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Debate rages over ‘overly fatty’ samgyeopsal
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40 flights canceled on Jeju Island due to bad weather
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[Weekender] Korean psyche untangled: Musok
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N. Korea slams US, other countries for seeking alternative to UN sanctions monitoring panel
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Pandemic left Korea more depressed than before: report
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Gov't appears to shelve punitive measures against mass walkout by doctors
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[Eye Interview] 'If you live to 100, you might as well be happy,' says 88-year-old bestselling essayist
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From fake prostitution ring to nonexistent robber, prank calls hamper police
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Missing S. Korean traveler in Paris found safe after 2 weeks
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S. Korea, China, Japan in talks to hold trilateral summit May 26-27: official
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Man hiding from girlfriend gets stuck
A man who had to be cut from a garbage chute in the Russian city of Tyumen told emergency workers he was hiding from his girlfriend. (Courtesy of Tyumen emergency services)The 32-year-old man said he was on the eighth floor of his building when he decided to disappear, RIA Novosti reported. He went into free fall before getting wedged in at the fifth-floor level of the garbage chute. "An eyewitnes
May 18, 2012
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Finger found in Arby's sandwich
A Michigan couple said their family will no longer be eating fast food after the woman's 14-year-old son found a piece of a human finger in his Arby's sandwich. (MCT)Jamie Vail and Joe Wheaton said the woman's son, Ryan Hart, discovered the finger fragment when he bit into his Arby's junior roast beef sandwich at the Jackson restaurant and spit the object out to identify it as a piece of finger, t
May 18, 2012
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Ahmadinejad wants to attend London Olympics
TEHRAN (AP) -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is eager to attend the Olympic Games in London to support Iranian athletes but says that Britain has a "problem" with hosting him.Ahmadinejad was quoted on Thursday by the official IRNA news agency as saying he would like to be "beside Iranian athletes" in London but that the British are unwilling to have him there. He did not elaborate.Britain is in a
May 17, 2012
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Berlin airport opening delayed further
BERLIN (AP) -- The opening of Berlin's new 2.5-billion-euro ($3.18-billion) airport must be further delayed until spring of next year, the capital's mayor said Thursday, in a growing embarrassment for city officials. The airport's planned June 3 opening was canceled at the last minute last week over unresolved fire safety issues but officials then said it could likely be opened this August. But
May 17, 2012
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s wife found dead in N.Y.
BEDFORD, New York (AP) ― Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s estranged wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy, who had fought drug and alcohol problems, was found dead in her home Wednesday. Attorney Kerry Lawrence, who had represented her in a drunken-driving case, said he didn’t know the cause of her death at age 52. An autopsy was scheduled for Thursday. Police confirmed a body was found on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s property in Bedford, north of New York City, but wouldn’t release the dead person’s name. The former
May 17, 2012
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Egypy’s revolutionaries lack a candidate
CAIRO (AP) ― A black smoke covered Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Around a dozen protesters who had been holding a weekslong sit-in demanding an end to military rule had come to the conclusion their gathering was useless. So over the weekend, they splashed gas on their tents and banners, burned them to ashes and left.Last year, Tahrir was the icon on the revolution, where hundreds of thousands massed daily in the uprising that ousted longtime authoritarian ruler Hosni Mubarak in the name of democracy. N
May 17, 2012
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U.S. backed Yemen army pushing al-Qaida back
ADEN (AFP) ― Yemen’s army, with the backing of U.S. experts, is slowly gaining ground in its southern offensive against al-Qaida, diplomats and officials said on Wednesday, as the death toll in five days of fighting rose to 144.The Yemeni air force late afternoon launched two air strikes targeting al-Qaida positions near Loder in Abyan province, killing 16 jihadists and wounding 14 others, according to a spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees, a local militia.On the ground, a military o
May 17, 2012
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Syria accused of new ‘massacre,’ U.N. team evacuated
DAMASCUS (AFP) ― Syrian forces were accused Wednesday of having executed 15 civilians, as the office of U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan said U.N. observers were evacuated from a tense town a day after a blast hit their convoy.Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, however, accused the West of ignoring violence by “terrorists” and said he would demand an explanation from Annan when he visits Damascus later this month.“After regime forces raided the neighborhood of Shammas (in the central city of Ho
May 17, 2012
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Hollande unveils moderate new cabinet
French president appoints mainly moderate Socialists, gender-balanced cabinetPARIS (AFP) ― French President Francois Hollande unveiled a government of mainly moderate Socialists and longtime allies Wednesday as his new prime minister vowed to work quickly to put the country back on its feet.He also met his promise to appoint an equal number of men and women in his cabinet, a first for France, although most of the senior posts went to men.Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Hollande’s new gover
May 17, 2012
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Greece gets caretaker P.M. until next vote in June
ATHENS (AP) ― A senior judge was sworn in Wednesday to head Greece’s caretaker government for a month as the debt-crippled country lurches through a political crisis that threatens its membership in the 17-nation eurozone.The political uncertainty is worrying Greece’s international creditors as well as Greeks themselves, who have withdrawn hundreds of millions of euros from banks since the May 6 election.Council of State head Panagiotis Pikrammenos, 67, was appointed earlier Wednesday to head a
May 17, 2012
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Man, 24, cleared after 7 years in prison
A London man who spent seven years in prison after being convicted of murder at age 18 was released Wednesday.Sam Hallam, 24, was expected to be formally exonerated Thursday, The Guardian reported. A prosecutor said Wednesday the government would not oppose his appeal or release.The victim, Essayas Kassahun, 21, was killed in a gang fight in 2004. His lawyer, Henry Blaxland, blamed police and the
May 17, 2012
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Man spends eight days on domino project
A YouTube user uploaded a video of him building tens of thousands domino pieces on May 11, drawing more than 440,000 hits in a little more than a week.The man, under the YouTube username of FlippyCat, stacked 60 big dominoes which contained 990 dominoes each and another 600 to spell out numbers on the floor. All told, 60,000 dominoes were used.The building process took him approximately 65 and a half hours to build over eight days. It took 12 seconds for all the dominoes to fall down when pushed
May 17, 2012
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Child porn suspect stabs computer with samurai sword
Federal agents in Florida said a man suspected of downloading hundreds of child pornographic files used a two-handed samurai sword to stab his computer.The U.S. Attorney's Office said federal agents obtained a search warrant for the home of Kamil Mezalka, 21, and agents carrying out the search of his Palm Coast home Tuesday saw him use the sword to stab his computer through the console, The Dayton
May 17, 2012
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Man pickets over all-you-can-eat fish fry
A Wisconsin man said he will picket a restaurant every Sunday until its all-you-can-eat fish fry lives up to its name. (YouTube)Bill Wisth, who stands at 6-foot-6 and weighs 350 pounds, said he went to the all-you-can-eat fish fry Friday at Chuck's Place in Thiensville and was angered when the restaurant cut him off after he downed a dozen pieces of fish, WTMJ-TV, Milwaukee, reported Tuesday."It's
May 17, 2012
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Naked man witnessed cruising down street
A man witnessed walking down the street naked in Einfield, north London in May 3, 2012.A man wearing only boots and socks walking down the street has been caught on footage and is drawing a mixture of shocked and amused reactions on the Internet.The mystery man, estimated to be around 176 meters tall and in his forties, strolls down the street in the video clip seemingly without a care in the worl
May 17, 2012
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Man stabbed, allegedly after viewing porn
A 46-year-old man was arrested after police said he stabbed another man in the chest at a New York City library because the man was watching porn on a computer. (MCT)Police sources said Ralph Neptune, who is homeless, was with his wife at the Brooklyn Heights branch of the Brooklyn Public Library when he saw porn on the 52-year-old victim‘s screen about 7:20 p.m. Tuesday, the New York Daily News r
May 17, 2012
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Bear walks off with 50-pound bag of seeds
A Wisconsin homeowner said a bear was able to break through a garage window and walk off with a 50-pound bag of sunflower seeds without puncturing the bag.Randy Murray of Lincoln County said he discovered a garage window was broken last week and further investigation revealed his large bag of sunflower seeds was missing, WAOW-TV, Wausau, reported Wednesday.“Must have been a crack in one of the win
May 17, 2012
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr's estranged wife found dead
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s estranged wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy, who had fought drug and alcohol problems, was found dead in her home Wednesday.Attorney Kerry Lawrence, who had represented her in a drunken-driving case, said he didn't know the cause of her death at age 52. An autopsy was scheduled for Thursday.Police confirmed a body was found on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s property in Bedford, north
May 17, 2012
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15 civilians 'summarily executed' in Syria's Homs: NGO
BEIRUT (AFP) - At least 15 civilians were "summarily executed" by regime forces in a neighbourhood of the central Syrian city of Homs overnight, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Wednesday."After regime forces raided the neighbourhood of Shammas, 15 civilians were found summarily executed," Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Britain-based watchdog told AFP, qualifying the killings a "mas
May 16, 2012
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Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes dies
MEXICO CITY (AP) ― Author Carlos Fuentes, who played a dominant role in Latin America’s novel-writing boom by delving into the failed ideals of the Mexican revolution, died Tuesday in a Mexico City hospital. He was 83. Fuentes died at the Angeles del Pedregal hospital where he was taken after his personal doctor, Arturo Ballesteros, found him in shock in his Mexico City home. Ballesteros told reporters outside the hospital that the writer had a sudden internal hemorrhage that caused him to lose
May 16, 2012