When life is hard, people seek solace from whatever source they can find, and if a market trend is any indication, more and more South Koreans are turning to books for mental healing. Psychiatrist Kim Hye-nam became an instant celebrity with her book, whose title roughly translates as “Thirty-year-olds Ask Psychology.” It sold 600,000 copies and became a bestseller, a very rare feat for psychoth...

PARIS (AP) — Their early courtship was hardly discreet: President Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni visited Disneyland Paris together, then jetted off to Jordan with cameras in tow. Weeks later, they were married. Now, Bruni-Sarkozy is about to have a baby, and the pending birth has taken on the air of a state secret — revealing the caution within Sarkozy's political team as the unpopular presiden...

SEOUL (Yonhap) -- The number of wealthy South Koreans with assets of more than 1 trillion won ($852 million) rose 32 percent this year from a year earlier with two self-made businessmen making the top 10 list for the first time, data showed Monday. The number of Koreans whose wealth topped 1 trillion won reached 25 this year, up from 19 tallied in 2010, according to the data by research firm Cha...

SAN MARTIN, California (AP) -- A strange year for Tiger Woods took another bizarre twist Sunday when a fan was arrested for running toward the seventh green at CordeValle and tossing a hot dog in Woods' direction. The bun barely reached the green. The hot dog landed on the putting surface. The 31-year-old man, whose name wasn't released, dropped to the ground to be arrested as Santa Clara sheri...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Men finally may be getting a clearer message about undergoing PSA screening for prostate cancer: Don‘t do it. They may not listen. After all, the vast majority of men over 50 already get tested. The idea that finding cancer early can harm instead of help is a hard one to understand. But it’s at the heart of a government panel‘s draft recommendation that those PSA blood tests s...

LONDON (AP) -- Former Beatle Paul McCartney and American heiress Nancy Shevell were married on Sunday, emerging joyously from a 45-minute civil ceremony to be showered with confetti from fans. The pop icon raised his bride's arm in triumph as they blew kisses to the hundreds of fans and paparazzi waiting on the steps of the Old Marylebone Town Hall for the big event. Shevell, with a white flowe...

President Lee Myung-bak and first lady Kim Yoon-ok are planning to reside in a tranquil village on Seoul's southern outskirts after his term ends in 2013, instead of his private home in Nonhyun-dong, a bustling neighborhood in the center of the capital's southern district, a presidential aide said Sunday. The aide said the president has recently bought a lot in Naegok-dong, a rustic area located...

The two top candidates for Seoul mayor rushed to gain an upper hand over the weekend as soon as the official candidate registration ended. Park Won-soon, independent and sole candidate representing the liberal bloc, is to introduce his campaign on Monday consisting of figures from all three opposition parties plus left-wing civic groups. He has especially reached out to the main opposition Demo...