Almost a year after North Korea tested an atomic weapon, the nation's leader pledged to permanently shut-down nuclear operations by year's end and pursue peace with South Korea, as the two nations wrapped up their historic summit as the world's last cold war opponents.
With the rising number of suicides caused by cyber-bullying, a South Korean movement is leading the way in efforts to restore civility to human interactions on the internet. The Sunfull Movement seeks to flood online message boards with positive comments.
A Swedish company will help convert South Korean wastewater that used to dump into the ocean, into biogas, a type of clean fuel that can be used as power to heat buildings and even power vehicles.
"South Korea announced a campaign Monday to promote bicycle use as a way to cope with heavy traffic, air pollution and soaring global oil prices. The ministry said it will increase the number of bicycle-only roads and bicycle racks and revise related ordinances."
Displaying an iron will that vexed the bureaucrats, the 5-foot-tall, 90-pound monk waged a one-woman battle to preserve the natural environment in her native South Korea, which included dozens of sit-ins and hunger strikes.
Canadian Premier Dalton McGuinty has signed a landmark agreement with a South Korean consortium to generate 2,500 megawatts of wind and solar power in Ontario, providing clean electricity to 580,000 households and 16,000 new jobs over six years.
South Korean civic groups received the okay to deliver eight trucks of food aid to North Korea Friday. The 180 tons of flour is being delivered to hospitals, schools and day care centers with the hope that the measure will also lead to a softening of strained inter-Korean relations, following the passing of North Korea's leader.
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah will convene a meeting next week of the world's major oil producers to discuss ways of dealing with soaring fuel prices. King Abdullah "acknowledged that the current oil price is abnormally high, due to speculative factors, and he is willing to do what he can to manage the price of oil to the adequate level."
In their own brief moment of 'Arab Spring', Saudi women got behind the wheel and drove through their towns Friday, a defiant act against the law banning women drivers in Saudi Arabia.
The Saudi King said Monday his country will donate $1 billion to help rebuild the Gaza Strip after the devastating Israeli offensive halted recently by a fragile ceasefire. The King said his country's $1 billion donation for Gaza would go to a proposed fund Arabs are setting up to rebuild the seaside territory.
The first fully integrated co-ed university opened yesterday in Saudi Arabia. The school, which focuses, on sciences gives all students a full scholarship plus a stipend.
Borders will matter less to central Africa's mountain gorillas, following the launch of a strategic conservation plan which covers adjoining areas of Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Former foes Congo and Rwanda have agreed to a joint project to produce 200 megawatts of power from methane gas reservoirs in the lake on their shared border, a senior Congolese power official said on Friday.
Rwanda has become one of the cleanest countries in the world -- as clean as Switzerland -- thanks to new laws requiring every citizen to pick up litter. Dignitaries, even the president and his cabinet, regularly participate in the clean up.
UNICEF and the government of Rwanda have invited a professor from the University of B.C. to expand a 12-month nutritional pilot study involving 1,100 children into a national program for nearly half a million toddlers aged six months to two y
This week marks the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide. Coffee has played a role in the creation of worthwhile livelihoods for a half million people.
After a homeless illegal immigrant leaped into the Tiber River to save a drowning woman in Rome, he was rewarded by officials and given residency status.
Egypt's prime minister says Qatar has agreed to invest $18 billion in Egypt over the next five years. The funds aim to help revive Egypt's battered economy and lure back foreign investment that has all but disappeared since last year's uprising.
A new set of bike paths placed along the Tejo river in Lisbon, are filled with phrases from a famous Portuguese poem by Fernando Pessoa, the well known lines inspired by that very river.