North Korea's national soccer team is making its first appearance in the World Cup in 44 years. The team’s entry into the spotlight is compatible with the regime's aggressive stance, said Robert Dujarric of Temple University, Japan Campus. "All communist countries put a lot of emphasis on sports to show how strong, successful and mighty they are," he said. "It's in their DNA. They think, 'If we win on the playing field, we can win on the battlefield.'"

As part of Men's Health Week and just before Father's Day, a new series of public service announcements to raise awareness about the importance of preventive medical testing are now airing. "It is usually women, either wives or significant others, who bring men to physicians," said Sara Sirna, a cardiologist at Temple's School of Medicine. "The risk of high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes is high in men. A lot of those diseases have no symptoms at all. Yet many of them can be prevented."

A jury acquitted William J. Barnes on the charge that he murdered former Philadelphia police officer Walter Barclay in 1966. Despite the notorious facts in the case, the jury chose to hold prosecutors in check and uphold important principles of law. "I thought it was a tough sell on the basis of 40 years and the things that can happen in 40 years," said James Strazzella, a professor at Temple's Beasley School of Law. "It wouldn't surprise me that it would be awfully difficult to pin down a cause of death."