Samsung Electronics Co on Thursday introduced the world's highest-resolution image sensor, with 64 megapixels for smartphones, to meet the growing demand for mobile devices with better image quality.Samsung unveiled two new 0.8-micrometer pixel image sensors...

A massive fire has ripped through around 500 hectares of forest and urban areas along the northeastern coast of South Korea, killing at least one person, damaging hundreds of buildings and forcing the evacuation of thousands of people.South Korea declared...

Actor-producer Manoj Bajpayees next feature "Bhonsle", which had its world premiere at the 23rd Busan International Film Festival on Friday, received an exceptional response from the Korean audience. He feels great about it."Great to hear some exciting response coming...

A couple of weeks after his triumph at the Asian Games, Indias Saurabh Chaudhary hunted down yet another gold medal as he won the men's junior  10m air pistol title, even as teammate Arjun Singh Cheema took a bronze medal at the 52nd ISSF World Championships...

The team of Olympic Athletes from Russia won the men's gold in hockey on Sunday beating Germany 4-3 at the Gangneung Hockey Centre at the ongoing Winter Olympics in South Korea.At the end of three periods of play, the score read 3-3, taking the match into...

Finland's Iivo Niskanen won the men's 50km cross-country skiing on Saturday at the Alpensia Cross-Country Center during the PyeongChang Winter Olympics here.Niskanen, 26, covered the distance in 2 hours, 8 minutes and 22.1 seconds, reports Efe.He was 18.7 seconds...

Nevin Galmarini of Switzerland pocketed the men's snowboard parallel giant slalom gold medal at PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games here on Saturday.Galmarini, silver medallist four years ago in Sochi, improved his standing on the podium as he overcame home favourite...

South Korean speed skater Kim Tae-yun captured bronze in the men's 1,000m discipline in the PyeongChang Winter Olympics here on Friday.Kim clocked 1:08.22, close to his personal record of 1:08.08, at the race held at the Gangneung Oval, reports Yonhap news...

South Korea will try to add two gold medals in the final speed skating events at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics on Saturday.Lee Seung-hoon and Kim Bo-reum are scheduled to compete in the semi-finals of the men's and women's mass start speed skating events...

The Japan's women's pursuit speed skating team on Wednesday clinched the gold by beating the Netherlands with a new Olympic record at the Winter Games here.The team, made up of Miho Takagi, Ayano Sato and Nana Takagi completed the event with a time of 2:53.89,...

Norway claimed two more golds on Wednesday to lead the medals table at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics.In a thrilling seesaw battle, Norway beat South Korea to win the men's team pursuit title in speed skating in a time of 3 minutes 37.32 seconds, reports Xinhua...

South Korea won a silver in the PyeongChang Winter Games men's team pursuit speed skating on Wednesday, finishing runner-up in the second consecutive Olympics.The trio of Lee Seung-hoon, Kim Min-seok and Chung Jae-won timed 3 minutes and 38.52 seconds in the...

Snow sports powerhouse Norway grabbed two gold medals on Sunday to top the medals table at the Winter Olympic Games here.Norway, the cross-country-crazed nation, first saw its 16-year gold medal drought in the men's 4x10-kilometre relay come to an end, and...

French biathlete Martin Fourcade made history on Sunday when he won his fourth Olympic gold medal in a dramatic photo finish in the men's biathlon 15-kilometre mass start at the Winter Olympics here.Fourcade is now France's most decorated athlete in either...

Nao Kodaira of Japan broke the Olympic record here on Sunday on her way to winning the women's 500 meters speed skating at the Winter Games.Having claimed victory in each of her last 15 World Cup appearances in the women's 500m from 2016 to 2018, reigning...

Norway's cross-country skiing legend Marit Bjoergen won her record-equalling 13th medal at Winter Olympic Games following her country's victory in women's 4X5km relay at the PyeongChang Games here on Saturday.Norway, teamed up by Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg, Astrid...

Anastasiya Kuzmina of Slovakia won her third gold medal at the Winter Olympic Games with her victory in biathlon women's 12.5km mass start at the PyeongChang Games here on Saturday.Kuzmina has equalled for the most gold medals in Summer and Winter Games representing...

Norwegian Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo bagged the gold in cross-country skiing men's sprint classic at the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games here on Tuesday.The 21-year-old Klaebo finished the race in three minutes and 5.75 seconds to become the youngest Olympic champion...

Russian woman figure skater Evgenia Medvedeva set a world record by earning 81.06 points and in the process bagged the first medal for her side in the team short dance event at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games.She bested her previous record set at the 2017 team...

Dutch speed skater Sven Kramer on Sunday bagged his third straight Olympic gold medal for the 5,000-metre event here at the PyeongChang Winter Games, after striking gold at the Vancouver 2010 and Sochi 2014 Games.Clocking in at 6:09.76 on Sunday, Kramer beat...

India's Shiva Keshavan finished at the 36th position in the men's luge competition at the 2018 Winter Olympics here on Saturday.Shiva registered 50.578 seconds in the Men's Singles Run 1 which saw a total of 40 competitors in action.He was 2.926 seconds behind...

The organisers of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics said Saturday its servers were hacked by an unidentified attacker during the opening ceremony the previous day.The PyeongChang Organising Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Games (POCOG) said...

North Korean athletes and their cheerleading squad attending the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics participated in a welcome ceremony on Thursday at the Gangneung Olympic Village in South Korea.The athletes, including 12 players from the unified Korean female...

South Korea's state weather agency on Wednesday said that it expects wind chill below minus 10 degrees Celsius at the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Games."Temperatures will range between minus 5 degrees and minus 2 degrees Celsius, which is on par or...

The head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday predicted that the upcoming joint march by the two Koreas at the opening of the PyeongChang Winter Games will be an emotional embodiment of the Olympic spirit of peace.Last month, the IOC...

After the visitors lost the opening Test by 72 runs to South Africa at Newlands here, India skipper Virat Kohli on Monday underlined the importance of having big partnerships.The 29-year-old also credited the way South Africans bowled their heart out despite...

A group of South Korean scientists has developed a new material to effectively block electromagnetic waves emanating from electronic gadgets and appliances, Yonhap news agency reported.The team led by Gu Jong-min of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ranked first in a survey of South Korean people to pick the country's next president. Ban's tenure as the UN chief ends later this year. According to a poll of 1,002 adults conducted for three days through Thursday, 26 per...

Women are using smartphones for four hours a day or longer and are more prone to succumb to smartphone addiction than men, the first-ever academic study on this topic has revealed.The study, conducted in South Korea, noted that 52 percent of the women in the...

Superstar Salman Khan's "Bajrangi Bhaijaan" was an instant hit with the global audience at the 20th Busan International Film Festival, where it received a standing ovation, says director Kabir Khan.“The biggest audience ever...#BajrangiBhaijaanInBusan 5000 people...Standing...