2011-04-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, April 22 (Xinhua) -- As Americans are clamoring for a fact-based debate about the government budget,the numbers they are hearing from Washington are terribly confusing, a renowned U.S. eco

2011-04-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

A robotic U.S. space probe circling Mars has discovered a massive deposit of frozen carbon dioxide beneath the red planet's southern pole. U.S. space agency scientists say the evidence suggests that

2011-04-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

Millions of people around the world celebrated Earth Day Friday by pledging to commit personal “acts of green” to improve the environment.This is the 41st anniversary of the first Earth Day, observe

2011-04-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

India is planning to increase the pace of economic growth in the coming years.At a meeting Thursday to set out the future path of the country's economic policy, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Ind

2011-04-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

Japan is the United States' fourth-largest trading partner, and trade had increased the first two months of this year -- before the earthquake and tsunami. Now the two busiest container ports in the

2011-04-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

As the price of crude oil rises on world markets, complaints from consumers, industries and politicians are also on the rise. Some blame the Organization of Petroleum Export Countries, the cartel know

2011-04-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

Almost six weeks after a devastating earthquake and tsunami sparked Japan's worst-ever nuclear crisis, the country's government is stepping up restrictions on the movement of people near the Fukushi

2011-04-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

An international team of scientists has developed a way to genetically modify the malaria mosquito so that it would be unable to transmit the disease to humans. Researchers say the method eventually m

2011-04-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

The U.S. government says it is going to monitor the sharply rising gasoline prices in the country to see if anyone is profiting illegally.The country's top legal official, Attorney General Eric Holde

2011-04-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

Interest rates on Greek, Portuguese and Irish debts climbed to new records on Thursday as investor fears mounted about the debt-ridden governments.The interest rate on Greece's 10-year bonds reached

2011-04-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

Japanese officials have decided to legally enforce an exclusion zone within 20 kilometers of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant starting at midnight Thursday.Japan's Kyodo news agency reports that

2011-04-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

The space shuttle Endeavour is set to blast off on its final mission at the end of this month. The U.S. space agency made the official announcement Tuesday afternoon after a thorough review of the sh

2011-04-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says U.S. economic policies amount to "hooliganism."Putin, in his annual address to the Russian parliament, said Wednesday that "everything is not so good for our

2011-04-20 所属栏目:欧美文化

The price of gold edged above a record $1,500 an ounce on Tuesday as investors looked for an alternative to the U.S. dollar.The price of gold has risen 31 percent in the last year. It shattered the ps

2011-04-20 所属栏目:欧美文化

Senior Obama administration officials on Tuesday discussed the timeline for sending renegotiated free trade agreements with Panama, Colombia and South Korea to Congress for consideration. After sever

2011-04-20 所属栏目:欧美文化

Regional environmentalists and scientists are angered by reports a Thai construction company has begun preliminary work at the site of a hydropower dam in northern Laos, before official go head has be

2011-04-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

Standard and Poor's Ratings Services announced Monday that the United States continues to have a AAA [Triple-A] credit rating, but the rating agency lowered its long-term credit outlook for the U.S.

2011-04-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

Regional environmentalists and scientists are angered by reports a Thai construction company has begun preliminary work at the site of a hydropower dam in northern Laos, before official go head has be

2011-04-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

Pripyat, Ukraine. A dead city. Homes, schoolrooms, playgrounds, and other places are crumbling as wild nature reclaims the land.Pripyat once had some 50,000 residents. Now they are gone, perhaps forev

2011-04-18 所属栏目:欧美文化

Japan and the United States have agreed to create a public-private partnership, under Tokyo's guidance, to help rebuild communities devastated by last month's magnitude 9.0 earthquake and resulting

2011-04-18 所属栏目:欧美文化

The operator of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says it will take between six to nine months to bring the reactors at the complex fully under control. A two-step plan published Sunday

2011-04-18 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, April 17 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner expressed confidence on Sunday that the U.S. Congress will raise the nation's borrowing cap."I want to make it perfectly clea

2011-04-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives has approved a budget plan that imposes dramatic spending cuts on several domestic programs, including those that provide health coverage for th

2011-04-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

Even as countries around the world are posting better economic growth rates two years after a global recession, officials from the International Monetary Fund say that is not enough to improve the liv

2011-04-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, April 16 (Xinhua) -- Food, financial and economic crisis, climate and environment, are the three big issues that could derail the world's sustained development, former vice president of t