LONDON North Korean officials have invited rock guitarist Eric Clapton to play a concert in the Communist state, a diplomat at the country's embassy in London said yesterday. The diplomat confirmed reports in the British media that Clapton had been officially invited to Pyongyang -- the first such invitation to a Western rock star to the isolated nation. "Eric Clapton is a well-known musician and guitarist, famous throughout the world," said the official, who declined to give his name. "It will be a good opportunity for Western music to be understood better by Koreans." The Financial Times...
US holds drills off Korea as Pyongyang talks war 
Herald Tribune
Herald Tribune
ABOARD USS GEORGE WASHINGTON - U.S. and South Korean warships and helicopters practiced anti-submarine maneuvers off the Korean peninsula Monday, readying defenses against the kind of weapon that allegedly sank a South...
Critically Acclaimed Damages Moves to DIRECTV With Brand New Episodes Airing Exclusively on DIRECTV's 101 Network
Stockhouse
Stockhouse
DIRECTV Entertainment and Sony Pictures Television Partner to Produce 20 New Episodes To Air Over Two Consecutive Seasons in 2011 and 2012 CULVER CITY & EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Jul 19, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- DIRECTV and...
US Aircraft Carrier Ups Pressure on North Korea
The New York Times
The New York Times
Filed at 12:40 a.m. ET ABOARD USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (AP) -- A massive nuclear-powered U.S. supercarrier began maneuvers Sunday with ally South Korea in a potent show of force, four months after the sinking of a South...
