GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Artillery rounds landed in a heavily populated neighborhood of Congo's eastern city of Goma on Wednesday, killing a child and injuring other civilians a day before a planned visit by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a human rights group said. From early morning, government troops and M23 rebels exchanged heavy weapons fire for a third straight day outside the city, the largest in Democratic Republic of Congo's turbulent and mineral-rich east.

SEOUL, May 22 (Yonhap) -- President Park Geun-hye urged North Korea Wednesday to immediately halt provocations and work with South Korea for peace on their divided peninsula, saying Pyongyang should never expect to gain concessions with bad behavior. "North Korea is continuing threats of provocations while rejecting our proposals for dialogue and launching guided missiles," Park said, dressed in a khaki helicopter jacket, during a ceremony marking the deployment of South Korea's first indigenously developed military helicopter "Surion."

SEOUL, May 22 (Yonhap) -- The top South Korean men's professional basketball league said Wednesday it hopes to set up an inter-Korean basketball tournament this summer. The Korean Basketball League (KBL) said it has received permission from the Ministry of Unification, which handles inter-Korean affairs, to contact North Korean basketball officials about organizing an All-Korean event. KBL officials said the tournament, if materialized, will take place in August at a yet-to-be-determined venue in South Korea.

LIMA, Peru - The Senate expenses scandal is turning Prime Minister Stephen Harper's visit to South America into an awkward communications exercise. Harper's officials have indicated that the prime minister will finally take questions early this afternoon on the Prime Minister's Office involvement in reimbursing Senator Mike Duffy $90,000 for improper housing expense claims But Harper will be next to Peruvian President Ollanta Humala Tasso in a joint presentation that was supposed to be about boosting the mining sector to aid development in Peru.