Dongbu Robot said Monday it plans to launch robots that impersonate K-pop stars such as Girls’ Generation and Super Junior, by yearend. The South Korean robot maker will form consortium with other robot makers Intelligent & Recreational Robot and Ocean Bridge E&T to develop the high-tech entertainment robots. According to Dongbu, the robot “will be able to fully reenact movements and dances of ...

New media, including social networking services such as Facebook and Twitter, is forging a “digital diplomacy” far different from that of traditional media, said a U.S. government official.

Recent study suggested that Mars’ mantle -- the layer beneath the crust -- may hold an amount of water similar to that of the Earth, Science Daily reported Thursday. The data not only explains why there is evidence of water on the surface of the "Red Planet," but also raises the possibility that it could sustain life, according to Francis McCubbin from the University of New Mexico who led the re...

A prominent Pakistani female singer, Ghazala Javed, was shot to death Monday by two unidentified gunmen, according to local news reports. Initial police investigation indicated that the 24-year-old singer’s ex-husband Jehangir Khan may be behind the attack. Last year, Javed asked him for a divorce, which is considered a dishonor in the highly conservative male-dominated society. However some ar...

A British woman who stole from her boss to pay for her expensive wedding has been sentenced to 20 months in prison, according to news reports. Kirsty Lane, a 30-year-old newly-wed, swindled over 200,000 pounds (360 million won) from her company which she used on her wedding last year. The wedding spared absolutely no expense, providing matching designer boots for the bridal party and a harpist a...

Imagine sitting on the top of the world, with a view of mountains and rivers in front of you. Then imagine plummeting toward the ground the next moment. Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park in Colorado offers an experience closest to plunging hellward, by introducing what it claims to be the world’s highest roller coaster, according to news reports. The “Cliffhanger,” which cost close to $1 million ...

U.S. scientists recently claimed to have found the remains of the legendary lost city of Ciudad Blanca (“White City”) in Honduras, according to news reports. Using laser-based light detection and ranging technique, researchers from the University of Houston and the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping have managed to locate ruins of the ancient city, hidden deep within the jungle for centu...

The anomalous disappearance of neutrons may be explained by their mirror particles in a parallel universe, Italian theoretical physicists claimed. Past experiments showed that the loss rate of some very slow neutrons appeared to depend on the direction and strength of a magnetic field. This left scientists dumbfounded because a neutron, by definition, is a neutral particle. However, a theory by...

British couple is calling for a ban against self-harming sites, after vicious comments from such sites pushed their daughter to take her own life, according to news reports. Their daughter, 15-year-old Rosie Whitaker, was hit by a train on Monday in what authorities presume was a suicide. Whitakers believe the tragedy was triggered by websites that idealizes extremely skinny bodies, and degrades...

Over 7,000 Japanese K-pop fans will visit South Korea late June to attend an event held by boy-band JYJ, its agency said Wednesday. Cjes Entertainment said the 2012 JYJ Membership Week will host 15,000 Korean fans along with 7,024 Japanese fans that will visit Korea to attend the large-scale fan event. “No other Hallyu star has been able to gather such a huge flock of fans in a single event,” c...

She came to America with dreams, and was left with only nightmares. A young South Korean woman who was tricked into sexual slavery described the past six years of her life, which had virtually been a living hell. The victim -- who asked to be identified only as Soo -- said that she came to the U.S. looking for a job and paid her "recruiter" $7,000 (8 million won). But instead of a legitimate j...

Age is just a number. It sounds like a banal catchphrase, but not to 75-year-old Ernestine Shepherd. In 2010, she became the world’s oldest female bodybuilder at the age of 73. Two years later, she shows no sign of slowing down as she participates in bodybuilding contests while teaching others to live a healthy life. Ernestine says she was not always super-fit. “When I was younger, I was neve...

Young people, mostly female, gather inside a small cottage in Kolkata, India. They twist and turn, laughing and joking as they try to dance to the music. It seems like another jolly day at a typical dance class, except for one thing: The participants are all victims of horrific crimes. It is a dance therapy session started by Kolkata Sanved, a human rights organization that uses dance to heal v...