William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge participate in Canada Day celebrations on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Friday July 1, 2011. (AP-Yonhap News)OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) _ Prince William and Kate have started the third day of their Canadian tour with a tree-planting ceremony at Government House that has become a royal family tradition.The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge each wielded a sho

 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, (AFP) - A treasure trove of gold and silver jewelry, coins and precious stones said to be worth billions of dollars has been found in a Hindu temple in southern India, officials said on Saturday.The valuables have an estimated preliminary worth of over 500 billion rupees ($11.2 billion), said Kerala Chief Secretary K. Jayakumar, catapulting the temple into the league of India'

(MCT)SYDNEY, (AFP) - Australian officials were on Saturday working to isolate potential victims after uncovering two more cases of the deadly horse-borne Hendra virus, which has erupted in a second state.Spread to humans from horses, Hendra can lead to fatal respiratory illness and has killed four of the seven people who have contracted it in Australia since it was first documented in 1994.A fresh

(Yonhap News)SEOUL (Yonhap) -- Subway and bus fares in Seoul and its adjacent cities will likely jump by 10 percent in the second half of the year, adding to the already heavy financial burden on households under inflationary pressure.The Ministry of Public Administration and Security announced a guideline for local governments' management of public service fares on Thursday, allowing them to marg

This artist's conception provided by the European Southern Observatory shows ESO's Very Large Telescope and a host of other telescopes' discovery of the most distant quasar found to date. This brilliant beacon, powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun, is by far the brightest object yet discovered in the early Universe. (AP-Yonhap News)LOS ANGELES (AP) _ A team of Euro

This undated photo provided by Jean Weber shows her mother, Lena Reppert. The gravely ill 95-year-old woman had to remove her wet diaper at an airport so that she could be patted down by security screeners and nearly missed her flight, her daughter said Monday. (AP-Yonhap News)DESTIN, Fla. (AP) – A gravely ill 95-year-old woman had to remove her wet diaper at an airport so that she could be patted

French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde poses before giving a television interview, Tuesday June 28, 2011 in Paris, after she has been chosen to lead the International Monetary Fund. She will become the first female managing director of the global lending organization.(AP-Yonhap News)WASHINGTON (AP) _ French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde was chosen Tuesday to lead the International Monetary

Prince Albert II of Monaco and his fiancee Charlene Wittstock attend to the St Jean Religious Parade , Thursday, June 23, 2011, in Monaco. Prince Albert II of Monaco and his fiancee Charlene Wittstock of South Africa, will wed on July 1 and 2.(AP-Yonhap News)MONACO, France (AFP) - Monaco's royal palace Tuesday angrily denied media rumours that princess-to-be Charlene Wittstock tried to leave the p

(AFP-Yonhap News)Cattle under 30 months of age allowed, as with U.S. beef importsThe government has decided to lift its import ban on Canadian beef after blocking them for about eight years over mad cow disease concerns, allowing local consumers to buy Canadian product once feared to affect humans. The Agriculture Ministry said Seoul and Ottawa agreed to resume imports of Canadian cattle younger t

People attend a world record attempt at a photocall to highlight the release of the film "The Smurfs" in 3-D at the O2 Centre in london on the june 25, 2011. Simultaneous Smurf gatherings took place in 12 countries, all to be counted as part of a world record attempt which they broke. (AFP-Yonhap News)  (Xinhua-Yonhap News) (AFP-Yonhap News) <한글 기사> 4천여명 스머프날 기념 코스프레..기네스 경신지난 53년간 사랑을 받아온 만화 '개구쟁

South Korean national football team celebrates winnning against Jordan on Thursday in the regional Olympic football qualification. (Yonhap News)AMMAN, (Yonhap) -- South Korea on Thursday advanced to the third and final round of the regional Olympic football qualification, despite a 1-1 draw against Jordan here.Substitute Hong Chul scored the second-half equalizer for South Korea and gave the visit