TIMBUKTU, Mali (AFP) ― “They are not Muslims, they are bandits!” raged Mohamed Elher Ag Abba, whose house flanks a famed archive in Timbuktu where retreating Islamists burnt priceless ancient books and manuscripts before fleeing.There was outrage around the world at the last defiant act of vandalism by the radicals in this fabled city as they fled a French-led offensive on their northern bastion that ended their 10-month occupation.The pickaxes and shovels wielded time and again by militants fro

BALTIMORE (AP) ― A U.S. soldier who lost all four limbs in an Iraq roadside bombing says he looks forward to driving and swimming after a rare double-arm transplant surgery. Twenty-six-year-old Brendan Marrocco spoke at a news conference Tuesday at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He was joined by the surgeons who performed the double-arm transplant. The procedure was only the seventh double-hand or double-arm transplant ever conducted in the United States. Marrocco says he’s happy and amaze

Head priest of Korean unit says will focus on Africa, South Asia

A new study shows that meal timing seems to affect weight loss, suggesting that when people eat matters as much as what they eat. A research team from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and the University of Murcia studied the relationship between meal times and weight loss among 420 participants for 20 weeks. The first group of people was told to eat before 3 p.m. while the latter group ate after 3. The study suggested that early eaters lost more weight than late eaters and did so more quic

A British facial mapping expert says some may be born leaders because most agree leadership and success is equated with certain facial features. Senior lecturer in physics and a facial mapping expert Dr. Chris Solomon and his research team at the University of Kent‘s Canterbury campus in England asked 100 people to rank 100 faces in order of their perceived business acumen and leadership qualities.In men, success and leadership were equated to a rectangular face with angular features, focused ey

Being in a position of power makes people happier, and people who feel powerful in any context tend to be more content, researchers in Israel said. Yona Kifer of Tel Aviv University in Israel and colleagues hypothesized that holding a position of authority might enhance subjective well-being through an increased feeling of authenticity.In their first experiment, the researchers surveyed more than 350 participants to determine if internal feelings of power are associated with subjective well-bein

An English teacher at a public school in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, is fighting for her life after a motorcycle hit her while she was volunteering at an orphanage in India.Karabeth Burton is recovering from emergency surgery but her recovery is far from certain and she is unable to pay all the medical bills. Now her friends are rallying round to raise money to support her.Burton and her friend Sunil Mahtani had been spending their winter break near Mumbai when the accident happened Thu

BUSAN/DAEJEON ― Five South Korean men have been caught on charges of stealing two precious ancient Korean Buddha statues from Japan and trying to sell them in South Korea, police here said Tuesday.Police said they have arrested a 69-year-old surnamed Kim and booked four others without physical detention for violating the cultural properties protection law.The suspects are accused of stealing the two statues from the Kaijin shrine in Nagasaki Prefecture on Oct. 8. They, however, safely entered So

Be mesmerized by thousands of gawking eyes at the Owl Art and Craft Museum

Lawyer Rha Seung-chul, 36, was elected the youngest ever president of the Seoul Bar Association, Monday. It is the first time in the 104-year history of the association for a lawyer under 40 to be elected the leader of the group, which represents about 9,000 lawyers practicing in Seoul. Rha’s election came at the general meeting of the Seoul Bar Association at Grand InterContinental Seoul Parnas in Seoul on Monday afternoon.Votes were cast and counted, followed by the inauguration ceremony, all

The Ministry of Patriots & Veterans Affairs on Tuesday launched a campaign to find a Korean woman who received medical assistance from a U.S. soldier six decades ago.The campaign was initiated after Richard Cadwallader, 82, made the request in December. He helped the girl find treatment for her third-degree burns at a U.S. military hospital in late 1953, while serving as a communications soldier at a U.S. Air Force unit in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province.Cadwallader remembers that a mother walked to hi