Impoverished North Korea has requested 150,000 tons of fertilizer from South Korea, months after the communist nation demanded that the U.N. World Food Program halt emergency food shipments.
Disgraced South Korean cloning expert Hwang Woo-Suk and six other professors involved in fabricating stem cell research will be sacked from their university posts.
Two Japanese divers survived the threat of dehydration, hypothermia, sunburn and sharks while drifting for more than 30 hours in the open waters of Palau.