JOPLIN, Missouri (AP) - Rescuers refused to be deterred from their efforts to find survivors beneath Joplin's jagged piles of tornado rubble, even as the death toll rose Wednesday to 125. No new survivors had been pulled from the city's wrecked neighborhoods, but determined crews carried on with the search, checking some areas for a fourth time since Sunday's disaster. They planned to do a fifth...

SEOUL, (Yonhap) -- The U.S. military in South Korea will use ground-penetrating radar devices next week for tests of soil on one of its bases in the South where large amounts of the toxic chemical Ag...lly buried in the 1970s, the chief investigator in the claims said Thursday. South Korea and the U.S. launched a joint probe last week following the allegations by American veterans that U.S. Forces ...

... from a sports lottery by arranging game scores, the report said. According to Changwon Prosecutor’s Office, at least two soccer players received cash from them during the 2011 Rush and Cash Cup, whi...m of money” from the match fixing, but it did not specify the amount, the report said. “Because it’s just an early phase of the investigation, we have not yet confirmed all the details of the case. N...

Amid confirmation that the U.S. military dumped toxic chemicals on Korean soil in 1978, a new testimony has surfaced, saying that orders were given to remove all supplies of dioxins in Korea around t...upplies of dioxin from warehouses throughout all the 2nd Division,” said Larry Anderson, a former U.S. soldier with the 2ID from 1977-1978. The testimony further escalates the nation’s already height...

... ruling Grand National Party legislators over policy directions intensified Wednesday, as the party’s new leaders pushed forward a plan to reduce college tuition fees despite resistance from the old g...t Lee and the GNP old guard, for their part, worry recent moves by reformists risk losing the party’s traditional conservative supporters, as they can be seen as a departure from the party’s conservat...

...Kim, who suffered a stroke in 2008, crossed the border into China on Friday before heading to China’s northeastern city of Mudanjiang where he toured a park and a lake that signify the anti-Japanese m...ities indicate that his health is on a recovery curve. In a string of photos released by the North’s official media, the iron-fisted and reclusive ruler looked fatter than in the past and was even se...

Samsung Electronics said Wednesday it will send product samples to Apple’s legal team within 30 days after a U.S. court gave the order in a ruling over a patent dispute last week. “We don’t find it ...G and the 4G LTE Droid Charge. Apple reportedly claims that its rival Samsung, which is also the U.S.-based firm’s component supplier, “designed products confusingly similar to Apple’s iPad, iPod Tou...

SK Telecom, the country’s top mobile carrier, said Wednesday it will aggressively enter overseas markets, such as China and Japan, by opening its application store to customers there. SKT’s T-Store content and applications will be sold through a shop-in-shop form within the Mobile Market, which is China Mobile’s application store, beginning in July, its officials said. The company also signed a...