SEOUL, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- Nearly half of South Koreans don't think North Korea will keep its pledge to denuclearize its nuclear weapons, a poll showed Friday.

SEOUL, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- South Korea has granted refugee status to two Yemeni journalists who filed for asylum in the country after fleeing from Yemen's civil war.

SEOUL, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- South Korean prosecutors have summoned Bang Jung-oh, a former president of South Korean cable network TV Chosun, in a probe for an unsolved suicide case of a South Korean actress.

Dec. 13 (UPI) -- A Gallup poll released Thursday found that Americans' assessment of their mental health failed to rebound this year after dropping to a 16-year low in 2017.

An Asian tick newly introduced into the United States has the potential to infest a wide swath of the country, researchers say.

Dec. 13 (UPI) -- A Buddhist monk in India died after being attacked by a leopard while meditating under a tree, officials said.

Researchers at MIT say they've developed an ingestible capsule that can be monitored outside the body for health data, using Bluetooth wireless technology.

Dec. 13 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it was able to trace an E. coli outbreak to a California farm.

Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Dozens of businesses and other locations throughout the United States reported a series of bomb threats that authorities said appeared to not be credible.

Dec. 13 (UPI) -- A single-engine plane crashed in northwest Indiana on Thursday, killing one person, aviation officials said.