A single drop of milk. A newborn baby. The ravages of war and terrorism. The defiance of those who protest and the fear of those entrapped.      All are included in a multimedia project featuring Time magazine's most influential images of all time, released Thursday through a new book, videos and a website.      Many of the photos or frames from films are familiar, engrained in the collective conscious, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning ``Falling Man,'' taken on 9/11 by Richard Drew of The As

World Business Nov. 17, 2016

Around 100 people are missing feared drowned in the Mediterranean after a migrant dinghy capsized off Libya, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Thursday, citing testimony from 27 survivors."The 27 men now on board the Argos were on board a boat carrying 130 people. They are the only survivors. This tragedy is just unbearable," MSF said in a tweet. Along with the 27 survivors the Bourbon Argos ship also recovered seven bodies. (AFP)

World News Nov. 17, 2016

After losing the popular vote, President-elect Donald Trump has decided that the Electoral College is a pretty smart way to elect a president after all.      Despite losing the election, Democrat Hillary Clinton will win the popular vote by more than 1 million votes as she runs up big leads in the biggest, bluest states.      Democrats have used Clinton's lead in the popular vote to downplay any mandate Trump might claim.      Trump has shot back, tweeting Wednesday: ``If the election were based

World News Nov. 17, 2016

South Korea's finance minister said Thursday that the government will map out detailed plans to deal with possible changes in the economic policies of the United States under President-elect Donald Trump.   "Drastic changes in the world trade environment such as strengthening protectionism will weigh heavily on the world economy and the South Korean economy, which highly depends on exports,"Finance Minister Yoo Il-ho said in a meeting in Seoul with heads of state-run think tanks and economic exp

Nov. 17, 2016

North Korea warned Thursday that it will explore every measure possible to counter a United Nations committee's latest adoption of a resolution condemning Pyongyang's human rights abuses.   North Korea's mission to the U.N. released a statement saying that the passage of the U.N. resolution is the outcome of political plots and collusion with an aim at choking North Korea, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).   The North's reaction came as the U.N. General Assembly's Third Committ

North Korea Nov. 17, 2016

Senior diplomats of South Korea and Japan agreed Wednesday to step up pressure on the North Korean regime in response to its evolving nuclear and missile threats, the foreign ministry here said Wednesday.   South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Lim Sung-nam and his Japanese counterpart Shinsuke Sugiyama reached the agreement during talks in Tokyo ahead of a trilateral meeting with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken, the ministry said.   Lim and Sugiyama discussed the urgency of the North K

North Korea Oct. 26, 2016

An Afghan woman immortalised on a celebrated National Geographic magazine cover as a green-eyed 12-year-old girl was arrested Wednesday for living in Pakistan on fraudulent identity papers.   The haunting image of Sharbat Gula, taken in a Pakistan refugee camp by photographer Steve McCurry in the 1980s, became the most famous cover image in the magazine's history.   She now faces up to 14 years in jail -- in an episode which highlights the desperate measures many Afghans are willing to take to a

World News Oct. 26, 2016

British banker Rurik Jutting who is accused of murdering two Indonesian women in his upscale Hong Kong apartment was a cocaine addict who had developed drug-induced fantasies, a court heard Wednesday.   The 31-year-old Cambridge graduate and former securities trader for Bank of America-Merrill Lynch has pleaded "not guilty" to two murder charges, on the grounds of diminished responsibility.    He pleaded guilty to manslaughter, which was rejected by the prosecution.   Since the trial started Mon

World News Oct. 26, 2016

North Korea is unlikely to give up  its nuclear weapons program in the absence of all-out international  sanctions on the country, a former presidential advisor said  Wednesday, making his case for tougher actions against Pyongyang.    "Against the current backdrop, North Korea's denuclearization  is surely improbable," Chun Yung-woo, former presidential advisor  for national security, said in a forum hosted by the state-run Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security.    North Korea's wi

North Korea Oct. 26, 2016

A senior North Korean communist party official arrived in Vietnam Wednesday to attend an international conference amid global pressure over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program.   Ri Su-yong, vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party, was seen at Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport with several aides after reportedly visiting Dubai. He left Pyongyang on Monday and traveled via Beijing.   Ri, a former North Korean foreign minister, plans to attend the 18th International Meetin

North Korea Oct. 26, 2016

South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Wednesday called on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to work together to further expand a bilateral "mutually beneficial" partnership.   During her meeting with OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria, Park noted that South Korea's 1996 entry into the international organization has served as a crucial "stepping stone" to the country's economic advancement.   Gurria, in turn, said that South Korea has emerged as a trustworthy par

Politics Oct. 26, 2016

International fans of Korean pop music gathered in the South Korean city of Changwon for the final of this year's global K-pop singing and dance competition on Friday.   A total of 15 teams, who topped the preliminaries in the regional competitions in 65 countries around the world, made their last sprint for the top title in the 2016 K-POP World Festival in Changwon.   Changwon is a city located some 398 kilometers southeast of Seoul.    The annual K-pop competition, the largest of its kind, is

Performance Sept. 30, 2016

For South Korean football club Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors, this season could have been their most successful one to date.   Gunning for a three-peat, Jeonbuk are currently the leaders in the top-tier K League Classic with an undefeated record of 18 wins and 14 draws. They are just six matches away from finishing the season without a loss, an unprecedented feat since the league started in 1983.   At the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League, Jeonbuk are one step closer to reaching the f

Politics Sept. 30, 2016