The United States was reluctant on Tuesday to confirm a report by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) that Washington has agreed to remove it from a list of terrorism-sponsoring states an...
Iraqi children look at a U.S. soldier patrolling in the al-Allawi neighbourhood in central Baghdad. The Iraqi government has only reached 7 of its 18 political and security goals U.S. Congress set in ...
China's currency, the yuan, hit a new high against the U.S. dollar on Thursday at 7.5410 yuan to one U.S. dollar, according to the Chinese Foreign Exchange Trading System.The central parity rate of th...
Ten percent of married couples start their romantic relationship with online love. Pre-marital cohabitation is more tolerant. Two-thirds of people believe that it doesn't matter if a woman marries a m...
A student at No.28 Middle School brushes her ID card before entering school in Nanchang on Monday, September 2, 2007. [Photo: jxnews.com.cn]Do you want to know more about your children's performance a...
Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown answers questions during his monthly news conference inside 10 Downing Street, London September 4, 2007. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)British Prime Minister Gordon Brown...
Mount Etna, Europe's tallest and most active volcano, spews lava on the southern Italian island of Sicily September 4, 2007. There was no danger to villages lower down on the slopes, officials said. [...
Recent turmoil in financial markets had a noticeable effect on the ailing housing sector but its impact on the rest of the U.S. economy so far seemed limited, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday in a n...
A sign of Taikang Life Insurance, China's fifth-largest life insurer.[Photo:Baidu]Taikang Life Insurance, China's fifth-largest life insurer, opened its pension business yesterday to explore the count...
HONG KONG: A 9-year-old math prodigy began university life Tuesday - and promptly declared his first lesson “easy“.March Boedihardjo, a 9-year-old maths prodigy, poses during a news conference in ...