The tender, sensual lesbian romance “Blue is the Warmest Color: The Life of Adele” won the hearts of the 66th Cannes Film Festival, taking its top honor, the Palme d'Or.The jury, headed by Steven Spielberg, took the unusual move of awarding the Palme not just to Tunisian-born director Abdellatif Kechiche, but also to the film's two stars: Adele Exarchopoulos and Lea Seydoux. The three clutched each other as they accepted the award, one of cinema's greatest honors.“The film had a beautiful French

Syria's foreign minister said on Sunday that his government will take part in a peace conference in Geneva, terming it a "good opportunity for a political solution" to the civil war in Syria.Walid Muallem also praised an Iraqi army operation against Sunni militants near the border with Syria, during a surprise visit to Baghdad that came as Iraqi authorities searched a Syria-bound aircraft.He said during a news conference in Baghdad that he had told his counterpart Hoshyar Zebari and Iraqi Prime

An anti-terrorism police official in Kenya says one of the suspects who killed a British soldier on a London street in a savage attack was arrested in November 2010 near the East African country's border with Somalia.Anti-terrorism unit head Boniface Mwaniki said Sunday that Michael Adebolajo was believed to have been preparing to train and fight with the al-Qaida-linked Somali militant group al-Shabab. He said Adebolajo was arrested with five others, and later deported. Adebolajo was identified

North Korea condemned on Sunday the United States' recent ballistic missile test, saying the "military provocation" justifies its military buildup.On May 22, the U.S. fired the intercontinental ballistic missile Minuteman 3 from a California base as part of the country's test flight aimed at determining weapon accuracy. The original test plan scheduled for mid-April was delayed amid tensions with North Korea. "Today's reality on the Korean Peninsula desperately urges our republic to strengthen o

Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA), the single biggest operator of Boeing's flagship 787, said it put its Dreamliner fleet back into service Sunday following a four-month suspension due to battery problems.One of ANA's high-tech planes arrived safely at Haneda in Tokyo on time from Sapporo in Hokkaido as a relief service with some 220 passengers aboard, the firm and airoprt officials said.It was ANA's first commercial flight of Dreamliners since the planes were grounded worldwide after two separat

Two rockets slammed into the Hezbollah heartland of south Beirut on Sunday as fighters from the Lebanese Shiite group battled alongside regime forces against rebels in a key town in neighboring Syria.The early morning attack came as Syria's fractured opposition began an unscheduled fourth day of meetings on a peace conference proposal and after Hezbollah pledged "victory" in Syria over the rebels.Its chief Hassan Nasrallah said it was in the militant anti-Israeli group's own interest to defend P

그것이 알고싶다 ‘사모님의 이상한 외출'편이 방송돼 누리꾼들의 관심을 받고 있다. 5일 밤 11시 15분 방송된 SBS ‘그것이 알고 싶다’에서는 사위와 이종사촌 여대생이 사귀는 것으로 오해하고 청부 살인을 지시한 한 중견기업 회장의 아내 윤모씨를 둘러싼 검찰과 병원의 비리를 파헤쳤다. 청부 살해된 여대생 하모씨는 머리와 얼굴에 공기총 6발을 맞은채 지난 2002년 경기도 하남 검단산에서 숨진 채 발견됐다. 수사 결과 중견기업 사모님인 윤씨가 판사인 사위와 숨진 여대생이 사귀는 것으로 오해하고 저지른 사건이었다. 윤씨는 재판 결과 무기징역형을 선고 받았다.이처럼 남은 생을 평생 감옥에서 속죄해도 모자랄 윤씨는 엉뚱한 곳에 있었다. 청부살인자 윤씨가 유방암 치료를 목적으로 형집행정지 허가를 받은 이래 수차례에 걸쳐 연장 처분을 받아 병원 특실에서 생활해 온 것으로 드러는 것. 제작진은 윤씨가 어떻게 검찰로부터 형집행정지를 허가받았는지에 조사했다.확인 결과, 윤씨는 2007년 유방암 치

박근혜 대통령의 방미기간 인턴 여직원을  성추행한 혐의를 받고 있는 윤창중 전 청와대 대변인이 경기도 김포 자택에 머물며 대응책을 마련하고 있는 것으로 알려졌다. 윤 전 대변인은 지난 11일 기자회견을 열고 성추행 의혹을 전면 부인하며 열심히 살라는 의미로 인턴 여성의 "허리를 툭 쳤다"고 주장했다. 기자회견 후 보름째 모습을 드러내지 않고 있는 윤 전 대변인은 평소 친하게 지낸 몇몇 지인과 휴대전화로 연락하며 대응책을 고심하고 있는 것으로 전해졌다. 또 법률 전문가의 도움을 받아 향후 미국 현지  경찰 조사에 대한 대책도 마련 중인 것으로 알려졌다. 경기도 김포경찰서의 한 관계자는 26일 "단정할 수는 없지만 윤 전 대변인이 자 택에서 계속 칩거 중인 것으로 추정하고 있다"며 "사실 관계를 정리하며 여론이  수 그러들기를 기다리는 것 같다"고 말했다. <관련 한글 기사>'Ex-spokesman Yoon mulls steps in seclusion’Former presidential

Private education institutions suspected of leaking exam questions for the U.S. college admission test will be subject to severe penalties, including business shutdown, Seoul's education authorities said Sunday.The announcement came as about 10 local private institutions providing lectures for the U.S.-based Scholastic Aptitude Test(SAT) have been under prosecution investigations on suspicions of leaking test questions to exam takers. Amid the suspicions, the SAT operator College Board canceled

Two Japanese scholars said Saturday that they have been warned by their government in Tokyo for visiting South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo, to which Japan has also laid claims.Norio Kuboi, a former professor at Momoyama Gakuin University, Yoshihiro Kuroda, a former lecturer at the Kobe Shoin Women's University in Osaka, and another Japanese made the visit to Dokdo on Thursday where they declared the islets Korean territory. Right after the trip, the scholars said they were visited by two

Prosecutors are tracing overseas bank accounts of CJ Group with help from the banks to secure evidence to allegations that the local food and entertainment conglomerate amassed a massive slush fund offshore, sources close to the investigation said Friday.The country's 14th largest conglomerate has been under a probe on allegations that the company managed a slush fund worth about hundreds of billions of won in total in foreign countries, including the British Virgin Islands, a well-known tax hav

Seoul may not accept the North's proposal to hold a joint event for the 13th anniversary of a landmark reconciliatory inter-Korean agreement, a government official said Friday. "It's not an easy decision," the government official told Yonhap News Agency. "A lot of South Koreans may have to travel to the North, and it may entail many issues, including a safety guarantee (of the cross-border travelers)," the official said, indicating that the government is likely to reject the joint ceremony offer