WASHINGTON ― When there’s political upheaval in Tehran, it’s often interwoven with the explosive question of possible outreach to the United States. And that may be the case with a recent feud betwee...tion. That’s likely one explanation for U.S. wariness about Mashaei’s overtures. “The history of U.S.-Iranian relations is littered with corpses of failed contacts, where the U.S. was talking with a ...

...YORK ― The annual spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund was notable in marking the fund’s effort to distance itself from its own long-standing tenets on capital controls and labor-market f... to the crisis by imposing capital controls could help small countries manage its impact. And the U.S. Federal Reserve’s “quantitative easing” made the demise of the ideology of unfettered markets ine...

...France only. In November, Michelin Guide Korea will be released in English. Written in French and sold for 25 euros ($36), the book will also provide details on the Korean Wave, hallyu stars, France’s return of Korea’s ancient royal books, Korea’s “Green New Deal Policy” and the often-misunderstood dog meat-eating culture. The publication in France comes as Korean culture, including K-pop, is becoming increasingl...

...ronics chairman Lee Kun-hee has started to show up at Samsung offices on a regular basis, the group’s art sector is getting ready to engage more in the local art scene. Rodin Gallery, one of the thre...e best-known of Samsung’s art museums, resumed exhibitions last year. As expected, Hong Ra-hee, Lee’s wife, soon returned as the museum’s director in March, just in time for the big-scale ongoing exhi...

...swept over China, Japan and much of Southeast Asia at the beginning of the last decade. Tiny, landlocked and with a population of less than three million, Manipur borders Myanmar and is one of India’s “Seven Sisters” ― seven northeastern states connected to the rest of India by a sliver of land that arches over Bangladesh. In the 1970s, 80s and 90s, entertainment for Manipuris was largely supplied by India’s dominant cultural force, Bollywood. But then in 2000, a number of the multiple armed secessionist groups that have been act...

...aid during a press conference at Lotte Hotel in Sogong-dong, central Seoul. On Monday, the country’s first Olympic gold medalist signed a sponsorship deal with FILA Korea. Park, who won gold in the ...ven medals, including three golds at the Asian Games. Park, 22, is at his peak now and this summer’s competition could be another victorious stage for him. The Olympic medalist said that he was aimi...

South Korean figure skating star Kim Yu-na will make a pitch to International Olympic Committee members next week for Pyeong-Chang’s 2018 Olympics bid, the bid committee announced Sunday. The figure skating champion has been working with PyeongChang’s 2018 bid committee as a member of the bid’s athletes committee and she will make her debut presentation for the city’s bid campaign at the IOC tec...

...record 19th English championship crown after beating title rival Chelsea 2-1 Sunday. Alex Ferguson’s team is six points ahead of Chelsea with two games to go and will regain the Premier League trophy...burn and Blackpool if Chelsea doesn’t get a maximum of six points from its remaining fixtures. “It’s a massive step forward, mathematically it’s not done, but we are nearly there and we need to finis...

BALTIMORE (AP) -- The very travels that inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and shaped modern biology may have led to one of the illnesses that plagued the British naturalist for decades an...ments that affected so much of his life,'' Mackowiak said. The information used to evaluate Darwin's case came from several sources, Mackowiak said, including the naturalist's own letters, in which h...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A Canadian tourist reported missing since mid-March has been found alive in a remote wilderness area of the western United States and is recovering, police told AFP on Saturday. (관련기사) 오지에 7주간 고립됐다 기적 생환 캐나다 브리티시 컬럼비아(BC) 주의 한 50 대 여성이 미국의 두메 산골을 여행하던 중 자동차가 진흙 길에 빠지는 바람에 고립 됐다가 7주일 만에 구조돼 기적적으로 생환했다. 8일 캐나다 언론들에 따르면 BC주 펜팅턴에 사는 리타 크레티엥(56) 씨는 미국 네바다주와 아이다호주 경계 지역인 산간 벌목지 도...

...donesia and Scandanavian countries, a Malaysian official said Saturday. Women playing in the sport's top tournaments are compelled to wear skirts or dresses, even if they are worn over the top of sho...after an outcry from players and officials. "There is a possibility a rule change can take place," S. Selvam, the federation's Super Series marketing manager told AFP, noting that objections started ...

Lee Hoi-chang, leader of the conservative minority Liberty Forward Party, offered his resignation on Monday, in an attempt to catalyze the party’s reform moves. “Our party is to face up to the ongoing changes within the political circles,” Lee said. Lee, who has held the LFP leader post since 2008, also suggested that the party organize an emergency panel to fill his role until a new leadership...