American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan won the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday, a stunning announcement that for the first time bestowed the prestigious award on a musician.The Swedish Academy cited Dylan for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.''Reporters and others gathered for the announcement at the academy's headquarters in Stockholm's Old Town reacted with a loud cheer as his name was read out.American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan (Associ

The owners of explosion-prone large smartphone Galaxy Note 7 are able to refund or exchange their device from Thursday until the end of this year, according to Samsung Electronics. The short-lived Galaxy Note 7, which first rolled out on Aug. 19 in the US and Korea, sold around 1.8 million units globally. Around 500,000 units were sold in Korea alongside 1 million units in the US, where refunds and exchanges began Tuesday. Samsung said Thursday owners of the Galaxy Note 7 would receive benefits

Lax management, poor awareness of medical wastes laid bare at CHA hospital

House Speaker Paul Ryan, the nation’s top elected Republican, effectively abandoned Donald Trump on Monday, telling anxious fellow lawmakers he will not campaign for or defend the floundering businessman in the election’s closing weeks. Pro-Trump members rebelled in anger, accusing Ryan of conceding the election to Hillary Clinton.Indeed, Ryan said he would devote his energy to ensuring Clinton does not get a “blank check” as president with a Democratic-controlled Congress, according to people o

Hyundai Motor, the world’s sixth-largest carmaker, is grappling with a series of distressing events including chronic disputes with its hard-core laborers and unfavorable market conditions. Over the years, the nation’s largest carmaker has fought to maintain a lead in the market, competing globally through investments in research and development, brand value and design. (Yonhap)Despite its stellar performance in and out of the country, the carmaker is likely to continue having it rough for a whi

Russia on Saturday vetoed a UN draft resolution demanding an end to the bombing of Aleppo, but its own rival measure on a truce in Syria‘s war-battered city was rejected.The failure of the two resolutions deepened divisions at the Security Council between Damascus ally Moscow and the Western powers backing opposition rebels in the war.It was the fifth time that Russia used its veto to block UN action to end the five-year war in Syria, which has claimed 300,000 lives.As the council meeting got un

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to end a five-decades-long civil war that has killed more than 200,000 people in the South American country.The award came just days after Colombian voters narrowly rejected the peace deal that Santos helped bring about, and Nobel authorities conspicuously left out his counterpart, Rodrigo Londono, the leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, from the honor. Colombian President Juan Manuel San

Former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres, who is poised to become the next UN secretary-general, is a self-described man of action who earned his stripes as the world body‘s refugee chief, tirelessly pressing rich nations to do more.An engineer by training and fervent Catholic, Guterres, 67, fought unflaggingly for migrants’ rights over a decade as UN High Commissioner for Refugees from June 2005 to December 2015.He repeatedly warned that millions of refugees fleeing conflict in Syria,

STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for developing the world‘s smallest machines, work that could revolutionize computer technology and lead to a new type of battery.　Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage, British-born Fraser Stoddart and Dutch scientist Bernard ``Ben’‘ Feringa share the 8 million kronor ($930,000) prize for the ``design and synthesis of molecular machines,’‘ the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.　 　Machines at the molecular level are 1,

Vice presidential hopefuls Tim Kaine and Mike Pence launched into their only debate of the campaign Tuesday, immediately clashing on the reputations, experiences and policies of their bosses chasing the White House.Democrat Kaine and Republican Pence squared off to highlight their capabilities as the men who could be a heartbeat away from the presidency, but essentially they were on stage fighting a proxy war for their running mates five weeks before Election Day on Nov. 8.Kaine, a US senator fr

Some people are drawn to the flashy and popular, but Nobel laureate Yoshinori Ohsumi isn’t one of them.The 71-year-old Japanese scientist won the 2016 prize in medicine on Monday for his “brilliant” work on how damaged cells recycle themselves -- known as autophagy -- and the major implications it has for health and diseases, including cancer and neurological disorders.But Ohsumi’s field of interest was far from the limelight when he started his career.Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi smiles

Colombians hit their government with a shock defeat Sunday when they voted by a razor-thin majority to reject a historic peace accord with communist FARC rebels.Voters resentful of the blood shed by the FARC narrowly defied the government‘s bid to put the 52-year conflict behind them, reversing the trend of earlier opinion polls.The result threw Colombia’s future into uncertainty. The sides spent four years negotiating the deal and agreed it must be ratified in a referendum -- but said there was

If the future is an array of possibilities ranging from catastrophic to divine, Elon Musk is working to increase the probability of good things happening.Musk has become one of the United States’ best-known innovators. He was a founder of payments company PayPal, electric carmaker Tesla Motors and SpaceX, maker and launcher of rockets and spacecraft.This week Musk, as SpaceX chief, unveiled ambitious plans to establish a Mars colony by sending 100 humans at a time on massive spacecraft, possibly

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, the banking industry sought to address an ethics crisis with surveys, town hall meetings, appointments of overseers and mechanisms for employees to report malfeasance.Now, the high-pressure sales scandal at Wells Fargo & Co. provides more evidence that large US banks may have little to show for the effort.Bank consultants say tens of millions of dollars are spent each year on initiatives to build a culture of integrity, partly at the urging of regul

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Studious and diligent, Hillary Clinton spent weeks getting ready for the first presidential debate, poring over policy papers and sharpening attack lines in practice sessions. Donald Trump did not want to over-prepare and skipped running through a full mock session.At the first presidential debate of general election, it was clear who had done their homework.Hillary Clinton (UPI-Yonhap)Trump was forced to defend his role in the birther movement questioning President Barack Oba