N.Korea touts nuclear prowess as China urges talks

SEOUL — North Korea boasted Tuesday to running "thousands" of nuclear centrifuges, a week after launching a deadly artillery attack on South Korea, as China pressed for six-nation crisis talks.
State media in the North, which has already tested two atomic bombs made from plutonium, said "many thousands of centrifuges" are operating to enrich uranium at a new plant which it claims is for peaceful energy purposes.
The country first disclosed the new plant to US experts less than two weeks before its artillery assault, which killed two civilians and two marines on a South Korean island near the disputed Yellow Sea border.
Experts and senior US officials fear the plant could easily be configured to make weapons-grade uranium.
Analysts say the nuclear revelation and artillery attack appeared coordinated to pressure Washington and Seoul into resuming dialogue and aid, and possibly to bolster the credentials of the North's leader-in-waiting Kim Jong-Un.
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As South Korean death toll rises, U.S. scrambles to limit hostilities

The South Korean government announces that two civilians were killed when North Korea shelled Yeonpyeong island. Washington and allies begin trying to round up support for a U.N. Security Council statement that would condemn North Korea for the attack, which also killed two soldiers. The U.S. hopes to enlist China's aid.
 
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Wiz Khalifa Arrested After Alleged Seizure Of 60 Grams Of Marijuana

In a scenario that has ensnared everyone from country icon Willie Nelson to fellow rapper Lil Wayne, "Black and Yellow" MC Wiz Khalifa was arrested on Monday night in Greenville, North Carolina, on drug charges after authorities allegedly smelled marijuana smoke coming from his tour bus.

According to John Durham, a spokesperson for East Carolina University, where Khalifa performed earlier in the evening, the 22-year-old rapper played a sold-out show at the university's Wright Auditorium without a hitch. He had been paid $10,000 for the standing-room-only appearance in front of nearly 1,500 students who started a Facebook petition this summer to convince him to play their campus.
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