The main accused in the fatal gang-rape of a student on a bus in New Delhi last December hanged himself in jail Monday while in solitary confinement, prompting outrage from the victim's family.Ram Singh, one of six people on trial over the shocking attack, was found dead shortly before dawn after making a noose out of his clothing, according to officials at Delhi's top-security Tihar jail."He tied all his clothes together and used the ceiling grill and a wooden stool to hang himself," the prison

Harvard University officials secretly searched 16 deans' email accounts, looking for a media leak in the Massachusetts school's cheating case, officials said.The resident deans are on the university's Administrative Board, the committee responsible for handling the cheating case, The Boston Globe reported.Administrators said only one of the deans' two Harvard email accounts was searched, and the people looking through the accounts were directed to look only for a specific forwarded message and t

South Korea imposed additional sanctions against North Korea following the United Nations Security Council's toughened regulations to punish the North's Feb. 12 nuclear test, the finance ministry said Sunday.According to the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, South Korea put three additional North Korean officials and two entities on the blacklist, including officials from a North-based trade firm and a banker.South Korean citizens and companies making financial transactions with people and firms

North Korea drummed up threats of an all-out nuclear war with South Korea and the U.S. on Sunday, one day ahead of the two allies‘ planned joint military drill which the communist country denounces as targeting the North. “Our front-line military groups, the army, the navy and the air force, the anti-aircraft units and the strategic rocket units, who have entered the final all-out war stage, are awaiting the final order to strike,” North Korea’s Rodong Sinmun, the most widely circulated daily pu

Former U.S. President George W. Bush will be remembered as a "great artist," his painting teacher says.In an interview with WAGA-TV, Atlanta, Bonnie Flood of Cumming, Ga., said she spent a month with Bush in Boca Grande, Fla., giving him 6 hours of daily instruction, Politico reported Friday.She told the Fox affiliate the former president started out painting dogs and graduated to landscapes as he became more comfortable with the medium.Three of Bush's paintings became public when a hacker poste

A 75-year-old Japanese man died after 25 hospitals refused to admit him to their emergency rooms 36 times over two hours, citing lack of beds or doctors to treat him, an official said Tuesday.The man, who lived alone in a city north of Tokyo, called an ambulance after suffering breathing problems at his home in January.Paramedics rushed to his house but were told in turn by all 25 hospitals in the area that they could not accept the man because they did not have enough doctors or any free beds,

NASA says the Curiosity rover is returning to normal after a computer problem limited its activities.The space agency said Monday that the car-size rover exited safe mode over the weekend. In safe mode, the rover suspends its science activities but is still in contact with Earth.Curiosity is now preparing to resume its science experiments _ perhaps by next week.Engineers still don't know what caused Curiosity's memory glitch.The rover was in the middle of analyzing powder from a rock it had rece

Samsung’s next smartphone will include a feature to track a user‘s eye movements to automatically scroll pages, The New York Times reported.The Galaxy S IV, to be introduced this month, will track a user’s eyes to determine when and how to scroll images on its display, a Samsung employee who spoke on condition of anonymity told the Times.For example, when a user‘s eyes reach the bottom of a page of an article, the display will automatically scroll down to reveal the next page of text.Samsung has