2011-05-18 所属栏目:欧美文化

Trade ministers with the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum meet this week in the western U.S. state of Montana. The meeting is one of a series leading up to an APEC summit in Hawaii in No

2011-05-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

Russia says it wants legal guarantees from the United States that a proposed missile defense shield for Europe will not threaten Russian security.Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Monday tha

2011-05-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

World Health Organization Director General Margaret Chan reports new vaccines, medicines and other technologies are successfully combating killer diseases and saving lives. Chan delivered a generally

2011-05-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

A European Union finance ministers meeting is being overshadowed by the euro zone's ongoing economic problems and sexual assault charges against International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Ka

2011-05-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, John Boehner, says he stands ready to cut a budget deal with President Barack Obama - so long as no taxes are raised, leaving deep spending cuts as th

2011-05-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

New York City police say they expect to formally charge the head of the International Monetary Fund early Sunday with criminal sexual assault, attempted rape and the unlawful imprisonment of a hotel m

2011-05-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

The U.S. space agency NASA is preparing the space shuttle Endeavour for a Monday launch, its final voyage before retiring and the next-to-last launch for the 30-year space shuttle program.The Endeavou

2011-05-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

U.S. President Barack Obama is announcing a new initiative to increase domestic oil production, while moving toward lowering the country's dependence on imported oil.In his weekly address Saturday, O

2011-05-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

The head of the International Monetary Fund has been arrested in New York City and accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid.New York police spokesman Paul Browne says Dominique Stra

2011-05-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

BUCHAREST, May 14 (Xinhua) -- The National Convention of the Democratic Liberal Party, Romania's ruling party, re-elected on Saturday Prime Minister Emil Boc as its president.The election was conduct

2011-05-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

It is widely agreed that the plot to mount terrorist attacks in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001 sprung from the mind of Osama bin Laden. But less certain is his role after U.S. forces routed bin L

2011-05-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, May 13 (Xinhua) -- U.S. crude oil price edged up on Friday after an earlier drop on the stronger dollar, but still closed below 100 dollars a barrel for the third straight day.The crude pric

2011-05-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, May 13 (Xinhua) -- Wall Street suffered a turbulent week as investors weighed Greek debt problems, inflation concerns and the recent volatility in commodities markets for direction.According

2011-05-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

U.S. officials say Osama bin Laden's handwritten journal shows the al-Qaida leader urging his followers to focus on targeting the United States in a large-scale attack.

Media reports quote the off

2011-05-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

The Advisory Committee of President Barack Obama's 100,000 Strong Initiative, which encourages Americans to study in China, is led by former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel and departing Chicago Mayor R

2011-05-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

Executives of five large oil companies are attacking proposals to cut $4 billion in annual U.S. government subsidies, even as their profits have soared and American motorists are facing near-record pr

2011-05-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

The leader of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula has warned the United States of more attacks in retaliation for last week's killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.In a statement posted on the Interne

2011-05-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

The European Space Agency (ESA) says it has observed fast-moving cosmic storms of star-forming gases that will help scientists unravel some of the mysteries of how galaxies and stars form and continue

2011-05-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

Experts say climate change is contributing to more and more conflicts around the world, especially in Africa. Researchers and aid agencies say they are doing their best to help reduce this trend.At a

2011-05-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says food prices in Asia remain high despite a brief drop in April. According to the FAO, the retail cost of wheat and rice in Asia declined slight

2011-05-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

Internet search giant Google says it will lodge an appeal with Switzerland's highest court after a lower court ruled the company's Street View service must obscure all of the faces and auto license

2011-05-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

The Greek government is moving toward restructuring its debt and could soon win approval for another $85 billion or more in international financing.News agencies reported on Tuesday that a year after

2011-05-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

Soaring food prices, one of the triggers that toppled former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, helped push the country's annual inflation rate past 12 percent in April.Egypt's statistical agency rep

2011-05-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to join fellow foreign ministers from the eight-nation Arctic Council on Thursday in Greenland's capital, Nuuk, for a meeting on polar region issue

2011-05-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

The White House says the United States expects a full and complete investigation by Pakistan into what the United States calls a presumed support network that allowed Osama bin Laden to live in Pakist