Authorities in the United Arab Emirates said a pair of Egyptian parents were arrested when an X-ray machine revealed their baby in their carry-on luggage.Police said customs officers at Sharjah International Airport arrested the couple Saturday on a flight from Egypt when an X-ray machine revealed they were smuggling their 1-year-old baby in a carry-on bag, Gulf News reported Monday.Officials said

A U.S. House panel launched an investigation Monday into whether a U.N. agency sent computers and other technology to Iran and North Korea in possible violation of U.N. Security Council sanctions.The Foreign Affairs Committee probe comes on the heels of a State Department review of the U.N. World Intellectual Property Organization, which insisted last week that it did nothing wrong in providing “s

The Supreme Court has confirmed a three-year prison term for a member of LG Group family convicted of stock manipulation and embezzlement, court officials said Monday.Koo Bon-hyun was convicted of pocketing around 13.9 billion won(US$11.7 million) of illegal profits by manipulating the stock price of Exa E&C Inc., through spreading false information about the company during the process of taking o

An Australian forklift driver who some historians argued was the true heir to the British throne has died in the small New South Wales town he called home, his local newspaper reported Thursday.Mike Hastings, 71, was a real-life aristocrat, born the 14th earl of Loudoun, who moved to Australia in 1960 in search of adventure.He made international headlines in 2004 when a documentary team from Brita

Lotte Shopping Co., the flagship affiliate of retail-oriented conglomerate Lotte Group, said Friday it reached a deal to buy electronics appliance retailer Himart Co. for 1.24 trillion won (US$1.09 billion).The stock purchase agreement calls for the takeover of a 65.25 percent stake in the electronics retailer currently owned by Eugene Corp., Hi Consortium and former Himart CEO Sun Jong-koo, Lotte

Officials said due to a police mix-up, an innocent Atlanta woman spent 53 days in jail on charges of battery and assault.Teresa Culpepper called 911 to report that her boyfriend had stolen her truck on Aug. 21. Around the same time, Angelo Boyd called saying his girlfriend, Teresa Gilbert, had doused him with boiling hot water. The same officer was dispatched to two scenes. However, he reported to

South Korea has postponed the timing of submitting a claim to an extended portion of continental shelf in the East China Sea to a United Nations body to sometime "within this year," according to an official Friday. The foreign ministry had been finalizing details to submit the claim on seabed beyond its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the East China Sea to the U.N. Commission on the Limits of the

South Korean pitcher Lim Chang-yong of the Yakult Swallows in Japan has undergone a successful surgery to repair a torn ligament in his right elbow, the club said.The Swallows said in an announcement Thursday that Lim had his second elbow reconstructive operation, also known as Tommy John surgery after the former major league pitcher. The team estimated Lim, 36, will need about a year to recover.L

Astronomers using a British telescope in Hawaii say they've seen four pairs of stars, known as binaries, that orbit each other closer than was thought possible.While binary stars are common, believed to have formed close together and orbiting each other since birth, it was always thought that if binary stars form too close to each other, they would quickly merge into one single, bigger star.Observ

South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday that it had probably posted a record operating profit in the second quarter on strong sales of its flagship Galaxy series smartphones.Samsung, the world's largest maker of memory chips and smartphones, estimated its operating profit at 6.7 trillion won($5.9 billion) for the April-June period, up 78.7 percent from a year earlier and 14.5 p