An American woman named Karen Butler went to the dentist to remove several teeth and came out speaking a foreign -- slightly Irish -- accent.  She is believed to be suffering from a rare neurological disorder called foreign accent syndrome (FAS). This complication was first diagnosed in Norway in 1941 when a woman was hit by shrapnel from an air raid in World War II. Since then, there have only be

Technology June 9, 2011

Local police in Essex, Britain, came under fire after they ignored 100 text messages by a man threatening to kill his ex-partner. He shot the woman and their 2-year-old dead in their home on Sunday, according to Daily Mail Online. The killer also shoved his shotgun into the mouth of her 10-year-old daughter, who saved her life by climbing through the window onto the kitchen roof, according to the

Podcast June 8, 2011

The South Korean economy grew at a slower pace than previously estimated in the first quarter as weaker domestic demand and sluggish facility investment offset robust exports, the central bank said Wednesday.The country's gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic performance, grew a revised 1.3 percent in the January-March period from three months earlier, down from an earlier estim

June 8, 2011

A babysitter in the United States who allegedly left a three-year-old in a car unsupervised for eight hours has been charged with negligent homicide.Genee Brumfield from Louisiana, who is also the godmother of the victim, left the child in the car while visiting her mother on the way to the day care center.All the doors and windows were locked, while the heat inside the car reached 65 degrees Cels

June 3, 2011

Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency arrested a 29-year-old man for swindling by posing as a woman in order to lure prostitute seekers.The convict, identified by his surname Yoon, allegedly approached some 340 men via online dating websites for false sex trafficking. The tempted victims sent him a total amount of $60,000.Yoon had posted photos of random women from the Internet, and then suggested “she

Social Affairs June 3, 2011

An Army private shot himself dead with his assault rifle early this week while on duty at a frontline unit, the latest in a recent string of deaths of conscripts, officials said Thursday. The private, identified only by his surname Choi, was found dead with a bullet in his head in the pre-dawn hours of Monday outside a military post near Hwacheon, 118 kilometers northeast of Seoul, according to th

Social Affairs June 2, 2011

 TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Thursday survived a no-confidence motion brought by the conservative opposition after he pledged to step down once the country has recovered from the March 11 quake.The motion against Kan, brought in the lower house of the Diet legislature by the main conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and two small parties, was defeated by a margin of 15

World News June 2, 2011

A prisoner in U.K. has been allowed to have artificial insemination with his partner by virtue of the right to family life clause of the Human Rights Act.While there is a consensus about the importance of human rights, the debate concerning “right to family life” under the Article 8 of the Act is stirring British society. Some say that the article is misused as a way to escape punishment. Just las

June 2, 2011