WARSAW, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski dismissed on Wednesday Jacek Kaczmarek, interior minister since February 2007, in connection with the Central Anti-corruption Bureau
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Two people were killed Wednesday afternoon in a shooting incident at a business in Walbridge, in the U.S. Midwestern state of Ohio, U.S. media reported.The suspect was d
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- United Airlines has plans to start new flight services between California and two Chinese cities in next two years to exploit the booming U.S.-China route, but the airl
BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Agricultural Bank of China (ABC), the country's last major state-owned commercial bank still to list on the stock market, said its operating profits rose 64.6 percent t
More than a million Beijingers gathered in city parks on Wednesday morning for the first of more than 60 events around China to mark the start of the one-year countdown to the 2008 Olympic Games.More
SUZHOU - Hong Kong cyclist Chan Chun Hing qualified for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games after winning the bronze medal of the men's cross country at the 13th Asian Mountain Bike Championships here on F
MOSCOW, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Belarus has paid off its debt for gas to Russian gas giant Gazprom, Russian news agencies reported Wednesday. Belarussian gas pipeline company Beltransgaz paid Gazprom 56.5
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President George W. Bush is “fit for duty“ as doctors have determined he remains “in superior fitness,“ the White House said Wednesday. “Doctors have dete
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- U.S. commercial crude oil inventories fell sharply last week while gasoline stockpiles also declined unexpectedly, the Energy Department reported Wednesday. In the week
BEIJING, Aug. 8 -- Banks made more effort and achieved better results in the second quarter in their fight against malpractice and graft, the financial watchdog said yesterday. The China Banking Regul