Most U.S. women say they use contraceptives because they could not afford to take care of a baby at that time, researchers say.Jennifer Frost and Laura Lindberg of the Guttmacher Institute in New York said few U.S. studies ask women why they use contraception and what benefits they expect or have achieved from its use.Frost and Lindberg surveyed 2,094 U.S. women receiving services at 22 family pla

South Korea's public sector should double up its efforts to improve its business health by increasing management transparency and keeping debt under control, the finance minister said Wednesday."We hope that the public sector institutions will raise the trust of people by enhancing their transparency and push for systematic management, including debt analysis," Bahk Jae-wan told a crisis managemen

One of two new tunnels at North Korea's nuclear test site was damaged by a recent typhoon and heavy rains, but appears to have only minor damage, a Seoul government source said Wednesday.North Korea has built two new tunnels at Punggye-ri in the northeastern province of North Hamgyong, where the North conducted atomic tests in 2006 and 2009, in a possible preparation for its third underground nucl

South Korea's top central banker said Wednesday that the eurozone economy is not likely to improve until next year as the global economic outlook remains subdued."A set of economic data coming from the eurozone has given mixed signals, repeatedly producing positive and negative news together," Bank of Korea (BOK) Gov. Kim Choong-soo said in a monthly meeting with economists."The eurozone economy i

Australian airline Qantas confirmed a crocodile escaped from its cage during a flight and was found roaming the baggage compartment.The airline said the croc got out of its cage during a Brisbane to Melbourne flight last week and was found roaming the baggage compartment by a handler, The Daily Telegraph, Sydney, reported Monday.The reptile was returned to its cage without incident, Qantas said.Th

A British court sentenced a man to three and a half years in prison for molesting a 10-year-old girl who caught the act on her Nintendo DS, officials said.John Fisher, 46, admitted touching the girl inappropriately in January 2010 and November 2011, after the photographic evidence was presented, Britain's The Daily Mirror reported Wednesday.Detective Constable Annabelle Bunn, the Suffolk police of

A former U.S. Air Force basic training instructor at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland pleaded guilty Monday to having sex with a trainee.Staff Sgt. Jason Manko admitted to wrongfully seeking a relationship with a technical trainee and wrongfully engaging in sexual activity with the woman, base spokesman Brent Boller said.Manko is the fifth instructor to face trial in a scandal at the Texas air base

A mid-air brawl between two passengers on a flight from Zurich to Beijing was caused by an altercation over the position of a passenger's seat back, a Swiss-German tabloid reported on Tuesday.A flier aboard Sunday's Swiss airline flight - a 57-year-old Chinese man who was reportedly tipsy - felt disturbed during his meal when the passenger in front of him reclined his chair, the newspaper Blick re