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August 25, 2012 World News

Cruise to pay Holmes $400,000 annual child support: report

In this Feb. 26, 2012 file photo, actors Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar party, in West Hollywood, California. (AP-Yonhap News) U.S. actress Katie Holmes's divorce agreem...

Pro baseball league sets single-season attendance record

The nation's top professional baseball league on Tuesday established a new single-season attendance record. The Korea Baseball Organization said through Tuesday's games, 6,810,926 fans have gone to ...

September 25, 2012
Baseball
U.S. envoy King meets Seoul's defector-turned-lawmaker

The special U.S. envoy for North Korean human rights met with South Korea's ruling party lawmaker who originally comes from the North, an informed source said Tuesday. The meeting between Amb. Rober...

September 25, 2012
North Korea
Seoul-led green growth think tank to become int'l body next month

The Pacific island nation of Kiribati has become the third signatory to ratify an agreement to convert a South Korea-established think tank on green growth into an official international organization...

September 18, 2012
Foreign Affairs
Three Japanese sued for defamation over provocative 'Dokdo' stakes

A South Korean history institute has filed a defamation suit against three Japanese accused of setting up provocative wooden stakes in downtown Seoul last month to lay claim to Dokdo, police said Tue...

September 18, 2012
Social affairs
Baseball veteran Jang Sung-ho reaches 2,000 career hits

Veteran first baseman Jang Sung-ho of the Hanwha Eagles on Tuesday became the third player to reach 2,000 career hits in the nation's top baseball league. In the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) ac...

September 18, 2012
Baseball
Korea raises minimum household living cost by 3.4 pct

The government said Tuesday it has decided to raise the minimum cost of living for a four-member household by 3.4 percent to 1.55 million won ($1,365) next year in a bid to increase support for low-i...

August 28, 2012
Social affairs
Umbrella union calls for nationwide strike

Korea's largest umbrella union said Tuesday that it has called for a nationwide strike to push for an end to irregular workers and the revision of existing labor laws. The walkouts are expected to a...

August 28, 2012
Social affairs
N. Korea cancels talks with S. Korean aid organization

North Korea on Tuesday unilaterally canceled plans to hold talks with two South Korean aid organizations that had planned to visit the communist country to discuss humanitarian assistance for flood v...

August 28, 2012
North Korea
Samsung to contest U.S. verdict in favor of Apple

South Korea's Samsung Electronics said Saturday it will contest a U.S. court ruling that it must pay rival technology giant Apple damages of more than $1 billion for patent violations. "We will move...

August 25, 2012
Technology
Psy to visit U.S. again next month

Korean rapper Psy said Saturday lots of good things look likely to happen for him, returning from a 10-day trip to the United States to discuss working in collaboration with Justin Bieber's managemen...

August 25, 2012
Apple-Samsung jury may have leaned on engineer, patent holder

Jurors who zipped through more than 600 questions in three days to arrive at their verdict in the intellectual-property battle between Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. had as their leader an en...

August 25, 2012
Technology
Korea plans to conduct Dokdo defense drills early next month

The South Korean military plans to conduct regular military exercises in waters near the easternmost islets of Dokdo early next month but they may be delayed because of increased tension over Japan's...

August 25, 2012
Defense
Android in jeopardy after Samsung's loss to Apple in suit

Samsung's loss Friday in a U.S. lawsuit brought by Apple Inc. has set an amber light before the future of the Google-backed Android operating system. More than a year of courtroom fights between Sam...

August 25, 2012
Technology
Semen prompts ovulation in females

(123rf) A protein in semen acts on the female brain to prompt ovulation and the same molecule regulates growth and nerve cell survival, Canadian researchers say. Gregg Adams of the University of Sa...

August 25, 2012
Science

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