BEIJING (AFP) - Knife-wielding attackers in China's ethnically-tense Xinjiang stabbed to death seven people and injured 28 others in a rampage, authorities said Sunday, in the region's latest bout of unrest.One of the attackers was later killed in the violence that erupted Saturday night in Kashgar city -- the second attack this month in Xinjiang, where the mainly Muslim Uighur minority has long s

LONDON (AFP) - South Korea midfielder Lee Chung-Yong will be out of action for nine months after breaking his leg in a pre-season friendly playing for English Premier League side Bolton.The 23-year-old international had to be stretchered off during the first half of the game against Newport County.  (Yonhap News)It was later confirmed that he had undergone a successful operation to repair a double

At least 41 people were killed and 12 others missing as of Thursday morning as torrential rains triggered landslides, flooding and power outages in Seoul and central regions, the nation’s disaster control agency said.“The death toll could rise, as more reports are coming in,” an official at the National Emergency Management Agency said. Vehicles wade through a water-logged road in Yeouido, Seoul,

The heaviest downpours in a century pounded Seoul and its surrounding areas on Tuesday and Wednesday, triggering landslides and flooding streets and homes. About 20 houses in a remote village on the southern tip of the capital were buried under mud swept from a nearby mountain around 9 a.m., claiming the lives of five residents, officials said. One person went missing.A road in Daechi-dong, southe