Mothers of a husband and wife don’t typically get along, but two in Gwangju appear thick as thieves after they were arrested for theft. The surnamed Baek and Ahn are accused of stealing money and valuables from a clothing shop while pretending to be customers on Aug. 11. They are also suspected of stealing 700,000 won ($642) in cash and a wallet from another clothing store in Jiwon-dong, Gwangj...

A Swedish man was arrested after attempting to set up a nuclear reactor at home and test if he can split atoms in his kitchen, according to the Telegraph. Richard Handl, 31, had tried for months to conduct such experiments at home, allegedly as a hobby, keeping records of them on a blog. When he realized his experiments might not be legal, he sent a question to Sweden’s Radiation Authority, whi...

A pet fish which had been only fed with Kit Kat bars is to be put on a diet by London’s Sea Life Aquarium, according to reports. When Gary, a 40-cm-long giant gourami native to South East Asia, first came to the new aquarium, staffs were puzzled by the fish’s refusal to eat. It was later revealed that the previous owner had fed Gary with only Kit Kat bars, which is a candy brand produced by Nes...

Fans dedicated a Facebook group to a local celebrity to make him the town’s official Olympic torch bearer, according to reports. Gordon Roberts from Bournemouth, England, is getting the support of 4,500 people who plan to nominate him as their “inspirational member of the community.” With his trademark white beard, scarf and jacket, the 82-year-old is known as a “big part of the community and ...

GLENDALE, California (AP) -- A man stuck a butter knife into his belly in a failed bid at self-surgery to remove a painful hernia, police said Tuesday. The wife of the 63-year-old Glendale man called paramedics on Sunday night and told the emergency operator her husband was using a knife to remove a protruding hernia, Sgt. Tom Lorenz said. “She said he had impaled himself with a knife,” Lorenz ...

CAPE TOWN, July 24, 2011 (AFP) - A 50-year-old South African man thought to be dead woke up in a chilly morgue on Sunday and shouted to be let out, scaring off two attendants who thought he was a ghost, local media reported. "His family thought he had died," health spokesman Sizwe Kupelo told the Sapa news agency. "The family called a private undertaker who took what they thought was a dead bod...

A wallet has been returned to its owner one week after being lost -- with a winning lottery ticket still inside. The winner is said to have bought 10 pension-type lottery tickets, handing them out to friends and keeping just one. After getting drunk, however, he lost his bag with the wallet inside. Luckily, he was able to get the belongings back a week after the announcement of the winner. The...

국내에서는 1위 무선통신사업자인 SK 텔레콤이지만, 유독 해외무대에서는 연이은 고배를 마셨다. 미국과 중국 같은 여러 해외시장에 발을 들여놓으려고 지난 6년 동안 노력해왔지만 대부분이 실패했다. 정만원 SKT 전 대표도 이런 현상을 빗대어 “잃어버린 6년”이란 표현을 썼을 정도다. 국내에서는 우수한 성적을 거두는 SKT가 해외시장에서 맥을 추스르지 못하는 이유는 해외시장에 대한 이해부족과 과감한 재정적인 투자가 뒷받침이 되지 않았기 때문이라고 전문가들은 얘기한다. “통신망이라는 게 국가적인 재산인데 성공하기가 쉽지 않다. 기왕 할거면 엄청난 투자가 들어가야 하는데 그런 부분은 하지 못하면서 퍼포먼스는 빨리 내고 싶어하기 때문”이라고 안재민 키움증권 애널리스트는 말했다. 시장에 대한 이해...

An American woman named Karen Butler went to the dentist to remove several teeth and came out speaking a foreign -- slightly Irish -- accent. She is believed to be suffering from a rare neurological disorder called foreign accent syndrome (FAS). This complication was first diagnosed in Norway in 1941 when a woman was hit by shrapnel from an air raid in World War II. Since then, there have only b...

Local police in Essex, Britain, came under fire after they ignored 100 text messages by a man threatening to kill his ex-partner. He shot the woman and their 2-year-old dead in their home on Sunday, according to Daily Mail Online. The killer also shoved his shotgun into the mouth of her 10-year-old daughter, who saved her life by climbing through the window onto the kitchen roof, according to t...