North Korea has proposed a joint investigation with the US into the hacking attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment, warning of “serious” consequences if Washington rejects a probe that it believes would prove Pyongyang had nothing to do with the cyber attack.

Frustrated relatives of the scores still missing from the capsized ferry Sewol have staged a marathon confrontation with South Korea’s fisheries minister and the coastguard chief.

The South Korean authorities have arrested four more crew members from the ferry that sank last week, bringing the total number detained to 11.

The official death toll in the South Korea ferry disaster reached 150 today as the grim work of recovering bodies from the submerged vessel continued.

A US judge has erased nearly half of the $1bn in damages that a jury decided that Samsung Electronics should pay Apple in a high-profile trial over the smartphone and tablet computer patents.

A US judge has rejected Apple’s demand to increase the $1.05bn damages a jury ordered Samsung Electronics to pay its fiercest rival in the smartphone market.

A judge has denied a legal request by Apple to ban US sales of Samsung smartphone models that a jury said illegally used its technology.

A US federal judge said she will issue rulings aimed at resolving a multifaceted legal battle between Apple and Samsung Electronics, urging the world’s largest smartphone makers to settle their differences.

Apple has given a US judge a list of eight Samsung Electronics products it wants pulled from shelves and banned from the US market.

A US judge has ordered Samsung to halt sales of its Galaxy 10.1 tablet computer while the court considers Apple’s claim that the South Korean tech giant illegally copied the design of the popular iPad.

NORTH Korea warned the world there would be no softening of its position towards South Korea after Kim Jong-il’s death as Pyongyang strengthened his son and heir’s authority with a new title: Great Leader.

NORTH KOREA will shift to collective rule from a strongman dictatorship after last week’s death of Kim Jong-il, although his untested young son will be at the head of the ruling coterie, a source with close ties to Pyongyang and Beijing said.

The US administration's unflattering assessment of British Prime Minister David Cameron is set to be made public with the release of thousands of leaked State Department files by the WikiLeaks whistleblowers website.

THE United States weathered criticism of its human rights record from friends and foes alike in a United Nations forum that the former Bush administration had boycotted as hypocritical.

Lady Gaga had to be dragged out of her dressing room by Oprah Winfrey after suffering from stage fright.

Bangkok police are hunting a man whose tongue was bitten off by a girl he allegedly tried to rape.

Spurred on by shouts of “shove it in, shove it in,” 19-year-old Ezra Nicholas set a world record by stuffing more than three McDonald’s hamburgers into his mouth – without swallowing – at the close of Singapore’s contest to be the world’s wackiest.

A 50-year-old man got a weekend of wacky world record attempts in Singapore off to a cracking start today when he became the fastest eater of dry biscuits in the world.

North Korea estimated today that last week’s massive train explosion caused about €300.8m in damage, an announcement that could be part of an effort to garner as much aid as possible for the impoverished nation.