LONDON (AP) ― It must be fashion week: leather jeans, African body paint, androgynous clothes and much more were on display in London Saturday as big names like Vivienne Westwood, Mulberry and Paul Smith made their mark.Day Three of London Fashion Week saw a new strategy for leather pants: instead of the skintight Jim Morrison look, both Mulberry and Top Shop showcased wide-legged, baggy leather pants.Others turned to velvet for a showy, festive look.Much of the attention focused on Westwood, on

By all accounts, Robin B. Akin, a U.S. army brigadier general stationed in South Korea, has had a successful military career, spanning 30 years.From a small town in Tennessee, Akin, now in her third tour of duty to South Korea, has gone all over the world, fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan and leading rescue missions in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. She has also served in Germany, Italy and Japan.But such an extensive career isn’t so out of place in her family.Akin has been the assistant chief of sta

BOSTON (AP) _ U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials plan to investigate whether inhalable caffeine sold in lipstick-sized canisters is safe for consumers and if its manufacturer was right to brand it as a dietary supplement. (Aeroshot)AeroShot went on the market late last month in Massach

Choue Young-seek, founder of Kyung Hee University, died on Saturday from chronic illness. He was 91. Choue had been a pioneer of private higher education in Korea and a life-long campaigner for world peace. Born in North Pyongan Province, North Korea in 1921, he acquired the earlier form of the university, Shinheung Junior College, in 1951 during the Korean War and transformed it into one of the prominent private colleges in Korea. Choue proposed and co-founded the International Association of U

More than 30 people, many of them foreign tourists, were rushed to hospital Saturday on the Thai resort island of Phuket after a chlorine leak at a hotel swimming pool, local officials said. (Bloomberg)The accident occurred shortly after 10:00am (0300 GMT) at the Phuket Orchid Resort and Spa hotel o