At least 52 people were injured in a 47-car pileup on Interstate 75 south of Tampa Bay, law enforcement officials said.The Florida Highway Patrol said at least seven separate crashes were part of the Friday afternoon pileup, which blocked the southbound lanes of the highway for 6 hours, the Bradenton (Fla.) Herald reported.At least two people were transported to hospitals by helicopter, but their

World News Oct. 8, 2012

South Korean rapper-singer Psy has topped a Chinese online music chart, as the popularity of his global hit "Gangnam Style" spills over into the world's most populous country, a Web site showed Monday."Gangnam Style" ranked No. 1 on the music search service of China's largest search engine, Baidu. The song has caught on with fans in China after Psy's popularity spread from the United States, where

Performance Oct. 8, 2012

The White House sought Sunday to limit the impact of a new missile deal with South Korea to its global nonproliferation efforts and regional security conditions in which China plays a growing role."The ROK's new missile guidelines are designed to improve the Republic of Korea's ability to defend against DPRK ballistic missiles," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters."The revisions

Defense Oct. 8, 2012

South Korea plans to complete the deployment of new ballistic missiles with ranges of 550 and 800 kilometers in five years, a government source here said Monday, a follow-up measure for a revised missile agreement with the United States aimed at deterring threats from North Korea. (Yonhap News)

Defense Oct. 8, 2012

North Korea saw its trading volume with China surge at a far higher rate than those with other trading partners last year, a parliamentary report showed Monday, indicating the communist country's rising dependency on China.Trading volume between the North and China reached US$3.54 billion in the first seven months of this year, growing 14.5 percent from the corresponding figure for the same period

North Korea Oct. 8, 2012

Japan's central bank has ended its latest policy meeting Friday with no change in the country's key interest rate, resisting government pressure for further easing. The Bank of Japan said in a statement Friday that it expected the world's third-largest economy to “level off” for now, with inflation at about 0 percent. In a rare move, the government's national policy minister, Seiji Maehara, told r

World Business Oct. 5, 2012

A young woman with terminal cancer has asked a New York judge to allow her to be removed from life support, a move her parents oppose. Grace Sung Eun Lee's parents testified Wednesday they still hope God will save their daughter's life, the New York Daily News reported. Her father, the Rev. Manho Lee, is the minister of Antioch Missionary Church in the borough of Queens, and the parents also said

Social Affairs Oct. 5, 2012

South Korean stocks opened higher on Friday, fueled by firm gains in technology shares, analysts said.The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) climbed 7.39 points, or 0.37 percent, to 2000.07 in the first 15 minutes of trading.Big-cap tech firms drove up shares, with market bellwether Samsung Electronics rising 0.51 percent and SK hynix gaining 1.08 percent.Samsung Electronics, the

Oct. 5, 2012

Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest technology company by revenue, estimated Friday that it posted a record operating profit of 8.1 trillion won (US$7.3 billion) in the third quarter of the year.The preliminary estimate for the July-September period marked a 90.6 percent surge from 4.3 trillion won a year earlier and a 20.5 percent gain from the previous quarter, the company said in a reg

Industry Oct. 5, 2012

The ruling and opposition parties clashed Thursday over a presidential office request to renegotiate the appointment of two special counsel candidates tasked with re-investigating allegations of state funds being misused to buy land for President Lee Myung-bak's retirement home.The presidential office Cheong Wa Dae urged political parties to follow the letter of a pact on the appointment of candid

Politics Oct. 4, 2012