...r lavish activities like surfing and yachting. On the bottom of list was “GetFit at Enrichment,” a sports camp in Pennsylvania that costs “only” $1,715 per week. It is typical for children in the U.S. to participate in different kinds of camps during summer break including arts, sports or other forms of special education. Programs hosted by Ivy League schools are especially popular for those see...

...famous hacker group Anonymous launched Monday its own social network after being rejected by Google's freshly-launched online community. "Today we welcome you to begin anew," the hacker alliance said...Visa, Mastercard and Paypal, which blocked donations to WikiLeaks after it published thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables. Early this year, Anonymous took credit for breaking into the website of HBGar...

A man in Gwangju was charged with stealing his wife’s car from their apartment parking lot, the police said Tuesday. The man identified by his surname Oh was in deep debt and decided to put his wife’s car up as collateral for a 12 million won ($11,000) loan. Oh’s wife noticed a week later that her car -- worth 35 million won --was missing. Once she reported the missing automobile, police spott...

...nt to pay honor to our country and embrace their balls," added Timberlake, who starred in last year's Oscar-winning Facebook movie "The Social Network." The story started when a Marine Sgt. Scott Moo..., 90, was invited to a marine ball by Sgt. Ray Lewis, who has served in Afghanistan and Iraq. "She's funny, she's sweet, she's mature, she's the all around perfect woman," Lewis says in the YouTube v...

LONDON (AP) -- Police say Sean Hoare, the whistleblower reporter who alleged widespread hacking at the News of the World, has been found dead. Police said Hoare's death at his home in England was not considered to be suspicious, according to Britain's Press Association news agency. Hoare was quoted by The New York Times as saying that phone-hacking was widely used and even encouraged at the New...

The employment rate among South Korean women in their 50s hit the highest level in decades in the second quarter, as many females joined the workforce to meet growing education and living costs, data...peaked at 60.1 percent. The employment rate exceeded the corresponding figure for those in their 20s, which stayed at 58.9 percent in the second quarter, the data showed. The hike is attributed to g...

...ing in foreign currency bonds issued to convert dollars into the won," Kim Han-soo, head of the BOK's international planning and coordination team, told reporters. He said over the long haul, the mov...pward pressure on the local currency. The Korean currency has appreciated nearly 7 percent to the U.S. dollar since January. The sale of kimchi bonds reached $17.05 billion as of the end of June, up ...

South Korea's state auditor is expected to conduct a special probe as early as later this month to determine the cause behind the frequent malfunctions involving the country's high-speed trains, an official source said Monday. The source said Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI) chairman Yang Kun stressed at a meeting of senior officials that there is a need for a full and detailed examination in...

Foreign investors are expected to scoop more than half of the coming dividends at Korea’s four major financial holdings companies this year, spurring concerns about capital flight in the industry inc...shareholder of Korea Exchange Bank, recouped billions of dollars in dividends against the regulator’s efforts to sto capital flight. The nation’s sixth-largest bank, owned by the Dallas-based company...

...r employees set up a trade union. The company, which is an affiliate of Samsung Group, South Korea's largest family-owned conglomerate, said Cho Jang-hee, the vice chairman of the union, has been dis...role in establishing the union. Workers applied for the trade union last Wednesday with the country's labor ministry, the first such move within the business group in more than three decades. Samsung...