As many as 125 students at Harvard University are being probed for allegedly cheating in a final exam at the elite institution, administrators said Thursday.The official university site news.harvard.edu/gazette reported that a large number of undergraduates "may have inappropriately collaborated on answers, or plagiarized classmates' responses, on the final exam for the course."An initial investig

WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) ― Mitt Romney, the U.S. Republican Party presidential candidate, expressed concern Wednesday over North Korea’s alleged sales of nuclear weapons.He described the world as a “dangerous place” and stressed the seriousness of North Korea’s threats.“With instability in Pakistan and horrific violence in Syria, and with North Korea having shared nuclear technology, the threat of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction continues to be very real,” he said, addressing a crow

NEW ORLEANS (AFP) ― Hurricane Isaac pounded New Orleans with fierce winds and torrents of rain Wednesday, but the multi-billion-dollar flood defenses built after Katrina swamped the city seven years ago held firm.Officials ordered the evacuation of about 3,000 people in coastal Plaquemines Parish, the area hardest hit by the storm with top winds still gusting at 90 kilometers per hour, triggering widespread flooding.Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal said at least one person may have died as a resu

DAMASCUS (AFP) ― President Bashar al-Assad said his forces need more time to win the battle in Syria and scoffed at the idea of creating buffer zones for displaced people, as fighting raged nationwide.Assad’s statements, in an interview with pro-regime Addounia channel, came after a car bomb rocked a funeral in a Damascus suburb on Tuesday, killing 27 people.“I can summarize in one phrase: we are progressing, the situation on the ground is better but we have not yet won ― this will take more tim

A 100-year-old driver told police his brakes failed before he struck 11 people, including nine children, Wednesday at a Los Angeles school. Four boys were hurt seriously enough to be transported to a hospital, KTLA-TV reported. Preston Carter, who said he will be 101 next month, said he was backing out of a supermarket parking lot when the brakes gave way, police said. But some witnesses said they

A plane with 180 passengers on board has landed at Amsterdam-Schiphol airport with a possible hijacking in progress, the Dutch military police said Wednesday."The plane has landed at Schiphol. There is a possible hijacking and the police have surrounded the plane," an official of the royal Dutch military police told AFP. "We are trying to make contact with the people in the plane." (AFP) 

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) ― U.N. leader Ban Ki-moon will stress to Iranian leaders this week that they must take “urgent” action on the country’s nuclear drive and human rights, a U.N. spokesman said Tuesday. The warning was given as Ban headed for Tehran to take part in the Non-Aligned Movement summit starting Wednesday. The United States and Israel said that Ban should not go to Iran.The U.N. secretary general will raise the “clear concerns and expectations of the international community on the iss

Japan’s opposition-dominated upper house of parliament passed a censure motion against Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda in a bid to force elections and delay the passage of a bill needed to finance government spending. The main opposition Liberal Democratic Party and smaller groups voted for the non-binding motion, indicating the chamber won’t consider any more legislation before parliament closes on

NEW ORLEANS (AFP) -- Hurricane Isaac lurched towards New Orleans early Wednesday after making landfall, seven years to the day after Hurricane Katrina devastated the “Big Easy” and killed hundreds along the U.S. Gulf Coast.Isaac, which reached hurricane strength earlier in the day and was packing maximum sustained winds of 130 kilometers per hour, lashed southern Louisiana with heavy rains and strong winds, as residents hunkered down.The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the category one storm

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will warn against the use of force between China and its neighbors on a tour of Asia that comes amid mounting tension over sea disputes, officials said Tuesday.On her third visit to Asia since May, Clinton will become the first U.S. secretary of state to take part in a summit of Pacific islands ― an area where China’s influence has been growing ― and to stop in East Timor.Clinton will hold talks in Beijing on Sept. 4 and 5, the United St