WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick appointed on Thursday former Nigerian Finance and Foreign Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as a managing director of the World Bank. ...
LONDON, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- The Bank of England decided on Thursday to keep the lending rate on hold at 5.75 percent while it assesses the economic impact of the recent financial turmoil. While some e...
LANZHOU, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) - China will boost potato production and development of industries based on the crop as a way to improve the country's grain security and to increase income for farmers. While...
The National Day holiday is a shopper's paradise. Many shopping malls offer special discounts during this period. Shoes, bags, clothes, and even underwear...are on sale at favorable prices. All you ne...
Drawing personalised paintings on the wall to decorate one's home has become a rather popular trend among young people in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province.The local Chutian Metropolis Daily repor...
CAIRO, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- Some Egyptian and Palestinian politicians and experts have played down chances of success of a U.S.-proposed international conference on Mideast peace due to Palestinian divi...
Aminer, who was trapped underground, emerges from Harmony Gold's Elandsrand mine near Carletonville, about 110 km west to Johannesburg, South Africa,Oct. 4, 2007. A total of 3200 wor...
BEIJING, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- An official with China's top legislature says the government will maintain its policy of encouraging foreign investment unchanged after the passing of the country's first a...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- The pace of rent growth in U.S. office buildings slowed in the third quarter, and leasing was sluggish as companies tapped the brakes on expansion due to credit-market t...
BERLIN - A German scientist has come up with a solution for snoring -- a computerized pillow that shifts the head's sleeping position until the noise stops.A woman sleeps in an undated photo. A German...