquities Zahi Hawass said on Sunday.The objects missing from the famed museum included "a gilded wood statue of the 18th Dynasty king Tutankhamun being carried by a goddess" and parts of "a gilded wood statue of Tutankhamun harpooning," Hawass said in a s