2011-09-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

A decade after Islamic terrorists hijacked four passenger planes and turned them into weapons to claim nearly 3,000 lives, people in the United States on Sunday somberly marked the September 11 annive

2011-09-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

Europe is commemorating the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the United States amid heightened security after police in Sweden detained four people suspected of plotting a terrorist att

2011-09-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

Japan fell silent Sunday in a solemn minute of prayer and reflection marking six months since the massive earthquake and tsunami that left 20,000 people dead or missing and sparked a nuclear crisis.Si

2011-09-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

One day before the tenth anniversary of the September 11th terror attacks, President Barack Obama is paying tribute to those who were lost that day, those who tried to save their lives, and members of

2011-09-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

An estimated 100,000 people gathered Saturday in Russia's western city of Yaroslavl to honor the victims of a plane crash that devastated a local ice hockey team.Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin

2011-09-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

International financial institutions have promised $38 billion more to four Arab countries trying to transition to democracy, nearly doubling a previous pledge.French Finance Minister Francois Baroin

2011-09-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

President Barack Obama has begun trying to build public support for his plan to ease unemployment and boost the U.S. economy. The president started the campaign Friday in nearby Richmond, Virginia.

2011-09-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

Congressional reaction has been mixed to President Barack Obama's plan to give a jolt to the stalled U.S. economy and create jobs. Democrats reacted enthusiastically to the president's proposals to

2011-09-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

Finance ministers and central bankers of leading industrialized nations are meeting through Saturday in the southern French city of Marseilles to assess how to counter growing financial and economic p

2011-09-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

U.S. officials say they have discovered information about what they are calling a "credible threat" of a specific attack planned to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrori

2011-09-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

Growth for the world's biggest economies is expected to stall in the last three months of this year, according to the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The new findin

2011-09-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

President Barack Obama's speech on the U.S. economy is just the latest in a long history of government proposals to stimulate economies and put people back to work. But with the U.S. economy expandin

2011-09-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

The head of Europe's central bank says threats to the economy in the 17 nations that use the euro have sharply increased, and growth prospects have diminished.European Central Bank President Jean-Cla

2011-09-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

A private Russian jet carrying a local ice hockey team crashed shortly after takeoff Wednesday in western Russia, killing at least 43 people.The accident killed members of the local Lokomotiv Yaroslav

2011-09-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

As President Barack Obama prepares to unveil proposals to spur U.S. economic growth and job creation, a bipartisan committee of lawmakers tasked with slashing the federal deficit prepares to convene f

2011-09-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

Lawmakers in Italy and Spain voted Wednesday in favor of their government's austerity plans, despite massive protests in both countries.Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi survived a confidence

2011-09-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

HOUSTON, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- British oil giant BP announced Wednesday it had a major oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico.An appraisal well the company drilled in a previously untested northern segment

2011-09-07 所属栏目:欧美文化

U.S. stock indexes fell again Tuesday on investor fears about another U.S. recession and Europe's troubled economy.The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped one percent (101 points) to close at 11,139

2011-09-07 所属栏目:欧美文化

Switzerland is moving to protect its exporters hurt by Europe's financial crisis, putting a cap on the franc's exchange rate against the euro.With world stock markets experiencing huge swings in val

2011-09-07 所属栏目:欧美文化

Russia has started feeding natural gas into a Baltic Sea pipeline that will deliver supplies to western Europe, while bypassing traditional transit routes in Ukraine.Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Pu

2011-09-06 所属栏目:欧美文化

U.S. President Barack Obama says America’s jobless should be put to work as part of a comprehensive program to boost a languishing economy. The president marked Monday’s U.S. Labor Day holiday with

2011-09-06 所属栏目:欧美文化

Asia's key stock indexes fell sharply Monday, largely on disappointing data about employment in the world's biggest economy.Japan’s benchmark index, the Nikkei, dropped 166 points, closing off near

2011-09-06 所属栏目:欧美文化

The United Nations says more than half of Somalia's population, four million people, is now in crisis as famine spreads, and 750,000 are at risk of death.The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Human

2011-09-05 所属栏目:欧美文化

Days before President Barack Obama is expected to unveil proposals to boost America’s sluggish economy and reduce stubbornly high unemployment, the White House is hearing conflicting messages from la

2011-09-05 所属栏目:欧美文化

OSAKA, Japan, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- A powerful typhoon which made landfall on Shikoku Island Saturday continued to ravage western Japan on Sunday,leaving 15 people dead and 43 missing , Kyodo News repor