STOCKHOLM (AP) – Takaaki Kajita of Japan and Arthur McDonald of Canada won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for discovering that tiny particles called neutrinos change identities as they whiz through the universe, proving that they have mass.By uncovering the ``chameleon-like'' nature of neutrinos, the laureates had solved a long-standing puzzle in particle physics that could alter our grasp of the cosmos, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.``The discovery has changed our understand

WASHINGTON (AP) – When Chinese President Xi Jinping and wife Peng Liyuan visit Washington later this week, President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, face the daunting task of trying to throw a warm and inviting dinner party for guests of honor accused of cyber-spying on the U.S., trampling human rights and engaging in assertive military tactics.China, in turn, is miffed at the U.S. for what it says are groundless accusations about hacking, and wants the U.S. to butt out of territorial dispu

SEOUL (Yonhap) -- Hyundai Motor Co.'s unionized workers plan to launch a partial strike starting Wednesday after their representatives and the management failed to reach an agreement on a pay raise and other working conditions.The walkout, which will last through Friday, will mark the fourth straight year of labor disputes at the country's No. 1 automaker.The two sides reportedly sparred over the introduction of a so-called wage peak system and the scope of ordinary salaries, which determine ove

NEW YORK (AFP) - The chief executive of Volkswagen America, Michael Horn, used unusually candid language to apologize and admit wrongdoing after the German car giant was caught cheating in US pollution measuring tests."Our company was dishonest, with the EPA and the California Air Resources board, and with all of you and – in my German words – we have totally screwed up," Horn said at an event in New York late Monday, according to video posted by CNBC.Horn pledged to "make things right with the