Barbra StreisandBarbra Streisand is planning one more major movie venture after she completes work on her home in California.The actress/director's husband James Brolin reveals Streisand is planning a...
BEIJING, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- The State Administration of Foreign Exchange has approved a qualified domestic institutional investors (QDIIs) quota of 300 million U.S. dollars to Deutsche Bank China, ac...
People view models of buildings at the Jilin Real Estate Fair in Jilin, a city in northeast China's Jilin Province, Aug. 24, 2007. The fair, opened on Friday, attracted many visitors...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. government's terrorist screening database flagged Americans and foreigners as suspected terrorists almost 20,000 times last year, but only a small fraction of ...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- The number of detainees held by the American-led military forces in Iraq has swelled by 50 percent under the troop increase ordered by President George W. Bush, with th...
NEW YORK- Maria Sharapova loves New York, especially its style and skyline. When Sharapova defends her U.S. Open title next week, she'll be wearing tennis dresses decorated with graphic interpretation...
The stereotype that women are addicted to shopping really is true, for a new study has found that the fairer sex has a evolutionary gene which makes them born to shop.The finding is based on a study c...
MOSCOW, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- Abkhazia, a breakaway region in Georgia, on Saturday confirmed that a plane crashed in the region this week, one day after Georgia said its forces fired at a Russian plane ...
A fireman tries to approach burning houses in Smerna village, in the Zacharo area of Peloponese.(Xinhua/AFP Photo)Photo Gallery>>>ATHENS, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- Greece declared a nat...
NEW YORK, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks ended sharply higher Friday, with the main indexes scoring weekly gains of more than 2 percent. The Dow Jones industrial Average rose more than 140 points in ...