TOKYO (AP) ― Football may be in Usain Bolt’s future. The Olympic great said Wednesday he might try his hand at the global game once he retires from the track.“I have said I wanted to try football,” said Bolt, the world-record holder at both 100 and 200 meters. “I always wanted to try to play soccer. Maybe at the end of my career. It would be something that I would love to try. I watch it on TV and see these guy plays. I play it all the time with my friends. I played childhood matches in Jamaica

BERLIN (Yonhap News) ― An elderly German woman, whose love story with her long-lost North Korean husband drew international attention in 2008 when they met for the first time in 47 years, said Wednesday she visited the communist nation last month after learning of his death.Renate Hong, 76, visited the North from Sept. 26-Oct. 3 together with her son, after learning that her 79-year-old husband, Hong Ok-keun, died of a cerebral hemorrhage on Sept. 4. She visited his grave and paid her respects.S

The Korea Tourism Organization named jazz saxophonist Kenny G an honorary ambassador of Korean tourism on Wednesday. The appointment was made as he visited Korea to attend the Network of Korean American Leadership (NetKAL) Summit and Gala event on Wednesday. “I am flattered to be named an honorary ambassador in Korea,” said Kenny G at the press conference held along with the event.  Since the musician first visited Korea for a concert 17 years ago, he said he has been drawn to the great exciteme

A 32-year-old British woman has been accused of having sex with teenage siblings, news reports said. Claire Louise Roundill was spared jail after pleading guilty to engaging in sexual acts with the teenagers, supplying cannabis and possessing of the drug at Hull Crown Court. At the first time, she had a relationship with the elder of the siblings. After she was dumped, she started to chat up his younger brother. According to the boys, she has been sending a 15-year-old boy hundreds of text messa

A New Jersey shop owner says a picture at his store depicting President Barack Obama as a witch doctor isn‘t racist, and has gotten mostly positive reaction.The picture at Bill Skuby’s clothing store in Spring Lake, N.J., shows the president in a loincloth with a bone in his nose and a caption reading “Obama Care, coming soon to a clinic near you.” The “C” is formed from the Communist hammer and sickle symbol.Skuby, 66, said he put the photo in the store window last week.“A lot of people feel th

NEW YORK (AP) ― Francois Nars had Andy Warhol coffee table books in his living room and Yves Saint Laurent in his closet growing up in the ’70s in the south of France.“I always feel so terrible for the people who got born after that era because there was something really in the air that was unexplainable,’’ the makeup legend said, lounging in the lobby of a Midtown hotel for a recent interview. “There was something very, very free. Today, everything is so much more controlled and so much more pr

Food, drinks and live entertainment bring the world to the melting pot of SeoulThe world will be at your fingertips at this year’s Itaewon Global Village Festival ― three days jam-packed with various cultural activities, performances and cuisine from around the globe. The festival will be held Friday through Sunday with stages and street booths scattered throughout the Itaewon area. Each day of the festival will showcase a wide range of global cultures, featuring events such as international foo

FRANKFURT (AFP) ― The world’s biggest book fair opened here on Tuesday with the spotlight on children’s literature, traditionally an “under-recognized” sector but now seen as a driving force in publishing.More than 7,000 exhibitors are expected from Wednesday at the five-day Frankfurt Book Fair, which this year also puts the literary traditions, arts and culture of New Zealand in the spotlight as its guest of honour.“Childrens’ books have been doing very well around the world,” Richard Robinson,

PARIS (AFP) ― “Gangnam Style” has secured an unlikely accolade after U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon hailed South Korean rapper Psy’s global hit as a force for world peace.Ban has found himself displaced as the best-known Korean on the planet by the astonishing success of the chubby rapper’s catchy video ― and the veteran diplomat could not be more delighted.“I have seen it several times,” the 68-year-old revealed in an interview with AFP on Tuesday, voicing his pride at the way Psy had broug

A total of 97 businesses and 97 artists on Wednesday joined hands to nurture arts as part of the Korean Mecenat program at the Seoul Namsan Traditional Theater on Wednesday.According to the Korean Business Council for the Arts, the companies, including 24 new council members, will provide 4.4 billion won ($3.9 million) to artists ranging from Korean traditional music groups to actors and dancers. They will participate in the “Arts & Business” program for one year, exchanging ideas and contributi