This photo is not directly related to the article. (MCT)Former students at the prestigious Horace Mann School in New York told The New York Times Magazine they had been sexually abused at the school.The magazine, in a story posted online Wednesday, said the school did not inform police or parents of the sexual abuse by at least three teachers, all of whom are now dead, from the 1970s through 1994.

Once upon a time, a guy choreographed the fight scenes for the third installment of the movie trilogy, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.” That guy now lives in Seoul.His name is Kent Kim and he recently began sharing his wisdom and passion for martial arts training with Koreans and foreigners alike via personal kickboxing training sessions on the rooftop of his apartment in Haebangchon, central Seoul. In the shadow of Seoul’s most noticeable landmark, Namsan Tower, his students can hit and kick out

MONTREAL (Yonhap News) ― On Tuesdays at 2 p.m. in Montreal, Quebec, five to six Korean students and Canadians gather at the CKUT radio building close to McGill University to broadcast something rarely heard on the airwaves ― a one-hour live show about Korea.The Voice of Korea, or VoKo, is a bilingual English-Korean broadcast with a mandate to serve both the Korean community in the greater Montreal region and Canadians interested in learning more about Korea. In a country where locally produced K

CAIRO (AP) ― Hosni Mubarak’s health sharply deteriorated Wednesday, days after he was sentenced to life in prison, and specialists were evaluating whether to transfer him to a better-equipped hospital outside the penal system, security officials said.The deposed leader’s health scare added to the uncertainty engulfing Egypt, where powerful political groups are seeking to bar Mubarak’s former prime minister from the presidential runoff and derail the election.Officials at Cairo’s Torah prison sai

KABUL (AP) ― U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta arrived in Afghanistan on Thursday to take stock of progress in the war and discuss plans for the troop drawdown, even as violence spiked in the south.Making his fourth trip to the war zone, Panetta acknowledged the increase in attacks and that the insurgents appear to be much more organized. But he insisted that the overall level of violence was down, and that commanders had expected the uptick.Panetta said he wants to get an assessment of the si

NEW YORK (AP) ― New Yorkers lined the West Side waterfront to welcome the space shuttle Enterprise as it sailed up the Hudson River on Wednesday to its new home aboard the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.The prototype space shuttle rode a barge from Jersey City, New Jersey to the Intrepid, where it was hoisted by crane onto the flight deck.A flotilla of vessels including a police boat, a Fire Department boat and a yellow taxi boat accompanied the Enterprise as it sailed past the Statue of Liber

 A two-year-old dead boy woke up before his funeral, then lay back down, lifeless, after drinking a glass of water on Friday in Brazil.Kelvin Santos died from pneumonia and respiratory failure at 7 p.m. on Friday in Aberlardo Santos Hospital. The following day, he reportedly sat up in his coffin during his wake, and asked his father for water. After drinking the water, he then lay back down and did not wake up again.Antonio Santos, the boy’s father, brought his child’s body to a hospital in Bele

A British man effectively ‘ratted on’ himself after he wrote a Facebook message during a trial that he may ‘get away with’ his assault crime, according to news reports.Michael Ruse, 21-year-old charged for attacking a friend’s father, posted a status update as the jury were preparing their verdict, saying “Yeah, I think I get away with it tbh (to be honest) x.”Unfortunately for the over-confident Ruse, the exchange was printed and delivered anonymously to the Portsmouth Crown Court where he was