Rafael Nadal extended his sizzling summer with his first Cincinnati title Sunday, while No. 1 Serena Williams wilted just one set away from a breakthrough of her own.Nadal took advantage of the few openings he got against John Isner, grinding out a 7-6 (8), 7-6 (3) win at the Western & Southern Open that added yet another title to his sensational summer.The 27-year-old Spaniard won the championship in Montreal a week ago and has back-to-back hard-court championships for the first time in his ill

Oscar Pistorius is due to re-appear in a South African court on Monday to face charges of killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. Here's what is expected to happen next:___INDICTMENT:The 26-year-old double-amputee Olympian will be indicted on a main charge of premeditated murder on Monday at Pretoria Magistrate's Court, prosecutors say, confirming they will maintain the charge they initially laid against Pistorius for Steenkamps's shooting death in February when they go to trial.Pistorius denie

Egyptian police fired tear gas Sunday in an attempt to free a guard from rioting detainees, killing at least 36 as the country's military leader vowed to tolerate no more violence after days of clashes that killed nearly 900 people. The deaths of the prisoners, captured during the fierce fighting in recent days around Cairo's Ramses Square, came as Gen. Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi also called for the inclusion of Islamists in the government. Meanwhile, security forces detained Muslim Brotherhood member

배우 겸 연극연출가 백원길(42)이 숨진 채 발견됐다. 16일 한 매체에 따르면 이날 오전 9시께 강원도 양양군 서면 남대천에서 백원길의 시신이 발견되었다.강원도소방본부는 15일 실종 신고가 접수된 백원길에 대해 수색작업을 벌이던 중 자택에서 얼마 떨어지지 않은 남대천 상류 1m 깊이 물 속에 빠져 숨져있는 시신을 발견했다.백원길의 후배로부터 전날 집을 나간 백원길이 돌아오지 않고 있다는 신고가 접수되어 수색작업을 벌여 왔다.백원길은 약 3개월 전부터 양양에 거처를 마련하고 홀로 생활해 왔다. 그는 남대천에서 어항을 놓고 낚시를 해 온 것으로 알려졌다.현재 경찰은 정확한 사고 원인을 밝히기 위해 조사를 벌이고 있다.한편 백원길이 낚시를 즐긴 정황이 그의 SNS를 통해 드러났다. 백원길은 지난 13일 자신의 트위터에 “오호 밤낚시 하려고 열심히 땅파서 지렁이 하고 벌레들 잡았더니 피곤해...그냥 샤워하고 누워 버렸네...”라는 글을 게재했다. 또한 이전에도 백원길은 “새로 이사한 양양

Actor and theater director Baek Won-gil was found dead Friday in an apparent drowning accident, fire officials said. Gangwon Fire Headquarters said they found Baek’s body in meter-deep water at Namdae Stream in Gangneung, Gangwon Province at 9 a.m. Rescuers had been conducting a search operation after Baek’s friend reported him missing Thursday. Police officials think Baek drowned while on a fishing trip. According to local news reports, Baek had recently moved to Yangyang County and had spent t

South Korean stocks closed 0.2 percent lower Friday as improved economic data sparked concerns over a reduction in the U.S. quantitative easing, analysts said. The local currency gained against the U.S. dollar.The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) fell 3.8 points to finish at 1,920.11. Trading volume was moderate at 334.8 million shares worth 3.55 trillion won ($3.19 billion) with losers outpacing gainers 429 to 354.Analysts said Seoul shares lost ground due on the market outlo

South Korea on Friday proposed holding talks with the North next week to arrange the first reunions of separated families in nearly three years in September. The offer delivered through the border communication channel was a follow-up to President Park Geun-hye’s Liberation Day address one day before, in which she suggested resuming family reunions and establishing a peace park inside the Demilitarized Zone. On Wednesday, the two Koreas agreed to take steps to reactivate the factory complex in G

State prosecutors began searching the national archives Friday as part of their ongoing probe into the disappearance of a 2007 inter-Korean summit transcript that has become a major political issue.The move comes after a Seoul court earlier this week allowed the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office to see all presidential records of the Roh Moo-hyun administration of 2003-2008 that are supposedly kept at the National Archives of Korea (NAK).With the court-issued search and seizure warrant,

South Korea's producer prices fell for the 10th straight month in July as the local currency's gain to the U.S. dollar helped offset higher oil costs, the central bank said Friday.The producer price index, a barometer of future consumer inflation, slid 0.9 percent in July from a year earlier, compared with a 1.4 percent on-year decline in June, according to the Bank of Korea (BOK).On a yearly basis, the producer prices have fallen every month since October 2012 when such prices fell 0.5 percent

South Korean stocks opened lower Friday tracking overnight losses on Wall Street as an improved economic data sparked concerns over a reduction in the U.S. quantitative easing, analysts said.The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) shed 16.20 points, or 0.84 percent, to 1,907.71 in the first 15 minutes of trading.Tech shares closed bearish, with No. 1 player Samsung Electronics plunging 1.08 percent and top chipmaker SK hynix falling 1.2 percent. Top flat panel maker LG Display sh

With astonishing speed, Egypt has moved from a nation in crisis to a nation in real danger of slipping into a prolonged bout of violence or even civil war.Egypt has become increasingly polarized since the Islamists rose to power following the 2011 revolution that ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak. Fault lines touching key and potentially explosive issues like identity, the rights of Christians and other minorities, and democratic values have never been greater. The Muslim Brotherhood and their hard-

The Korean Red Cross plans to provide North Korea with an emergency fund of US$100,000 to help flood victims in the communist country, an official from the organization said Friday.  "The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has asked for our participation in supporting the flood-hit North Korea," the official said. "In accordance, we've decided in humanitarian terms to send $100,000 to the IFRC to provide the victims there with relief goods." he added. The mon