Researchers who dug up King Richard III's skeleton say they appear to have discovered another problem the hunchback monarch had during his brief and violent reign: parasitic worms in his guts that grew up to a foot long. In those remains, dug up last year beneath a parking lot in Leicester, the researchers say they discovered numerous roundworm eggs in the soil around his pelvis, where his intestines would have been. They compared that to soil samples taken close to Richard's skull and surroundi

중세 영국 플랜태저넷 왕가의 마지막 왕인 '리처드 3 세'(재위 1483∼1485년)가 두개골 부위의 큰 상처 탓에 숨졌고, 사망 당시 회충(roundworm)에 감염됐을 것이라는 연구 결과가 나왔다. 영국 케임브리지대와 레스터대 공동연구진은 4일(현지시간) 의학저널 란셋에 지 난해 발굴된 리처드 3세의 유해 주변 토양을 분석한 결과 소화기가 있었을 것으로 추정되는 골반 부근에서 다량의 회충 수정란이 발견됐다고 발표했다. 레스터대 발굴팀은 지난해 9월 영국 이스트미들랜즈 레스터의 한 공영주차장에서 리처드 3세의 것으로 추정되는 유골을 발견, DNA 분석을 통해 혈통을 확인한 후 케임브리지대 고고인류학팀과 함께 사인 규명 작업에 착수했다. 이들 연구진의 초기 분석 결과에 따르면 리처드 3세의 직접적 사인은 두개골 부 위에서 발견된 2개의 큰 상처와 관련된 것으로 추정된다. 연구진은 현재 리처드 3세의 척추측만증 관련 기타 병력과 유전력에 대해 조사하고 있으

South Korean stocks traded 0.13 percent lower late Wednesday morning amid rising woes over possible military action by the United States in Syria, analysts said.The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) fell 2.42 points to 1,931.32 as of 11:20 a.m.Tech blue chips continued to trade lower, with Samsung Electronics falling 0.6 percent and flat panel maker LG Display losing 1.89 percent. Samsung Electro-Mechanics, a local industrial parts maker, shed 0.61 percent.Retailers also traded

Hong Myung-bo, a head coach of the South Korean men’s national football team, gave a piece of advice to footballer Park Chu-young, referring to his prolonged absence from professional play.“Park should find a new team first in order to join the national soccer team,” said Hong bluntly in the meeting with reporters on Tuesday.Hong did not call on Park for the 2013 EAFF East Asian Cup, as the head of the Korean squad made it clear he would not pick any player who is not active on an established te

축구국가대표팀 홍명보 감독이 3일, 새로운 팀을 찾지 못하고 있는 박주영 선수에게 “대표팀에 합류하려면 새로운 팀을 찾는 게 급선무” 라며 단호하면서도 진심 어린 충고를 했다. 홍 감독은 지난 7월 동아시안컵에 이어 6일과 10일에 있을 예정인 아이티, 크로아티아 평가전에도 박주영을 호출하지 않았다.이는 홍 감독의 대표선수 발탁 조건이 ‘소속팀에서 주전급 활약’이기 때문이다.“경기에 나서지 않는 선수는 아무리 기량이 좋아도 경기 감각이 떨어지게 마련이다.”셀타 비고(스페인) 임대를 끝내고 현재 아스널(잉글랜드)에 소속되어 있는 박주영은 큰 활약을 보이지 못했다. 영국, 이탈리아, 독일, 프랑스 유럽이적시장이 화요일 마감됨에 따라 새로운 팀으로의 이적을 실패한 박주영은 4일 마감 되는 네덜란드와 스페인 이적시장을 노려야 할 것이다. 하지만 그를 원하는 팀이 없어 가능성은 희박하다.이적이 성사되지 않을 경우에는 겨울 이적시장에서 새로운 팀을 찾거나 아스널과의 계약기간이 만료되는 2014

South Korean stocks closed 0.08 percent lower Monday as the rising woes in the Middle East dented investors' sentiment in spite of improved economic data, analysts said. The local currency moved up against the U.S. dollar.The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) fell 1.55 points to finish at 1,924.81. Trading volume was low at 238.8 million shares worth 3.37 trillion won (US$3.04 billion) with gainers outpacing losers 458 to 330.Market watchers said the decline came as advanced co

South Korean stocks traded almost flat late Monday morning, as investors sat on the sidelines on the prospect of a U.S.-led military attack on Syria, analysts said.The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) edged down 0.25 points, or 0.01 percent, to 1,926.11 as of 11:20 a.m.Blue-chip shares led the market decline, with Samsung Electronics falling 0.22 percent and top carmaker Hyundai Motor losing 2.21 percent. Kia Motors shed 2.23 percent.Builders traded bullish, with Hyundai Engin

Nonprofit arms under South Korea's top business groups held 5 trillion won (US$4.5 billion) worth of shares as of August, data showed Monday, urging the authorities to intensify oversight for transparency.Three nonprofit arms of Samsung Group saw their stock assets reach 2.7 trillion won at end-August, taking up 57 percent of all assets held by 19 conglomerate-linked charities, according to the data by Chaebul.com.Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., South Korea's leading shipbuilder, held two nonprofi

South and North Korea on Monday started talks on how to ensure the smooth running of their joint industrial complex to prevent another interruption from political or other non-economic factors.The two Koreas agreed on Aug. 14 to reopen the suspended Gaeseong Industrial Complex in the North Korean border city of the same name and inked a deal last Thursday to create a new joint committee that will oversee operations at the inter-Korean factory zone, which had been previously run by a North Korean

Nelson Mandela, 95, was discharged from the hospital on Sunday while still in critical condition and was taken by ambulance to his Johannesburg home where he will receive intensive care, the office of South Africa's president said.  On a sunny but cold morning, an ambulance took the anti-apartheid leader home from the hospital in the capital, Pretoria, where he had been since June 8 when he was admitted for what the government has described as a recurring lung infection.  Mandela's condition "is

The body of an Indian soldier who died in a plane crash 45 years ago has been found in the Himalayas and will be given a military funeral, the army said Sunday.  A team found the soldier's body, still wearing a uniform with personal identification documents in the pocket, on August 22 -- more than four decades after he and 97 others died when an army transport aircraft crashed in February 1968.  The man, identified as Jagmail Singh, came from Meerpur village in Haryana state south of the Himalay

David Frost had sparred with Richard Nixon for hours, recording a series of interviews with the former president three years after he stepped down in disgrace over Watergate. But as the sessions drew to a close, Frost realized he still lacked something: an acknowledgement by Nixon that he had been wrong.Nixon had admitted making mistakes, but Frost put down his clipboard and pressed his subject on whether that was enough. Americans, he said, wanted to hear him own up to his misdeeds and acknowle