President Barack Obama plans to send the U.S.-South Korea free trade agreement to Congress in the next few weeks, but ``serious issues'' are holding up deals with Colombia and Panama, his top trade official said Wednesday.U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk told the House Ways and Means Committee that Obama hopes Congress will approve the South Korean pact this spring. The administration says that

US President Barack Obama has finally kicked his craving for the odd cigarette -- and his wife Michelle is "very proud" the former puffer-in-chief can look his kids in the eye and say he doesn't smoke.Obama's struggle to beat his addiction has been a subject of inordinate fascination for the US press, throughout his barnstorming 2008 campaign and in the first two years of his presidency. President

Troubled US starlet Lindsay Lohan is to be formally charged Wednesday with stealing a 2,500 dollar necklace from a jewellery store, prosecutors said Tuesday.The actress, who is on probation after completing a court-ordered spell in rehab for drug addiction, admits she took the necklace from a Venice Beach store but claims it was only on loan.But Deputy District Attorney John Lynch said she will be

A Volkswagen commercial broadcast during the Super Bowl Sunday night in the United States has become a hit on TV as well as on YouTube, with hundreds of thousands of people having watched it so far.  The commercial featured a child dressed as Darth Vader trying to use “the force” on everything around the house. Six-year-old actor Max Page played the mini-Darth Vader and became a star literally ove

Military officers from South and North Korea Tuesday began preliminary talks to lay groundwork for a higher-level meeting, a defense ministry official said, the first meeting since the North's deadly bombardment of a border island. "The working-level military talks started at around 10:00 a.m. as scheduled in the Demilitarized Zone," said an official at the Defense Ministry.The colonel-level talks

영국의 한 속옷 전문 업체 브라비시모가 KK컵 브라를 개발하여 판매한지 2년후, 이보다 더 큰 사이즈를 사이즈의 속옷을 만들어 달라는 여성들의 요청에 이 업체는 L 사이즈의 거대 브라를 선보였다.영국 데일리메일은 L 사이즈컵의 개발로 여성의 가슴이 점점 커지고 있는 이유를 분석했다. 여성의 가슴이 점점 커지고 있는 이유는 약 세 가지를 들 수가 있다. (MCT)1. 비만1950년대 영국 여성의 평균 가슴 사이즈는 B컵이었으나 현재 34E사이즈로 증가했다고 속옷 업체 브라비시모가 밝혔다. 유방암 전문가 마이클 바움 박사는 현재 우리는 비만이라는 유행병을 앓고 있다면서 이에 따라 여성의 가슴사이즈가 커지는 것도 놀라운 사실이 아니라고 말했다.2. 호르몬그러나 최근 들어 몸은 날씬한데 가슴은 큰 여성들이 늘어나기

전세계 동영상 사이트 유투브(YouTube)에 14만 칼로리 초대형 버거가 등장해 화제를 모으고 있다.두 명의 남성으로 구성된 ‘에픽 밀 타임(Epic Meal Time)’은 무게 24.5kg에 이르는 고칼로리 버거를 만드는 과정을 녹화했다.(YouTube)이 대형 버거를 완성하기 위해 베이컨 9kg, 소고기 6kg, 소시지 5kg가 사용되었다. 고기를 층층이 쌓아 올린 뒤, 고기 더미 위에 소스 뿌리개를 이용하여 바비큐 소스를 얹었다. 4.5kg짜리 거대 햄버거 빵으로 고기를 뒤덮음과 동시에 실체를 드러낸 칼로리 폭탄 버거는 네티즌들의 관심을 사로잡았다.비디오 초반에 에픽 밀 타임이 언급했듯이, 이들은 초대형 고칼로리 버거 제작에 성공하는 놀라운 묘기를 선보였지만 이 버거를 다 먹어치우겠다던 이들의 도전은

Thirty-one North Korean people crossed the tense Yellow Sea border by boat and arrived in South Korea two days ago, but they have not expressed any wishes to defect to the South, a military official said Monday. The North Koreans, consisting of 11 men and 20 women, arrived on Yeonpyeong Island by a wooden fishing boat in thick fog at around 11 a.m. Saturday and were towed away to the western port

VANCOUVER _ An organization that fights animal abuse is calling the slaughter of 100 sled dogs by an outdoor adventure company in British Columbia a bloodbath and police are investigating.Sled dogs pull a tourist during a tour run by Outdoor Adventures in the Soo Valley north of Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, on Monday, Jan. 31, 2011. (AP-Yonhap News)The British Columbia SPCA's manager of ani

TOKYO _ A revived volcano in southern Japan erupted Tuesday with its biggest explosion yet, shooting out a huge plume of gas, boulders and ash and breaking windows 5 miles (8 kilometers) away.The danger zone around Shinmoedake volcano was widened to keep residents safe. The largest eruption since it burst back to life last week covered wide areas in ash, shot boulders onto distant roads, knocked d

TOKYO — Hundreds of people living near a Japanese volcano that has been spewing columns of smoke and ash thousands of metres into the air were forced to evacuate their homes Monday, a local official said.More than 600 residents of the town of Takaharu in Miyazaki prefecture, on the eastern outskirts of the erupting Mount Shinmoedake, were sheltering in school gyms and community halls, an official

North Korea likely has at least one secret nuclear facility, in addition to a plant at Yongbyon whose existence was reported last year, according to diplomats who have read a confidential United Nations report. A UN panel of nuclear experts also said in the report that North Korea is receiving technical assistance from visiting foreign scientists, according to the diplomats who described the findi

OSLO - The vibrant protest movements across the Arab world, Russian human rights activists and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will all likely be in the running for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, observers say as the deadline for nominating candidates approaches.According to existing rules, the Norwegian Nobel Committee will only consider candidate proposals sent by February 1 for its pick, to be an

TAIPEI--A 13 year-old boy has become the youngest person to become infected with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) through sexual intercourse, according to health officials. It is suspected that the boy became infected while working part- time for a 50 year-old male, who lured him into sex with money, said Lin Ting, deputy director-general at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).The boy

Park Ji-sung, who has represented South Korean football in each of the past three FIFA World Cups, announced his retirement from international play on Monday."It's been an infinite honor and a source of great pride for me to represent my country as a football player," Park said through a statement. "And I've enjoyed a lot of glory and happiness thanks to the love of the fans. But I've come to a di