...g through social networking systems, the Daily Mail reported. According to the research conducted by computing company Bullguard Internet Security, about 40 percent of parents monitor their children’s status updates and posts on their wall. Social networking systems such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter have become widely popular with 75 percent of 16 to 24-year-olds reportedly having posted mes...

A man crashed into mother’s house with a light aircraft after making a phone call that he would “drop by.” Konrad Schmidt, a 47 year-old engineer from Switzerland, had attempted a suicide attack with his rented Diamond Aircraft DA42 in his town, located north of Zurich last Saturday. Luckily, the 68 year-old mother survived from the crash because she was in the basement when the incident occurr...

...g lottery tickets, and one of his acquaintances had previously won the top prize. Meanwhile, the new pension-type game issued by the Korea Union Lottery is only three weeks old, with the third round’s results announced Wednesday. The winner for the first round had won the first and second place together, which also had captured the public’s attention. By Kang Yoon-seung (koreacolin@gmail.com) Edited by Rob York 잃어버린 지갑속에 복권.. 1등 당첨돼 잃어 버렸다가 되찾은 지갑에 1등 당첨 복권이 들어있는 놀라운 일이 발생했다. 제 2회 연금복권520 당첨자는 복권 10장을 산 뒤, 지인들에게 나누어 주고 술을 마신 뒤 실수...

The Renault Group will appoint Francois Provost, the French carmaker’s deputy managing director in Russia, to head Renault Samsung Motors on Sept. 1, an official at Renault Samsung Motors said Thursday. Provost will replace Renault Samsung’s current CEO Jean-Marie Hurtiger, who took the Seoul office in May 2006. “Renault Samsung will have new leader effective Sept. 1. Francois Provost will tran...

...coat-free and thus lower their fertility, an international research team reported Wednesday. Today's reproductive tests cannot spot the problem, said study co-author Dr. Theodore Tollner of the Unive...xplains only a fraction of infertility. The California-led team found a new reason, a protein that's part of a family of germ-killing molecules found on the surfaces of a variety of tissues. It's sec...

The National Tax Service said on Thursday it has requested the country’s major Internet portals such as Naver and Daum to provide personal information about some 1,300 influential bloggers. The tax agency’s move comes as a growing number of local bloggers with a large pool of readers get enmeshed in money-for-article scandals. Recently, a high-profile blogger who belongs to the country’s largest...

...ning with a simple statement: “I will formally end my career.” He promised, though, that he wouldn’t stay far away from the sport that made him a household name in China. His impact expanded the NBA’s influence into the world’s most populous country, creating lucrative merchandise sales for the league and TV ratings that skyrocketed whenever the Rockets played. The 7-foot-6 (2.29-meter) Yao played eight seasons in the NBA...

WASHINGTON (AFP) – U.S. President Barack Obama met separately Wednesday with his top Democratic allies and Republican foes to hammer out a compromise that would avert a disastrous early August debt d...se the debt ceiling but only to buy time as part of a broader arrangement to slash the ballooning U.S. deficit. "We would not support a short-term extension absent an agreement to a larger deal," sai...

...hold a giveaway next month. Organizers are inviting people to make financial donations to the club’s biggest pay-it-forward event to date. The movement aims to spread goodwill by performing small act... for others. A group of around 25 regular members is to hand out a variety of small gifts in Seoul’s Hongdae area from 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 6. The kind-hearted volunteers are to play carnival wheel gam...

...onfidence on both sides that such a common line can be worked out this evening (Wednesday)," Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert said earlier. "This is uncharted territory for all those involved. But ...has pressed for private investors, not just taxpayers, to pay for some of what will be the eurozone's fourth rescue package. But Germany, the eurozone's paymaster, backed by Finland and the Netherlan...