A passenger train packed with holiday travelers derailed in southern Pakistan early Wednesday, killing at least 14 people and injuring many others, according to local media.The train was traveling fro...
CHICAGO, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- General Motors Corp. (GM) Tuesday announced a price adjustment on most of its 2008 model year vehicles to partially recover increasing steel and commodity costs. The price...
CHICAGO, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- The United States is seeing a sharp increase of online shopping for this holiday season, an Internet information provider said Tuesday. ComScore, a leader in measuring the...
This handout picture, released by the Japanese Defence Ministry, shows a Japanese Maritime Defence Force's destroyer Kongo launching a missile off Hawaii, in the Pacific Ocean. A Standard Missile 3 (S...
BEIJING, Dec. 17 (Xinhuanet)-- Russian President Vladimir Putin was named Time magazine's “Person of the Year“ for 2007 on Wednesday for bringing stability and renewed status to Russia. ...
JAKARTA, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian government has linked open sky policy negotiations with the EU to the bloc's ban on Indonesian airplanes, effectively grounding the negotiations for the pre...
China's central and local governments recorded 4.82 trillion yuan (654 billion U.S. dollars) in fiscal revenue during the first 11 months of this year, up 33.5 percent from the same period of last yea...
Rail staff prepare to remove damaged carriages after a train derailed near Mehrabpur, 400 km (250 miles) from Karachi, Dec. 19, 2007. At least 50 people lost their lives in a train accident in Pakista...
JERUSALEM, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Knesset (parliament) Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Wednesday authorized declaring a “special security situation“ in Sderot and other communities alon...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- A fire broke out Wednesday morning in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House compound, which houses the Vice President Dick Cheney's ceremonial off...