AFP - India made a blazing start in their bid to dominate Commonwealth Games shooting, taking three of the first four gold medals on offer.

AFP - The South Korean subsidiary of US auto giant General Motors is re-hiring some 1,700 workers laid off five years ago during retructuring.

AFP - A hostile foreign bid for control of KTG, South Korea's tobacco and ginseng monopoly, has touched a raw nerve here and is stirring up a new wave of economic nationalism against overseas investors.

AFP - North Korea has said it was putting off an inter-Korean meeting originally set to take place later this month, citing US-South Korea military exercises due at about the same time.

AFP - South Korea formally sought Nigeria's support for its Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon who has declared his candidacy to replace Kofi Annan as United Nations secretary general.

AP - The top U.S. negotiator on North Korea's nuclear program met over the weekend with his South Korean counterpart to discuss ways to resume the stalled talks with the communist nation.

AFP - Trade talks between the United States and South Korea will be closely monitored here, where an unprecedented capitalist enclave is emerging from the North Korean scrub land.

Reuters - Years of radioactive waste water spills from Illinois nuclear power plants have fueled suspicions the industry covers up safety problems and sparked debate about the risks from exposure to low-level radiation.

AP - The most common consumer version of Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows operating system will include tools for things like recording and watching television, along with other functions aimed at using the PC for entertainment purposes.

Reuters - South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun will hold an unprecedented live debate on the Internet next month with the public focused on reducing social disparity, the presidential Blue House said on Sunday.

AFP - South and North Korea will resume high-level military talks next week after a 21-month hiatus in an effort to reduce tensions and build confidence between the Cold War rivals.

AFP - Germany will look at South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon's candidacy to replace Kofi Annan as United Nations chief "favorably", Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has said.

AP - NATO defense ministers sought to calm Islamic anger over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad at a counterterrorism meeting Friday with Arab countries and Israel.

AP - University investigators found no scientific misconduct on the part of a U.S. stem-cell expert over his work with a now-disgraced South Korean scientist, officials said Friday.

AFP - South Korea's top university has suspended cloning expert Hwang Woo-Suk and six other professors for faking stem cell research.

AFP - 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.

AFP - South Korean film stars have led a rally opposing plans to cut in half the screen quota system, a government decision they said would trigger a Hollywood movie invasion.

AFP - Indian President Abdul Kalam proposed the creation of a single free trade bloc encompassing Asia and possibly Oceania, officials said.

AP - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was upbeat Friday on the prospect of warm relations with the new government in Berlin ahead of an international security conference that has been the scene of trans-Atlantic tension in recent years.

AFP - A high-level three-day conference focusing on the future of NATO began against the background of global concerns over Iran's nuclear program.