2011-10-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

Lawyers for former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko have announced plans to appeal her seven-year jail sentence.Tymoshenko was convicted by a Kyiv court Tuesday of abuse of power in a gas dea

2011-10-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

The U.S. Congress has approved free trade pacts with South Korea, Colombia and Panama - the first such accords passed during Barack Obama’s presidency. Backers say the trade deals will boost U.S. exp

2011-10-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

BRUSSELS, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) --- The European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Wednesday called for comprehensive solutions to current crisis.Barroso made the speech in European Parliament de

2011-10-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed a controversial currency bill which threatens to punish China for so-called "currency manipulation" with retaliatory tariffs, despite

2011-10-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

Italy says U.S. and British forces have freed an Italian vessel that was hijacked off Somalia on Monday.The MV Montecristo had been seized 1,000 kilometers off Somalia's eastern coast, carrying 23 cr

2011-10-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

The oil-producing OPEC cartel has for the fourth straight month trimmed its estimate of world demand for oil for the rest of this year and in 2012.The 12-nation Organization of the Petroleum Exporting

2011-10-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

Americans Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims share the 2011 Nobel prize in economics for providing ways to understand the impact of policy changes on the economy. The prize is based on old research t

2011-10-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

Belgium decided Monday to buy a subsidiary of the financially troubled Dexia bank, the first victim of new European worries about the spread of Greece's debt crisis.The Belgian government said it is

2011-10-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- The efforts of Occupy Wall Street protesters appeared to be gaining steam as they camped out at Lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park for the 24th day on Monday.Since Sept. 17

2011-10-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

French and German leaders say they will present plans to stabilize the crisis-stricken eurozone by the end of the month. The agreement by Europe's two economic powerhouses comes ahead of a key Group

2011-10-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

As economic crises intensify in Europe, governments are cutting budgets and ordinary people are tightening their belts. Even richer countries, like the Netherlands, are bracing for hard times to come

2011-10-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

BERLIN, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- France and Germany will present new proposals to stabilize the eurozone by the end of this month and push forward some "important changes" in the European treaties, visiting

2011-10-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

U.S. President Barack Obama is stepping up his appeal to Senators to pass his jobs bill in Tuesday's expected vote.During his weekly address Saturday, Obama said the $447 billion American Jobs Act wo

2011-10-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

As economic crises intensify in Europe, governments are cutting budgets and ordinary people are tightening their belts. Even richer countries, like the Netherlands, are bracing for hard times to come

2011-10-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

Europe's financial crisis has deepened this week as worries rose about the health of another bank - the Franco-Belgian-owned Dexia. Dexia's board meets Saturday to discuss the bank's future. Dexia

2011-10-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

The U.S. economy added 103,000 jobs in September, but the nation's unemployment rate held steady at 9.1 percent for the third straight month. Although September's job growth was stronger than most

2011-10-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

Researchers in Sydney are leading a new international effort to make desalination more environmentally friendly. Current techniques tend to use excessive amounts of energy or are heavily reliant on ch

2011-10-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the credit ratings of 12 British banks over concerns that the government will not provide adequate support to the institutions if they become financially trou

2011-10-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny says Ireland is aiming to be the first to exit its international bailout and resume financing its government operations on its own.Kenny told an international economic

2011-10-07 所属栏目:欧美文化

When Steve Jobs died Wednesday, the business world lost a marketing genius - one of the world's most creative and successful innovators. Jobs, who is credited with rescuing the company he founded an

2011-10-07 所属栏目:欧美文化

The Swedish Academy awarded one of Sweden’s most famous living poets, Tomas Tranströmer, the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday - making him the first Swede in nearly 40 years to win th

2011-10-07 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday expressed "concerns" about a controversial Senate bill on the so-called "currency manipulation" by China, saying it should be con

2011-10-06 所属栏目:欧美文化

Apple co-founder and former chief executive Steve Jobs has died. Jobs was 56 years old and had been battling cancer for nearly a decade.The technology company issued a statement on its website late W

2011-10-06 所属栏目:欧美文化

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has warned NATO countries the U.S. may not be able to sustain operations like those in Libya and Afghanistan as it tries to deal with its own budget problems. Panet

2011-10-06 所属栏目:欧美文化

A U.S. congressional committee has approved three long-pending free trade deals that will be sent to the House of Representatives for final approval next week.The House and Ways Committee Wednesday ac