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'Uncensored' Playboy coming to iPad: Hefner

InternationalJan 20, 2011

WASHINGTON - Playboy founder Hugh Hefner is bringing his iconic men's magazine to the iPad. The octogenarian publisher, in a message on his Twitter feed, @hughhefner, said current and back issues of...
Pirates take 1,181 hostages in 2010

InternationalJan 20, 2011

NAIROBI (AP) ― Pirates captured a record 1,181 hostages in 2010 ― almost all of them off the Somali coast ― during a year in which hijackings and attacks became more violent, a global maritime watchd...
Retired teacher, 52, takes 18-year-old former student as his fourth wife

Social affairsJan 20, 2011

Clive Richards and Jessica Anderson married in a register office last September. (captured from the Daily Mail) A retired religious education teacher has married for the fourth time to an 18-year-ol...
S. Korea positive on outcome of U.S.-China summit

PoliticsJan 20, 2011

South Korea appreciates the outcome of the U.S.-China summit, an official said Thursday, after the high-stakes meeting called for inter-Korean dialogue as an "essential step" in reducing tensions and...
Female politician recruits girls for Berlusconi: report

InternationalJan 20, 2011

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his estranged wife Veronica (AP) Citing an allegation from a court document, the British Daily Mail reported Tuesday that women were paid to have sex w...
Obama, Hu call on N. K. to stop provocations

PoliticsJan 20, 2011

WASHINGTON -- The United States and China Wednesday called on North Korea to stop provocations and abide by its denuclearization pledge. U.S. President Obama (right) and Chinese President Hu Jintao ...
Korea to offer online lectures in Southeast Asia

Social affairsJan 19, 2011

Southeast Asian universities will introduce online real-time lectures on Korea’s popular culture, automobile industry and other hallyu content, addressing the lack of professors despite growing globa...
Seoul in talks with U.S. on longer missile range

PoliticsJan 19, 2011

South Korea has recently begun consultations with the U.S. over whether to revise their long-standing missile agreement and allow Seoul to develop longer-range ballistic missiles in order to better s...
GNP lawmakers seek to restrict speaker’s role

PoliticsJan 19, 2011

A group of reformist lawmakers in the ruling Grand National Party on Wednesday submitted a revision bill to curb the National Assembly speaker’s authority in calling for a vote on bills at his own di...
Obama, Hu summit draws attention in Seoul

PoliticsJan 19, 2011

With the U.S. and China expected to try resolving their once complicated relations by emphasizing common goals at their summit this week, South Korea is preparing for any changes which may occur in t...
Seoul to consult ambassadors on international marriages

Social affairsJan 19, 2011

The government has decided to launch a consulting group to discuss international marriage and multicultural policy together with foreign ambassadors here. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family ...
‘Gambling celebrity’ back in Korea to face the music

Social affairsJan 19, 2011

Disgraced TV celebrity Shin Jung-hwan returned to Korea on Wednesday to face investigations at home into allegations he gambled away hundreds of millions of won in the Philippines last year. Setting...
Arrest warrant sought for Taekwang CEO

Social affairsJan 19, 2011

The prosecution Wednesday filed an arrest warrant for Lee Ho-jin, chairman of Taekwang Group, over illegal transfer of wealth, creation of slush funds and breach of trust. The investigation is expec...
China TV shows grisly deaths as lesson

InternationalJan 19, 2011

BEIJING (AFP) ― Pedestrians are flattened by trucks as they walk along China’s highways, cyclists are flipped high in the air by speeding cars and sudden death haunts the anything-goes intersections ...
Iran, world powers to resume nuke talks

InternationalJan 19, 2011

ISTANBUL (AFP) ― Iran and six world powers meet Friday in Istanbul for a second round of talks, amid guarded hope for progress in efforts to settle tensions over Tehran’s disputed nuclear program. T...