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Army stint helped cleanse Indians’ Choo

BaseballMar 1, 2012

GOODYEAR, Arizona (AP) ― Choo Shin-soo found inner peace in a most unexpected place. While taking basic training during the offseason with the South Korean military, the Indians outfielder was required to go on 16-mile hikes while carrying 55 pounds of weight in his backpack. It was during these physically grueling exercises where the 29-year-old finally healed the pain of a troubling year. As ...
Korea beats Kuwait to advance to final round of 2014 WC qualifying

SoccerMar 1, 2012

South Korea advanced to the final round of the Asian qualifiers for the 2014 World Cup with a 2-0 win over visiting Kuwait at Seoul World Cup stadium on Wednesday. Striker Lee Dong-gook scored the opener in the second half before Lee Keun-ho doubled the lead to ensure manager Choi Kang-hee’s second victory since his appointment. Choi, who took the helm of the Taegeuk Warriors in December, prais...
340-ton boulder begins trek to museum

Mar 1, 2012

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (UPI) -- The 340-ton granite boulder chosen to be part of a Los Angeles County Museum of Art installation has completed the first 5 miles of its 106-mile journey. Mark Albrecht, project manager Emmert International, which is handling transportation of the massive rock, said the boulder left the Stone Valley quarry in Riverside Tuesday night and came to rest early Wednesday abou...
Lady Gaga at Harvard, launches youth foundation

PeopleMar 1, 2012

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- Pop star Lady Gaga descended on Harvard University with some powerful friends Wednesday to launch her new foundation aimed at empowering young people. The singer was joined by Oprah Winfrey, spiritual leader Deepak Chopra, and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to kick off the Born This Way Foundation that Gaga's mother and inspiration will help steer....
DUP mired in candidate nomination feuds

PoliticsMar 1, 2012

Mobile voting irregularities escalate; Ex-DP figures denounce nominations The main opposition Democratic United Party continues to grapple with internal and external feuds over its nomination processes with just weeks left until candidate registration for the April general elections. The party was recently shaken by the suspicions that its members attempted to collect smartphone voters inapprop...
Police to question prosecutor over judge’s influence-peddling

Social affairsMar 1, 2012

Judge allegedly asked for probe over slander of politician wife Police are considering whether to question a prosecutor over allegations that she had been asked by a judge to indict a citizen who slandered his wife, who was a ruling party lawmaker. If the judge is found to have peddled his influence, which is a serious offense, he may be stripped of his position. According to media reports, po...
Dinosaurs had fleas too -- giant ones, fossils show

ScienceMar 1, 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the Jurassic era, even the flea was a beast, compared to its minuscule modern descendants. These pesky bloodsuckers were nearly an inch (25 millimeters) long. New fossils found in China are evidence of the oldest fleas _ from 125 million to 165 million years ago, said Diying Huang of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology. Their disproportionately long proboscis,...
Lee renews appeal to Japan to resolve comfort women issue

Foreign affairsMar 1, 2012

President Lee Myung-bak renewed his appeal to Japan Thursday to redress long-running grievances over the country's wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women, saying the issue is an urgent humanitarian matter. Lee made the remarks during a speech at a ceremony commemorating Korea's 1919 nationwide uprising, known as the March 1st Independence Movement, against Japan's 1910 colonization of the Ko...
At least nine dead as tornadoes strike US midwest

World NewsMar 1, 2012

HARRISBURG, Illinois (AFP) - A deadly string of tornadoes cut a swath of destruction across the US midwest, killing at least nine people and threatening scores more as a massive storm pushed eastward Wednesday. Homes were smashed to bits, cars were tossed into lakes, huge trees were torn from ground and shops were reduced to rubble in towns from Nebraska to Kentucky as the powerful system whippe...
Deadly violence rocks China’s restive Xinjiang

World NewsMar 1, 2012

BEIJING (AFP) - Twenty people died when a group armed with knives attacked a market in Xinjiang, the latest outbreak of violence in the ethnically divided Chinese region, authorities said Wednesday. The motive behind the attack late on Tuesday was not immediately clear, but Xinjiang -- a vast region home to the mainly Muslim Uighur minority -- has suffered repeated outbreaks of ethnic unrest in ...
Apple's market cap tops $500 billion

World BusinessMar 1, 2012

NEW YORK (AFP) -- Apple shares gained $1.31 percent on Wall Street on Monday and the California gadget-maker closed the day with a market capitalization of more than $500 billion. Apple shares ended the day's trading at $542.44, giving the Cupertino, California-based company a market cap -- the number of shares outstanding multiplied by the stock price -- of $504.01 billion. The maker of the iP...
N.K. nuclear envoy could visit U.S.: sources

North KoreaMar 1, 2012

WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) -- A senior North Korean nuclear negotiator could visit the United States for a security forum later this month, diplomatic sources said, as the prospects of resuming six-party nuclear talks rose with the latest disarmament-for-aid deal between the two countries. Washington and Pyongyang simultaneously announced the deal earlier in the day under which Pyongyang promised ...
NK agrees to suspend nuclear activities, allow inspectors

North KoreaFeb 29, 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) _ The United States said Wednesday North Korea has agreed to suspend nuclear activities and a moratorium on nuclear, and long-range missile tests in a breakthrough in negotiations with the secretive communist nation. The announcement comes little more than two months after the death of longtime ruler Kim Jong Il, and suggests North Korea has met the key U.S. preconditions for res...
‘N.K. says will halt uranium enrichment in exchange for aid'

North KoreaFeb 29, 2012

North Korea has offered to halt its uranium enrichment program in exchange for possibly larger grain proportions in the previously-floated 240,000 tons of nutritional assistance from the U.S., sources said Wednesday. The U.S. Department of State announced Wednesday the results of the third round of talks between Washington’s top envoy on North Korea Glyn Davies and North Korea’s Vice Foreign Min...
S. Korea beats Kuwait, reaches next round in World Cup qualification

SoccerFeb 29, 2012

South Korea will live to see another day of football. South Korea defeated Kuwait 2-0 in a World Cup qualifying match at Seoul World Cup Stadium Wednesday, powered by two second-half scores. With the win, South Korea advanced to the fourth and the final round of the Asian qualifying round for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. It ended the third round as the top seed in Group B with 13 points. ...