Asiana Airlines Flight 214 was flying at an airspeed of just 106 knots when it crashed at San Francisco airport, well below the recommended landing speed of 137 knots for the Boeing 777, the head of the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said Monday.Two Chinese schoolgirls were killed on Saturday and more than 180 other people were injured when the flight from Seoul clipped a seawall short of the runway and went skidding out of control on its belly, shredding the tail end of the plan

The Obama administration signaled Monday that U.S. national security interests will trump its promotion of Egypt's budding democracy, stressing the importance of continued aid to the Egyptian military, which overthrew the elected president last week.As violence blazed between security forces and supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, the White House and State Department both urged the military to exercise ``maximum restraint.'' They also said the military would not be punished w

The Fair Trade Commission said Monday that it will file a complaint against Namyang Dairy Products with the prosecution for bullying sales agents and retailers.In addition, the nation’s largest dairy product maker was slapped with a 12.3 billion won ($10.6 million) fine by the antitrust regulator as an administrative sanction.Namyang Dairy was found to have abused the headquarters’ power during some of its deals with 1,849 sales agents nationwide between 2007 and May 2013, according to the FTC.T

Pilots of Asiana Flight 214 were flying too slowly as they approached San Francisco airport, triggering a control board warning that the jetliner could stall, and then tried to abort the landing seconds before crashing, according to federal safety officials.Investigators also said they were looking into the possibility that rescue crews ran over one of the two teenagers killed in the crash on Saturday. Officials released the details without explaining why the pilots were flying so slow _ or why

Raul Castro stood shoulder-to-shoulder Sunday with Latin American countries willing to take in NSA leaker Edward Snowden, but made no reference to whether Cuba itself would offer him refuge or safe passage.Venezuela and Bolivia both made asylum offers to Snowden over the weekend, and Nicaragua has said it is also considering his request.``We support the sovereign right of .... Venezuela and all states in the region to grant asylum to those persecuted for their ideals or their struggles for democ

Hundreds of thousands rallied across Egypt on Sunday in support of the popular military overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi as the interim government said it would announce a new prime minister within a day.Staged two days after Islamist rallies exploded into bloodshed, the protests came as a senior official said a new prime minister would be announced on Monday.Interim president Adly Mansour was leaning towards appointing centre-left lawyer Ziad Bahaa Eldin as prime minister and Nobel Laureate

Andy Murray needed one more point, one solitary point, to win Wimbledon _ a title he yearned to earn for himself, of course, and also for his country.Britain had endured 77 years since one of its own claimed the men's trophy at the revered tournament referred to simply as The Championships, and now here was Murray, on the brink of triumph after 3 hours of grueling tennis against top-seeded Novak Djokovic under a vibrant sun at Centre Court.Up 40-love, Murray failed to convert his first match poi

South Korea fell to Iraq 5-4 on penalties in the quarterfinals of the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup here on Sunday, coming up short of making its first semifinals appearance at the tournament in three decades.At Kadir Has Stadium in Kayseri in central Turkey, two South Korean kickers failed to convert in the decisive shootout as Iraq moved on after a thrilling encounter.South Korea was seeking its first final four berth in the biennial event since 1983 in Mexico. The competition was still called the

내년도 시간당 최저임금이 올해보다 7.2%(350원) 오른 5천210원으로 결정되었다.최저임금위원회는 4일 오후 7시부터 시작된 전원회의에서 이같이 인상안을 정하고 심의 및 의결했다고 5일 밝혔다.이번에 인상된 내년도 시간당 최저임금을 월 단위로 환산하면 주 40시간(월 209시간) 사업장 기준으로 108만8천890원이다. 최저임금위원회는 이번에 인상된 최저임금이 저소득에 시달리는 근로자 256만5천명에게 혜택을 줄 수 있을 것으로 예상했다.박준성 최저임금위원회 위원장은 “금년 인상분 7.2%에는 실질경제성장률, 물가인상률, 유사 근로자 임금 인상률, 소득분배개선 등을 고려했다”며 “근로자의 임금격차를 향후 5년간 지속적으로 개선할 목적으로 소득분배개선분을 금년도 인상분에반영한 것이 특징”이라고 말했다.이틀동안 진행된 내년도 최저임금 인상안은 15명이 찬성표를, 9명이 사실상 기권표를 던지면서 통과됐다. 최저임금 심의ㆍ의결을 위해서는 전체 위원 과반 투표에 참여자 과반수의 찬성이 필

South Korea will call for "constructive development" of the suspended inter-Korean industrial complex when it holds working-level talks on the plant's resumption with the North over the weekend, a government official said Friday.The two Koreas agreed to hold talks at the neutral border village of Panmunjom on Saturday so operations at the Kaesong Industrial Complex can resume after being suspended for nearly three months.In a news briefing, Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Hyung-suk said Seoul

Foreigners' net selling of local stocks hit a nearly two-year high last month, as the U.S. Federal Reserve's signal to gradually end its easy-money policy prompted them to leave the Seoul market, the financial regulator said Friday.Overseas investors sold off a net 5.14 trillion won (US$4.51 billion) worth of local equities in June, a turnaround from the 300 billion won net purchase the previous month, according to the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS).The June figure is the largest net sellin

South Korea will host football nemesis Iran in a friendly match later this year, setting up an opportunity for the Red Devils to avenge a pair of losses to Team Melli in the recently concluded World Cup qualification tournament, officials said Friday.The Korea Football Association (KFA) said South Korea will take on Iran on Sept. 6, one of several FIFA-designated international match days.The venue and the time of the match have yet to be determined, the KFA added."We couldn't really find a team

Korea’s minimum hourly wage will rise 7.2 percent to 5,210 won ($4.57) next year, a three-party council of government, labor and business representatives said Friday.Under the agreement, the minimum wage of laborers working 209 hours a month will be increased to 1.08 million won. About 2.56 million workers will benefit from the deal, it added.“Diverse factors including economic growth rate, price inflation and wage increase rates of other income groups have been reflected in the 7.2 percent (wag

Egypt's military moved swiftly Thursday against senior figures of the Muslim Brotherhood, targeting the backbone of support for ousted president Mohammed Morsi. In the most dramatic step, authorities arrested the group's revered leader from a seaside villa and flew him by helicopter to detention in the capital.With a top judge newly sworn in as interim president to replace Morsi, the crackdown poses an immediate test to the new army-backed leadership's promises to guide Egypt to democracy: The q

The South African government on Thursday denied that former president Nelson Mandela is in a permanent vegetative state, as outlined in court documents filed on June 26."We confirm our earlier statement released this afternoon after President Jacob Zuma visited Madiba in hospital that Madiba remains in a critical, but stable condition," said the statement using Mandela's clan name."The doctors deny that the former president is in a vegetative state," the statement added.Court documents obtained