WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- McGraw-Hill Cos. has replaced the top executive at Standard & Poor's Corp. as criticism of the company's financial-information division mounts for its role in the u
“Raja Gigi“ or “Teeth King“ Rathakrishnan Velu uses his teeth to pull seven train coaches, weighing about 300 tonnes, in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, August 30, 2007 in an attempt to break a reco
Special report: Tension escalates in Iraq WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. government on Thursday flatly rejected a draft report by U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) that said Iraq h
An Indian artist draws the eyes of a clay idol of Hindu Goddess Durga at Kumortuli in Kolkata, capital of Indian state of West Bengal, Aug. 29, 2007. Durga Puja, a four-day annual Hindu festival in In
At least eight people died and 40 got injured in a collision between two trains in Rio de Janeiro's metropolitan region on Thursday afternoon.A passenger train, whose final destination was Japeri, col
The Chinese car market has undergone unprecedented growth over the past five years, and younger people, especially women, are appearing behind the wheel, according to a report in Qianjiang Evening New
By Yu Zhixiao, Zabi Tamanna GHAZNI, Afghanistan, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- A total of 12 South Korean hostages were released by Taliban militants in Afghanistan on Wednesday after a six-week ordeal, with se
BEIJING, Aug. 29 (Xinhuanet)-- Every 10 U.S. citizens own nine guns, making the country the most heavily armed in the world.U.S. citizens own 270 million of the world's 875 million known firearms, acc
The quarantine administration said yesterday that its Shenzhen bureau has this year detected harmful pine wood nematodes (microscopic worms) in 13 batches of wooden packaging containing imported goods
China's top legislature amended a real estate management law Thursday, allowing the government to expropriate institutional and private houses on state-owned land for public interests.The Standing Com