BEIRUT, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Lebanese Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun said Thursday the opposition has assigned him to take part in political dialogue with the ruling majority, local Naharne...
Special Report: Fight against Global WarmingBALI, Indonesia, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore here on Thursday urged the Bush Administration to act with sense of urgency on clima...
BRUSSELS, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- The European Union's (EU) current account deficit grew to 16.3 billion euros (23.9 billion U.S. dollars) in the third quarter of 2007, the EU's statistics bureau Eurostat...
CHICAGO, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) announced that a CBOE seat, or membership, traded for a new all-time high of 3.15 million U.S. dollars earlier Tuesday. The new r...
BEIJING, Dec. 12 (Xinhuanet) -- AT&T Inc. on Wednesday set a long-term target for its TV service, which is delivered over phone lines, saying it will be available to 30 million customers by 2010.T...
TOKYO, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- Tokyo stocks fell Wednesday. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average lost 112.46 points, or 0.70 percent, from Tuesday to end at 15,932.26. The broader Topix index of all First S...
The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill on Thursday to prohibit the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from using “waterboarding“ and other harsh tactics to interrogate terrorist suspects...
Nicolas and Cécilia SarkozyFrench voters have long shrugged off presidential extramarital affairs, but this year saw the first divorce of a French president while in office — a president whose wife...
A United Nations human rights expert expressed grave concerns on Thursday that the CIA may continue using torture on terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay.Martin Scheinin, U.N. special rapporteur on pr...
Cristina Fernandez takes the oath of office as Argentina's new president at the Congress in Buenos Aires, Dec. 10, 2007. Fernandez rejected Thursday charges by the United States that she used money s...