SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Yonhap) -- Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea's largest carmaker, said Friday that it is targeting to sell 700,000 vehicles in the domestic market this year, up 2.4 percent from 2011.Hyundai Motor, which sold 683,570 units locally last year, said competition in the domestic market is exp

Industry Jan. 13, 2012

HWASEONG, South Korea, Jan. 13 (Yonhap) -- A 19-year-old marine corporal surnamed Kim was sentenced to death by a military court on Friday for killing four fellow marines in a shooting rampage on Ganghwa Island, west of Seoul, last July.A marine private found guilty of assisting Kim in the July 4 ra

Defense Jan. 13, 2012

LONDON (AP) — A new study of fertility treatment found that women who get three or more embryos have no better odds of having a baby than those who get just two embryos.They also have a greater chance of risky multiple births."Women who have gone through infertility treatment want the best cha

Technology Jan. 13, 2012

NEW DELHI, Jan 12, 2012 (AFP) - India on Thursday said it was trying to track down those responsible for a video of naked tribal women dancing for tourists in the Andaman islands, where filming of aborigines is banned.British newspaper The Observer at the weekend released the undated video showing J

World News Jan. 13, 2012

SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Yonhap) -- South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan said Thursday his government could launch formal talks with China on forging a bilateral free trade agreement, possibly in the first half of 2012, after finishing domestic procedures to start the talks within "a few months."Presi

Foreign Affairs Jan. 12, 2012

SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Yonhap) -- The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court's judgment and cleared a former chief of the state-run Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) of breach-of-trust charges.The final ruling cleared Jung Yun-joo of charges he caused nearly 190 billion won (US$164 million) in losse

Social Affairs Jan. 12, 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) _ The U.S. Marine Corps said Wednesday it is investigating a video depicting what appears to be four Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters.In a statement, the Marine Corps said it has not verified the origin or authenticity of the YouTube video. It also said the action

World News Jan. 12, 2012

Australia has the tightest security controls among nations with nuclear material while North Korea poses the world's greatest risks, a new index by experts said Wednesday.The Nuclear Threat Initiative, in a project led by former US senator Sam Nunn and the Economist Intelligence Unit, aims to draw a

North Korea Jan. 12, 2012

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) _ Two assailants on a motorcycle attached magnetic bombs on Wednesday to the car of an Iranian university professor working at a key nuclear facility, killing him and wounding two others, a semiofficial news agency reported.The attack in Tehran strongly resembles earlier killings o

Podcast Jan. 11, 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) _ A group of scientists that tracks the likelihood of a global cataclysm says the world is moving closer to doomsday.The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced Tuesday that it has moved its ``Doomsday Clock'' to five minutes to midnight.The group says inadequate progress on stop

World News Jan. 11, 2012

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Jan. 11 (Yonhap) -- Three crew members of a South Korean fishing boat went missing overboard and three others were injured after the ship caught fire in Antarctic waters early Wednesday, rescue officials said.The 51-meter-long vessel Jeong-woo 2, which had been fishing in the

Social Affairs Jan. 11, 2012