Houses have been lost to a bushfire burning in hot, dry conditions in southern NSW,
the Rural Fire Service (RFS) says.

Australia has been lobbying Tuvalu to drop its demand that global warming
temperature rises be limited to 1.5 degrees, the nation's Prime Minister Apisai
Ielemia says.

SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's human rights watchdog indicated Thursday
it may extend its analysis of North Korean human rights concerns.

By Kim Hyun
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Yonhap) -- South Korea expressed uncertainty Thursday over the
credibility of a recent North Korean report to the World Health Organization that

SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Yonhap) -- Veteran actor Song Gang-ho and actress Kim Hye-ja have
been selected as the best performers of the year by South Korean directors for

SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Yonhap) -- The Air Force said Thursday it has developed a
human-powered aircraft that can be pedaled off the ground and propelled with
human energy to fly.

SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Yonhap) -- Leaders of Indonesia's Cia-Cia tribe, who adopted
Korea's "Hangeul" alphabet to transcribe their language earlier this year, will

By Shin Hae-in
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Yonhap) -- Two cultural fairs kicked off simultaneously in Seoul
Thursday, demonstrating the latest trends in the global magazine and craft

By Byun Duk-kun
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak was due to arrive

By Kim Ye Ran
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Yonhap) -- Several months ago, the Cia-Cia people had no written
language. Concerned about the preservation of their culture and way of speaking,