SOUTH KOREA'S president has overhauled his Cabinet, bringing on seven new ministers - including a female prime minister, an appointment that reflects a major departure from tradition in this male-dominated society.

Draped with flags, the coffins of four South Korean sailors killed in a sea battle with North Korea were carried past weeping relatives and servicemen at a funeral service in Seoul today.

A North Korean warship sank a South Korean patrol boat in the Yellow Sea killing at least four sailors and wounding 19 in the worst border clash in recent years on the world’s last Cold War frontier.

A North Korean warship sank a South Korean patrol boat in the Yellow Sea today, killing at least 4 sailors and wounding 19 in the worst border clash in recent years on the world’s last Cold War frontier.