TEHRAN, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Six military personnel of Iranian security forces were killed in a helicopter crash near the border with northern Iraq, the state-run media reported on Saturday. According
HELSINKI, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Northern European states agreed to dispatch peacekeeping troops and civilian police to Sudan's Darfur region after ending a foreign ministerial meeting on Friday in F
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday filed fraud charges against a former Brocade Communications Systems Inc. executive. The U.S. federal regulators alleged
NEW YORK, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Crude prices rose Friday on Hurricane Dean and the Federal Reserve's interest rate cut. The National Hurricane Center said Dean strengthened, which will head straight int
White House spokesman Tony Snow answers a question during his daily briefing from the White House in Washington July 13, 2007. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- White H
LONDON, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- One person died and six others are missing after fire swept through a hotel in Cornwall, southwest England, on Saturday morning, according to the Sky News. Emergency servic
BEIJING, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Fast increase in government revenues and corporate income are to blame for the intractable growth rate of investment, said Wang Yiming, deputy director of the academy of m
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Federal Reserve said on Friday it has pumped 6 billion U.S. dollars into the financial system to help beat back a widening credit crisis. The U.S. central bank, whi
BERLIN, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- The German government is considering whether to send more troops to Afghanistan after three German police officers were killed this week in a bomb attack near the Afghan ca
KABUL, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Taliban militants kidnapped four Afghan engineers in the southern Kandahar province, the police said Saturday. The engineers, who were building a bridge, were abducted in Sh