Police said Monday they have launched a manhunt for the husband of a woman after her body was found over the weekend, at least 12 years after her death.Her 20-year-old daughter found the body wrapped in 10 layers of vinyl and contained in a cardboard box at her home in Seoul on Saturday and then alerted police, officials said. (MCT)Fingerprints have shown the body was that of her mother, identifie

Lovers nationwide celebrated Valentine's Day yesterday, with 250 couples registering their wedding at Bangkok's Bang Rak (Village of Love) district, while Pattaya hosted a contest for the longest kiss - and seven couples broke the world record.As has become tradition, couples made their weddings memorable at various sites in Thailand. Nine couples in Chiang Mai registered their marriage midair in

WASHINGTON, (AFP) - Most Americans believe China is the world's leading economy, even though in reality the rising Asian power's GDP trails that of the United States, a poll said Monday.Some 52 percent of Americans said China was the "leading economic power in the world today," against 32 percent who said their own country, the Gallup poll said. The percentage who said China has soared over recent

A 36-year-old Seoul man has been arrested on charges of distributing over 33,000 files of pornographic materials to Internet cafes nationwide and earning at least 200 million won ($178,000) in illegal profits, police said Monday.The suspect, identified only by his surname Suh, is accused of having uploaded 33,353 files of sex videos and other pornographic materials to two Web sites since last July

CAIRO - Several major pieces have been stolen from the Egyptian museum, including a statue of King Tutankhamun, Egypt's minister of state for antiquities Zahi Hawass said on Sunday.The objects missing from the famed museum included "a gilded wood statue of the 18th Dynasty king Tutankhamun being carried by a goddess" and parts of "a gilded wood statue of Tutankhamun harpooning," Hawass said in a s

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Apple is developing a new lines of smaller and cheaper iPhones and overhauling its software to facilitate users' access to entertainment, photos and video, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.The new device -- code-named "N97" -- will be about half the size of the iPhone4 and cost about half as much as Apple's main line of iPhones, the Journal said, citing a person who saw a

Seoul will expand its "no-smoking zone" to include bus stops and neighborhood parks, starting next year, stepping up efforts to heighten public awareness of the health hazards from secondhand smoking, officials said Monday.Under the toughened policy, those caught smoking at bus stops or neighborhood parks in Seoul will be fined 100,000 won (US$89) from 2012, said the officials at the Seoul Metropo

CAIRO (AP) _ Egypt's military rulers took sweeping action to dismantle the autocratic legacy of former President Hosni Mubarak on Sunday, dissolving parliament, suspending the constitution and promising elections in moves cautiously welcomed by pro-democracy protesters.They also met with representatives of the broad-based youth movement that brought down the government after an 18-day uprising tha

NEW YORK (AP) _ A graffiti artist armed with five knives went on a bloody 28-hour rampage across New York City, fatally stabbing his stepfather, ex-girlfriend and her mother, running down a pedestrian with a stolen Lexus and wounding four other people before being arrested in Times Square, police said.Maksim Gelman, 23, was armed with a bloodied kitchen knife when he was taken into police custody

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il could attempt further provocations to boost the standing of his heir-apparent son, the top U.S. intelligence chief predicted Thursday, saying the regime's deadly attack on a South Korean island was believed to be part of such efforts.Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said in written testimony to the House Intelligence Co

Apple Korea has agreed to make a payment to a 14-year-old South Korean iPhone user in the nation's first iPhone damage suit filed for the breakdown of her device supposedly caused by water damage, court officials said Friday.Apple agreed to pay 290,000 won (US$259) to the girl, identified only as Lee, in the lawsuit arbitrated by a Seoul court Thursday. iPhone 4 (Yonhap News)Her father, Lee Chul-h

The number of young men applying to join the Navy's special forces rose to a record level, following a naval commando team's daring raid on Somali pirates last month to free a hijacked South Korean ship, a report said Friday.South Korean naval special forces stormed the 11,500-ton Samho Jewelry seized by Somali pirates in the Arabian Sea on Jan. 21, rescuing all 21 crew members. A total of 184 app

(Yonhap News)The bodies of eight Somali pirates killed in last month's commando raid on a South Korean freighter have been removed from the ship, the first step in transporting them to Somalia, an official said Thursday.The bodies were being kept in a refrigerator aboard the 11,500-ton Samho Jewelry after the Jan. 21 rescue operation to free the cargo ship and its 21 crew members. Five other pirat

The latest rocket attack on a newly built base for South Korean aid workers in Afghanistan calls for thorough security measures for the provincial reconstruction team (PRT) and their base.Five rounds of rocket-propelled grenades were fired toward the base in the city of Charika in the northern Afghan province of Parwan Tuesday evening (local time). Three of them landed in an open area on the base

North Korea's military said Thursday its side will no longer talk to South Korea as long as Seoul remains reluctant to lower tension, a day after their first defense talks in nearly half a year collapsed despite high anticipation.In a bulletin carried by Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency, the North's delegation to the two-day colonel-level talks said its South Korean counterpart "uni