South Korean girl group Girls' Generation topped a weekly Japanese music chart with their first Japanese album, the music statistics company Oricon said Tuesday.The eponymous Japanese debut by the nine-girl group, released on June 1, sold 232,000 copies in its first week, according to the Oricon Weekly Charts. Oricon said it was the best first-week performance for a foreign artist's Japanese debut

Television June 7, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) _ A teary-eyed congressman from New York confessed Monday that he tweeted a lewd photo of himself to a young woman and admitted ``inappropriate'' exchanges with six women, reversing his string of denials about the incidents.In an apparent attempt to end the scathing headlines that the allegations have drawn, U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, a democrat, apologized repeatedly in a half-hour n

World News June 7, 2011

NAMHAE, South Korea, June 5 (Yonhap) -- A tourist bus drove off a road in this southeastern region of South Korea after clashing with passenger vehicles, killing two people and injuring 44 others, police said Sunday.The bus was returning from a tour to the nearby fishing village of Namhae, 495 kilometers southeast of Seoul, when its driver lost control and clashed with three passenger vehicles hea

Social Affairs June 5, 2011

A Korean woman was infected in 2004 with supposedly the same strain of E. coli bacteria that has killed 19 people and sickened about 1,600 in Europe, two Korean doctors said on Sunday.The 29-year-old patient was treated for what would be the first known case of the so-called EHEC 0104 infection, they said. The doctors -- Professors Bae Yoo-kyun at Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital and Ja

Social Affairs June 5, 2011

 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) --Two members of a famed acrobatic family commemorated patriarch Karl Wallenda on Saturday by completing the stunt that killed him, walking between two towers of a seaside hotel on a wire 100 feet (31 meters) above the ground, without a net.Nik Wallenda said he had planned to walk by himself across a 300-foot-long (91-meter-long) wire, but his mother convinced him to le

Culture June 5, 2011

LONDON (AFP) - Manchester United and England striker Wayne Rooney has expressed his delight after undergoing a hair transplant.Rooney confirmed on his Twitter account he visited a top London clinic for treatment in a bid to restore his receding locks."Just to confirm to all my followers I have had a hair transplant. I was going bald at 25 why not. I'm delighted with the result." Manchester United'

Soccer June 5, 2011

   KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - A group of Malaysian Muslim women say they will fight divorce, domestic violence and other problems -- by appealing to wives to be more obedient, one of the organisers said Friday.Maznah Taufik said "The Obedient Wife Club" being launched Saturday is aimed at drawing women who will be taught how to please their husbands better to prevent them from straying or misbehaving."W

Social Affairs June 5, 2011

TOME, New Mexico (AP) -- Nine year-old Bobby Bradley floated into history early Saturday, taking off solo in a hot air balloon and landing perfectly about a half-hour later to become the youngest trained pilot to accomplish such a feat.As the morning sun rose in the remote New Mexico town of Tome, Bradley took off in the company of three other balloons, whose pilots included a designated balloon e

Podcast June 5, 2011

 Supermodel Gisele Bundchen is poised to become a billionaire, according to Forbes.The Brazilian model is appearing in high-profile campaigns for the likes of Versace and Dior, but also earning quite a few extra by branding herself, the report said.Bunchen has licensed her name to a number of products, including a jewelry and eco-friendly cosmetics line, and a line of sandals for Grendene. Recentl

Television June 5, 2011

Prisoners in Venezuelan penitentiaries can do everything they desire, except for leaving there, New York Times reported.The report revealed lives of prisoners in the San Antonio prison on Margarita Island of the South American country, depicting the prison as "paradise.""The prison for more than 2,000 Venezuelans and foreigners held largely for drug trafficking more like a Hugh Hefner-inspired fle

June 5, 2011

COPENHAGEN (AFP) - A home-made rocket built by two Danes successfully blasted off from a floating launch pad off the Danish Baltic island of Bornholm Friday, nine months after its first test flight failed due to a defective hair drier."It was like seeing a missile and it came over us a couple of kilometres up. We are ecstatic and will be going home with everything we have learned," one of the Dani

Podcast June 5, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ The images began arriving in Joshua Kaufman's inbox. The grainy photos are low-lit and intimate: a man curled up on a couch, sound asleep; the same man propped up against pillows on a bed, shirtless.Who was this stranger sitting with Kaufman's stolen laptop?Kaufman collected the images and took them to police, who did not help him. So he went online, publishing the pictures on

World News June 2, 2011