...eping investigation into Internet users carrying out anti-state acts including praising North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-il, its military and society, officials said Tuesday. The move comes as the numbe...nvestigators. Last month, the prosecution investigated another man who allegedly praised the North’s “military-first” principle through his online postings, and exchanged email messages glorifying it...

...of Las Cruces, Chile. Its host organism is unknown. DNA viruses include pox viruses and herpes viruses, but M. chilensis "doesn't seem to be harmful for humans," said Jean-Michel Claverie, of France's National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). The study appears in a US journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). 세계 최대 '메가바이러스' 발견 세상에서 가장 큰 바이러스가 칠레 해상에서 발견됐다. 일반 바이러스...

...emerovo region administration said in a press-release. The expedition was organised after Kemerovo's governor invited researchers from the United States, Canada, and several other countries to share ... holds a population of yetis, which it calls Snow Men, in remote areas of Siberia. Kemerovo region's Shoria is a sparsely populated territory in Western Siberia that has historically been a territory...

South Korea has named a former senior official on North Korean affairs as new head of a committee overseeing a joint factory park in North Korea. Hong Yang-ho, former vice minister of Seoul’s Unification Ministry from 2008-2010, will lead the Gaeseong Industrial District Management Committee for three years, the ministry said. Officials said Hong may serve consecutive terms. The Unification Min...

...China, this is the first time the games will be played in North Asia, something Seoul Gaels’ chairman Joe Trolan thinks will be a refreshing change. “Normally we go to Thailand or somewhere where it’s hot and humid and sticky,” he says. “Here, it’s perfect weather for a sporting event.” Trolan thinks that home advantage might also give the Korean teams an edge. The Seoul Gaels’ men’s gaelic football team have not won the tournament since the mid 2000s. The women’s team has been to three finals in the last four years. “Unfortunately they’ve lost them all, but they’re due a win, ...

...le co-founder Steve Jobs was made public on Monday as a private memorial was planned at the company’s Silicon Valley headquarters for employees. Local public health officials reportedly determined th... tribute to Jobs on Oct. 19 at a private event to be held at an outdoor amphitheater at the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, California. “We are planning a celebration of Steve’s extraordinary li...

TRIPOLI (AP) ― An official on Libya’s governing council said Monday that he believes Moammar Gadhafi is hiding in the southwestern desert near the borders with Niger and Algeria, but denied allegatio...fe passage through Niger to Mali, where he allegedly has a house in Timbuktu. Niger has put Gadhafi’s son al-Saadi under house arrest. There has been much speculation about Gadhafi’s whereabouts sinc...