The curtain falls, revealing Boeing's new 747-8 Intercontinental on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011 during the unveiling ceremony for the new airplane at the Boeing plant in Everett, Wash. The airplane is the largest passenger plane built by Boeing. It will be assembled at the Boeing plant in Everett. (Photo: AP-Yonhap).

Feb. 14, 2011

CHUNCHEON, Gangwon Province (Yonhap) -- A record-breaking snowfall pounded South Korea's east coast on Saturday, stranding hundreds of motorists on highways and destroying dozens of houses, officials said.   President Lee Myung-bak ordered the military to help clear waist-high snow that blanketed the area and transport emergency food to isolated residents.   Some sections of a highway linking Seou

Social Affairs Feb. 13, 2011

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — A Malaysian court on Friday charged seven suspected Somali pirates for firing at Malaysian forces during a Gulf of Aden raid to free a hijacked tanker, under laws that carry the death penalty.Malaysia became the first nation in Asia to lay charges against suspected Somali pirates, as part of growing legal moves around the world to deal with the piracy crisis off lawless Somali

International Feb. 12, 2011

CAIRO (AP) - It was the people who forced President Hosni Mubarak from power, but it is the generals who are in charge now. Egypt's 18-day uprising produced a military coup that crept into being over many days — its seeds planted early in the crisis by Mubarak himself.The telltale signs of a coup in the making began to surface soon after Mubarak ordered the army out on the streets to restore order

International Feb. 12, 2011

CAIRO (AP) _ One Egyptian kissed the ground. Another rolled in ecstasy in the grass outside a presidential palace. People wept, jumped, screamed and hugged each other with a shared joy they had never known. Cairo erupted in a cacophony of celebration: fireworks and car horns and gunshots in the air. President Hosni Mubarak resigned and handed power to the military on Friday, and Egypt held its big

International Feb. 12, 2011

GWANGMYEONG -- A high-speed KTX train bound for Seoul from the southern port city of Busan derailed near a Gyeonggi Province station southwest of the capital Friday, but no casualties were reported, the state-run Korea Railroad said. Derailed KTX train near Gwangmyeong Station, southwest of Seoul, Friday. There were no reports of casualties. (Yonhap News)   The incident took place near Gwangmyeong

Social Affairs Feb. 11, 2011

    CAIRO (AFP) - Furious Egyptian demonstrators vowed to launch their most spectacular protest yet in Cairo on Friday to demand the immediate departure of President Hosni Mubarak and his newly anointed deputy.   Many tens of thousands of citizens thronged Tahrir Square in the heart of the capital late Thursday hoping to hear the 82-year-old strongman step down. Instead he delegated presidential p

International Feb. 11, 2011

South Korean police have cracked down on 770 Web sites and blogs selling prostitution while booking thousands for their alleged involvement in sex trafficking, officials said Tuesday.After wrapping up a six-week nationwide bust, the National Police Agency (NPA) said it booked 2,271 people without physical detention and put six under arrest on charges of illegally selling or buying sex.Of them, 1,3

Social Affairs Feb. 10, 2011

  North Korea has reported an outbreak of the livestock foot-and-mouth (FMD) disease on its soil to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Radio Free Asia said in a report on Thursday. North Korea's agricultural ministry sent a letter to the U.N. organization on Wednesday, notifying it of the outbreak of the contagious animal disease and asking for emergency support, the

North Korea Feb. 10, 2011

     CAIRO, (AFP) - Egypt's embattled regime warned of a military crackdown on Wednesday as massive protests demanding its overthrow spilled out across the country and deadly unrest flared in the remote south.   Hundreds of demonstrators marched on parliament from the epicentre of the uprising in Cairo's Tahrir Square the day after the largest protests since the revolt began, as other demonstratio

International Feb. 10, 2011