2010-10-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

ISLAMABAD, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- The death toll has risen to nine following a U.S. drone strike launched late Wednesday night in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of North Waziristan, reported local med

2010-10-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks extended rally to the fourth straight day on Wednesday,lifted by strong performances among commodities and upbeat corporate earnings.The Dow Jones industrial

2010-10-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

CANBERRA, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Australian dollar hit a 28 year high as it edged closer to parity with the U.S. dollar, rising to a new post-float record of 99.70 U.S. cents on Thursday morning.At 1

2010-10-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's central bank on Thursday decided to leave the key interest rate at the current level of 2.25 percent for the third straight month.In its monthly monetary comm

2010-10-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

CHICAGO, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- Gold futures on the COMEX Division of the New York Mercantile Exchange reached new highs on Wednesday, lifted by a weaker U.S. Dollar and rising inflationary expectations,

2010-10-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

TOKYO, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Japan's wholesale prices dipped 0.1 percent in September from a year earlier, the Bank of Japan said in a report on Thursday.The reading of Japan's corporate goods price i

2010-10-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. government on Tuesday lifted a moratorium on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico that was imposed after the BP oil spill.Interior Secretary Ken Salaza

2010-10-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama, who campaigned tirelessly all over the country for struggling Democrats, is to traverse coast to coast in the remainder of the month for mo

2010-10-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

SAN JOSE MINE, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- The capsule reached the miners some 700 meters underground and the first miner is ready to enter the capsule in the shelter.The operation to rescue the 33 miners tra

2010-10-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- Colombia, Germany, India, Portugal and South Africa were elected on Tuesday to the UN Security Council as the non-permanent members of the most powerful UN body.The

2010-10-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

PARIS, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- Millions of French people took to the streets Tuesday for the fourth major wave of protests in a month over the government's pension reform and opponents have promised more

2010-10-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

KIEV, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- As many as 43 people were killed and 9 others were injured when a bus collided with a train locomotive on Tuesday morning in the Dnipropetrovsk region in eastern Ukraine, off

2010-10-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Federal Reserve announced Tuesday that it was prepared to take further moves to jump-start the sagging U.S. economy if needed."The incoming data indicated that

2010-10-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

TOKYO, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- The overall level of bank lending in Japan fell 1.8 percent from a year earlier in September, marking the 10th straight month of decline, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) said in a r

2010-10-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- Intel Corp. on Tuesday reported record revenue in its most recent quarter, citing robust corporate demand for computing products. In the company's fiscal third quar

2010-10-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

ATHENS, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- Greece raised 1.17 billion euros (1.61 billion U.S. dollars) Tuesday in an auction of six-month treasury bills, the Greek Debt Management Agency (GDMA) said.The agency had

2010-10-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

BISHKEK, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- Five parties have passed the 5- percent threshold at the Kyrgyz parliamentary election, according to the final data obtained through the Central Election Commission 's au

2010-10-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday highlighted the importance of infrastructure projects to the U.S. economic growth and job creation efforts."We need a new plan for

2010-10-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

SAN JOSE MINE, Chile, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- The operation to lift out 33 miners trapped for over two months in northern Chile will kick off early Wednesday, Mining Minister Laurence Golborne said Monday

2010-10-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

BUDAPEST, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- The chief executive of the Hungarian aluminum plant that had a toxic sludge spill last week has been detained and the company will be taken over by the government, Prime

2010-10-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

JERUSALEM, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday if the Palestinians agree to recognize Israel as the Jewish nation's state, he could extend the settlement constru

2010-10-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- The plastic explosive C4 found on Monday in a historic cemetery on New York City's Lower East Side was not likely to explode without a detonator, officials said.Nine sti

2010-10-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday highlighted the importance of infrastructure projects to the U.S. economic growth and job creation efforts."We need a new plan for

2010-10-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

THE HAGUE, Oct. 11 (Xinhua)-- The Netherlands may lose its seat in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) it has held since 1944, Dutch media reported Monday.During its annual meeting in Washington, th

2010-10-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

BEIJING, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- The international financial market is now undergoing great turbulence and people are afraid that the Pandora's Box of a "currency war" might be opened. Yet no one will be