Special report: Tension escalates in Iraq HELSINKI, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- High-ranking representatives of Iraq's majority Shiite and minority Sunni Muslim groups would meet in Finland within a couple of...
GENEVA, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- The World Trade Organization (WTO) launched an expert panel on Friday to probe whether China is illegally subsidizing its industrial exports as alleged by the United States...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke vowed Friday that the central bank is prepared to take more actions to keep the credit crisis from hurting the economy. “Th...
BEIJING, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- China on Friday afternoon launched a gas pipeline that runs from the southwestern inland of Sichuan to coastal Shanghai, another “energy artery“ to fuel the booming bu...
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...