Acar is burned on a roadin southern Peloponnese peninsula,Greece, Aug. 24, 2007.The number of people who have died in two violent fires raging in the Peloponnese has risen to 37, after the discovery o...
A helicopter drops water on a fire at Mount Taygete in the Peloponnese in southern Greece, 24 Aug. 2007. Forty-one people were killed and an undetermined number of people missing in ...
Special report: Tension escalates in Iraq A man grieves after a relative was killed during clashes between U.S. forces and suspected insurgents in Baghdad's Shula distr...
BEIJING, Aug. 23 -- Foreign food importers will be able to tell certified Chinese food products from fake ones thanks to a “CIQ“ mark that all legal food exports are required to carry on their pac...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- The Federal Reserve (Fed) on Wednesday pumped 2 billion dollars into the financial system to help beat back a widening credit crisis. The injection was announced by the...
Jim Delligatti took two years to convince McDonald's that the Big Mac was a good idea but 40 years on he takes pride in having invented one of the world's most widely eaten foods that is getting its o...
Inspection and quarantine authorities in south China's Guangdong Province have bolstered efforts to further scrutinize the quality of toys exported overseas.A new product quality licensing system was ...
BEIJING, Aug. 24 (Xinhuanet) -- Heavy monsoon rains bursting the banks of rivers have caused the deaths of almost 1,800 people from drowning, house collapses, snakebite and waterborne diseases and Wed...
MOSCOW, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- Russia will sell 40 multipurpose Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighter jets to India under a 200-million-U.S.-dollar contract to be inked this fall, a Russian aircraft company chief said...
Samuel L. Jackson attends the 2007 MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles, California June 3, 2007.[Reuters]The Toronto International Film Festival on Wednesday unveiled its most Hollywood-friendly lineup in...