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Study looks into personality factors affecting infidelity
Men with sexual performance anxiety are more likely to cheat on their partners, a new study on the factors that predict infidelity found.Men who are risk-takers or easily sexually aroused are also more likely to wander. For women, relationship factors seem to be most important factor, according to the research by U.S. and Canadian scientists.Maria Shriver (left) and Arnold Schwarzenegger smile tog
Technology July 26, 2011
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Woman gets 1-year term for murdering her new-born baby
A woman was sentenced to one year in prison on Tuesday for suffocating her unwanted baby right after birth. The 26-year-old, whose name was not released, delivered a baby boy at a toilet in her factory in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province in February. Soon after the birth, the woman stuffed toilet paper into his mouth.The accused “actively murdered the infant,” a judge at Gwangju District Court said.“The
Social Affairs July 26, 2011
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Foreign objects found in sealed soju
A man found foreign objects in a sealed bottle of soju on Sunday.The 48-year-old office worker said he found three toothpicks, a cigarette butt, a thread and vinyl material inside the sprit which he bought at a shop near his home in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province. A bottle of contaminated soju (Yonhap)The distilled alcohol was produced by Muhak Co. based in the southeastern province. The norm
Social Affairs July 25, 2011
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Game addict dies at home
An Internet game addict died at home in Incheon on Saturday.The 20-year-old man had stayed at home playing games almost all day long for the past three years after graduating from high school, according to his brother who found him dead at 6:20 p.m.(Yonhap News)The man has not eaten properly for the past two months, his brother told police. He was often short of breath but refused to go to hospita
Social Affairs July 25, 2011
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U.S. invites top N.K. official for nuclear talks
BALI, Indonesia (AP) -- The United States has invited a top North Korean official to New York to talk about the next steps necessary to resume the long-stalled six-nation discussions aimed at ridding the North of its nuclear programs.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced Sunday that North Korean Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan will meet this week with U.S. officials to explore his
North Korea July 24, 2011
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[URGENT] Park wins world 400m freestyle
Olympic champion Park Tae-hwan won the men's 400m freestyle title at the world championships in Shanghai on Sunday.Park finished in 3min 42.04sec ahead of China's Sun Yang and defending champion Paul Biedermann of Germany.
More Sports July 24, 2011
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Kakao Talk moving to launch internet call services
Competition is heating up between mobile messenger operators in Korea as Kakao Talk, the formidable smartphone application, appears to be developing its internet phone call services. Industry watchers said Sunday the venture firm has been recruiting engineers who have experience in mobile voiceover Internet protocol, technology that enables voice and multimedia communications between users via bro
Technology July 24, 2011
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Journalists protest abuse by Israeli security guards
JERUSALEM (AFP) -- Foreign journalists on Friday spoke of their distress after being asked to remove their bras for a security check before being allowed into the offices of Israel's prime minister.The three women were told by security personnel to undress and take off their bras for x-ray in two separate incidents at the Jerusalem offices of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier last week.Isr
July 24, 2011
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Prada Korea sends most of earnings to overseas parent
Prada Korea transferred most of its net profits for 2009 to its parent firm, while providing little in the way of social contributions to Korea, placing the company among foreign firms accused of turning a blind eye to social causes.The Korean vendor of the Italian fashion brand is wholly owned by Prada Far East, based in the Netherlands. According to Prada Korea’s regulatory filings, more than 15
Industry July 24, 2011
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Civic group unveils rampant sex offenses in military
Sex offenses among male soldiers happened once every week on average in the South Korean military between 2009 and last year, but offenders got away with light punishment, data obtained from the defense ministry showed Sunday.Seventy-one cases of sex offenses were reported between January2009 and June 2010 in which male soldiers were accused of sexual crimes against their male peers, according to
Defense July 24, 2011
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Troubled diva Amy Winehouse dead at 27
LONDON (AP) -- Few artists summed up their own career in a single song _ a single line -- as well as Amy Winehouse.``They tried to make me go to rehab,'' she sang on her world-conquering 2006 single, ``Rehab.'' ``I said 'No, no no.''' In this Aug. 5, 2007 file photo, British singer Amy Winehouse performs at Lollapalooza at Grant Park in Chicago. The singer was found dead Saturday, July 23, 2011,
Performance July 24, 2011
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Norway police arrive 90 minutes after firing began
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Police arrived at an island massacre about an hour and a half after a gunman first opened fire, slowed because they didn't have quick access to a helicopter and then couldn't find a boat to make their way to the scene just several hundred yards (meters) offshore. The assailant surrendered when police finally reached him, but 82 people died before that.Survivors of the shooting
World News July 24, 2011
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Train collision in China kills 33, injures 190
BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese bullet train crashed into another high-speed train that had stalled after being struck by lightning Saturday in eastern China, causing four carriages to fall off a viaduct and killing at least 33 people and injuring 190 others, state media reported.The first train was traveling from the Zhejiang provincial capital of Hangzhou when it lost power in the lightning strike and
World News July 24, 2011
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Norway suspect's tract says attacks prepared since 2009
OSLO (AFP) - A rambling 1,500-page tract apparently written by the Norwegian man accused of killing at least 92 people in twin attacks says he has been preparing the operation since at least autumn 2009.The Internet document is part diary, part bomb-making manual and part political rant in which Anders Behring Breivik details his Islamophobia, attacks on Marxism and his initiation as a Knight Temp
World News July 24, 2011
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Police crack down on showbiz corruption
Police said Thursday they booked 29 people, including a chief executive of a cable TV network, who allegedly took money from new singers in return for rigging various online rankings of K-pop songs or helping them appear on TV.They were among the 140 people caught on charges stemming from 14 corruption cases, the National Police Agency (NPA) said after a four-month nationwide crackdown on irregula
Social Affairs July 21, 2011
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