The Pentagon said Monday that it will not redeploy tactical nuclear weapons to South Korea."Our policy remains in support of a non-nuclear Korean peninsula. There is no plan to change that policy," a spokesperson for the Department of Defense told Yonhap News Agency on the customary condition of anonymity."Tactical nuclear weapons are unnecessary for the defense of South Korea and we have no plan

Defense May 15, 2012

The funeral of a 28 year-old waiter in southern Egypt turned into a celebration when he woke up after being declared dead.Hospital officials had pronounced dead Hamdi Hafez al-Nubi, who came from the village of Naga al-Simman in the southern province of Luxor, after he suffered a heart attack while working.His family says grieving relatives took him home and, according to Islamic tradition, washed

World News May 14, 2012

South Korea, China and Japan adopted a joint declaration Monday that sums up annual summit talks between their leaders held the previous day, but the document made no mention of North Korea and its provocative behavior.The omission of any clause on North Korea highlights the difference that the South and Japan have with China over how to deal with Pyongyang. Beijing, the North's last-remaining maj

May 14, 2012

Police in Florida said they arrested a man accused of hiding a camera in an air vent to record his roommates having sex in their bedroom.Key West police said officers were called to the home Sunday by a 30-year-old man who told them he found the recording device taped inside the air conditioner vent directly over the bed he shares with his 26-year-old girlfriend, the Key West Citizen reported Frid

World News May 13, 2012

An Arizona man who purchased six Powerball lottery tickets with the same numbers ended up with six $1 million prizes.Karen Bach, an Arizona Lottery spokeswoman, said the Glendale man, who asked to remain anonymous, purchased the tickets for the April 25 lottery with the numbers 4, 25, 29, 34, and 43 for Powerball 29 and each ticket won him a $1 million second prize, the Arizona Republic reported F

World News May 13, 2012

Mayan wall writings in Guatemala include calendars suggesting the culture was not convinced the world will end in 2012, as many have believed, researchers say.Some previously discovered Mayan calendars did not go beyond 2012 -- but the newly discovered writings and calendars do, scientists said."So much for the supposed end of the world," said archaeologist William Saturno of Boston University, le

World News May 13, 2012

High-ranking monks of South Korea's largest Buddhist sect, the Jogye Order, resigned en masse on Thursday, a day after prosecutors launched a probe into video footage showing eight of the sect's monks gambling while playing poker. The investigation was launched after the video footage, which filmed the eight monks with hundreds of millions of won in play at a hotel in southern South Korea on April

Social Affairs May 10, 2012

North Korea on Thursday lashed out at a South Korean presidential contender for an alleged insult to its dignity, sparing no flak for the son of a prominent businessman who pioneered lucrative projects with the North.In a comment posted on the North's propaganda Web site Uriminzokkiri, the communist regime heaped criticism on Rep. Chung Mong-joon of the South's ruling Saenuri Party for challenging

North Korea May 10, 2012

A man remains in a Texas jail after allegedly attempting to hold up a police station, a report said.Police said Keithan Manuel, 18, entered the Police Department building in Wilmer, Texas, near Dallas, Saturday evening with a towel covering his hands and a demand for money."A young man walked into the lobby and approached the dispatch window and told our communications officer, 'Give me all your m

Social Affairs May 10, 2012