Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in Seoul, South Korea in order to try to defuse tensions on the Korean peninsula. Fossil research in South Africa has discovered another early ancestor of man, Australopithecus sediba, who roamed the African plains 2 million years ago. In the Senate, gun violence legislation has passed the first of many hurdles to open debate, but it still has a long way to go. President Obama has released $10 million in non-military food aid to Syrian rebels as the humanitarian crisis there worsens amid civil war. A two-year malware ring designed to target MMORPG players and manipulate in-game currency to steal real money has been uncovered by security experts.