The man suspected of shooting dead 10 people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, deliberately sought a site with a high black population, authorities say. The suspect, Payton Gendron, 18, drove more than 320km (200 miles) to c...
A religious group in South Korea has been identified as a coronavirus hotbed, officials say, amid a sharp rise in confirmed cases in the country. The infections among members of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, the Temple of the Tabernacle o...
Severe flooding in Venice that has left much of the Italian city under water is a direct result of climate change, the mayor says. The highest water levels in the region in more than 50 years would leave "a permanent mark", Venice ...
Seven South Korean tourists have died and at least 19 more are missing after a boat capsized on the Danube river in Hungary's capital, Budapest. Thirty tourists and three tour guides, as well two Hungarian crew members, were on the boat when...
Today, almost 600,000 South Korean students sit the College Scholastic Ability Test, a gruelling, eight-hour set of university entrance exams. It is difficult to overstate the significance of the CSAT. Similar to other global standardised ex...
A group of elderly South Koreans have arrived in North Korea to meet relatives they have not seen since the Korean War of 1950-1953. The war left the Korean peninsula divided and people who lived on the northern side were unable to leave. The two K...
North Korea has returned remains believed to be of US troops killed during the Korean War, the latest move in the cautious diplomacy between Washington and Pyongyang. Troops formed an honour guard as the plane carrying the remains touched down at a ...
Trump and Kim Jong Un making history with their goals to denuclearize Korean Peninsula...
San Francisco is to have its first-ever female black mayor - at a time when African-Americans are becoming increasingly scarce in the US city. London Breed, a long-time community activist who grew up in public housing, was declared the winner after ...
Moment Kim Jong-un crossed Korean border...
Kim Jong-un will on Friday become the first North Korean leader to cross into South Korean territory since the end of the Korean War in 1953. In newly announced details, South Korea said President Moon Jae-in would personally meet Mr Kim at ...
A new mobile phone application developed in North Korea allows its users to experiment with new looks. While such photo manipulation applications are common around the world, it appears that Bomhyanggi 1.0 ("Spring Scent") is the f...
China has told North Korean companies operating in its territory to close down as it implements United Nations sanctions against the reclusive state. The companies will be shut by early January. Joint Chinese and North Korean ventures will a...
Ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye has been arrested and taken into custody over a corruption scandal that led to her dismissal. The 65-year-old was driven to a detention centre south of Seoul after a court approved her arrest. She...
Ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye is expected to be released by prosecutors after a 14-hour interrogation over a corruption scandal that brought her down. Ms Park denied all charges on Tuesday, Yonhap news agency reported, cit...
Video appears to show assassination of North Korean leader's half-brother...
Speculation mounts that the North Korean government will cover up the failed mission to hide the truth from its people NBC's Richard Engel reports....
updated 9:48 p.m. ET April 20, 2009 SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean officials traveled Tuesday to North Korea for the first meeting between the two governments in more than a year, amid tension over Pyongyang's moves to restart its nuclear progr...
The U.S. military is prepared to shoot down a North Korean missile or rocket if President Obama should give the order, the head of the U.S. Pacific Command said Thursday. \\"If a missile leaves the launch pad(发射台) we'll be prepared to re...