PARIS (AFP) -- Moody's Investors Service said on Monday it had downgraded Greece's sovereign debt rating by three notches, leaving it one away from default, and warned creditors would lose out from the latest bailout deal.The ratings agency said in a statement that it has "downgraded Greece's local- and foreign-currency bond ratings to Ca from Caa1 and has assigned a developing outlook to the rati

KABUL (AP) -- Insurgents in southern Afghanistan hanged an 8-year-old boy six days after they abducted him, the Afghan government said Sunday.The boy's captors had demanded that his father, a police officer, supply them with a police vehicle and he refused, said a statement from President Hamid Karzai's office. The militants hanged the boy Friday in Helmand province's Gereshk district.``President

South Korea and China will hold their inaugural defense strategic talks this week in Seoul, the defense ministry here said Monday.The first strategic dialogue is scheduled for Wednesday, the ministry said in a statement. Lee Yong-gul, the South's vice defense minister, and Air Force Gen. Ma Xiaotian, deputy chief of general staff of the Chinese Army, will lead each delegation, the ministry added."

An international team of nuclear safety experts said on Friday that South Korea has strong regulations on operating atomic energy facilities safely and preventing accidents, concluding their two-week mission here.The special review, called the Integrated Regulatory Review Service (IRRS), by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) came at the request of the South Korean government.“This was t

BEIJING (AFP) -- At least 41 people died on Friday when an overcrowded bus that was carrying hazardous goods caught fire in central China, state television reported.The fire happened early on Friday morning on a highway in Henan province, China Central Television (CCTV) said.Five passengers and the driver were pulled out alive from the overnight bus-- made up of 35 berths allowing passengers to sl

A video of a dog attacking a shark posted on YouTube by an Australian man is grabbing global attention. The footage shows two big dogs swimming in the ocean near the West Australian town of Broom, about 1,650 kilometers north of Perth. The dogs appear to be headed into the path of the sharks without realizing, but one suddenly attacks a shark. "The dog is biting the shark,” said Russe