PEBBLE BEACH, California (AP) ― Charlie Wi played bogey-free at Spyglass Hill for a 3-under 69 to build a three-shot lead Saturday in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Now it’s time for him to face his demons of self-doubt ― along with a familiar force in golf.Tiger Woods took another step toward showing his game is nearly back. He ran off five birdies in a six-hole stretch early in his round at Pebble Beach and had a 5-under 67 that put him four shots behind going into the final round, the clos

A series of President Lee Myung-bak’s achievements and pet projects have been marred as his political foes intensify their offensive against the conservative leader, who is already faltering under corruption scandals involving his close associates.His key project to refurbish the country’s four major rivers and so-called “resource diplomacy” have lost some of their legitimacy as a local court has ruled against part of the rivers project and a stock-rigging scandal undermined the diplomatic initi

Three children were found dead in South Korea Saturday after their faith-healing father, a Christian pastor, attempted to treat their illnesses only with prayers, police said.The bodies of the children, aged 10, eight and five years old, were found by their relatives at their home next to the pastor's church in the southern county of Boseong, a detective at Boseong Police Station told AFP."They were apparently suffering from infections that went untreated for a long time as the father was only p

DOHA (Yonhap News) ― Leaders of South Korea and Qatar agreed Thursday to form a top-level cooperation mechanism handling all issues of cooperation between the two countries from oil and energy to science and technology, military and security, and green growth, officials said.South Korean President Lee Myung-bak agreed to the establishment of a “High-level Strategic Cooperation Committee” after Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani suggested the mechanism to expand the scope of bilateral

President Lee Myung-bak on Saturday accepted a senior aide's offer to resign over allegations of his involvement in a vote-buying scandal that has hit the ruling party hard ahead of general elections in April.Lee accepted the resignation after his return from a trip to four Arab nations, according to a key presidential official.Kim Hyo-jae, the president's senior political affairs secretary, offered to resign on Friday after news reports that prosecutors may summon him in their investigation of

The Supreme Court made the final decision not to reappoint a Seoul court judge who set off controversy by posting vulgar words about President Lee Myung-bak on his social networking site.The top court’s personnel committee last week assessed the job performance of 180 judges who have served for the past 10 or 20 years as of 2012 and evaluated certain judges as “unfit” for their job.Only those who failed to be reappointed were notified by the top court, and Seo Ki-ho of the Seoul Northern Distric

A delegation of South Korean lawmakers from ruling and opposition parties, have urged the South Korean government to support the Gaeseong Industrial Complex in North Korea, after visiting there for the first time since the death of North Korea’s long-time leader Kim Jong-il in December.They called on the South Korean government to negotiate with the U.S. and the EU, both of which have free trade agreements with South Korea, to give FTA benefits to products made in the complex with the recognitio