2010-06-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

LOS ANGELES, June 15 (Xinhua) -- Driven by tax incentives and low mortgage rates, homes sales in the Los Angeles County rose 12. 3 percent in May, compared to the same month a year ago, a real estate

2010-06-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

LONDON, June 15 (Xinhua) -- Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has made a bid for the whole of BritishSkyBroadcasting (BSkyB) through his News Corporation arm, in a deal which could be worth up to 10 billion

2010-06-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, June 15 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Federal Reserve on Tuesday approved a final rule to protect credit card users from unreasonable late payment and other penalty fees, and to require credit card

2010-06-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, June 14 (Xinhua) -- The United States has discovered vast deposits of untapped minerals in Afghanistan, enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan war-torn economy, the New York Times report

2010-06-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

PARIS, June 14 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said here on Monday that the inquiry group established by Israel for the raid against humanitarian flotilla to Gaza didn't correspond wi

2010-06-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

BEIJING, June 14 (Xinhua) -- Widespread riots have for days rattled southern Kyrgyzstan, leaving at least 124 dead and 1,685 injured. The unrest has caused grave concern in the international community

2010-06-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, June 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama announced on Monday the names of five other members of a seven- member presidential commission on oil spill.The five members are Frances G.

2010-06-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

BERLIN, June 14 (Xinhua) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy highlighted international financial reforms and narrowed their difference on Monday.Berlin and Paris wi

2010-06-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

LONDON, June 14 (Xinhua) -- Britain's new Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday told the House of Commons that the war in Afghanistan had reached a critical phase, and warned of further casualties.B

2010-06-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, June 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks erased most of early gains on Monday after Greece's sovereign rating was downgraded to junk status.Moody's Investors Service slashed Greece's government-bo

2010-06-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

LONDON, June 14 (Xinhua) -- Britain's newly-established Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) on Monday cut the economic growth forecast of 2011, setting the baseline for the new government's emerg

2010-06-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

TOKYO, June 14 (Xinhua) -- Japan's Nikkei stock index climbed 1. 80 percent on Monday as a weaker yen against the euro made export- related issues an attractive proposition and improved consumer sent

2010-06-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

LOS ANGELES, June 13 (Xinhua) -- Dozens of aftershocks have occurred in parts of Southern California following two moderate quakes Saturday night, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said on Sunday.Some

2010-06-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

GAZA, June 13 (Xinhua) -- Lifting Israel's blockade on Gaza and ending internal Palestinian division have become a priority to the Arab world, Arab League chief Amr Moussa said at the end of a one- d

2010-06-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

LONDON, June 13 (Xinhua) -- British new coalition government's business secretary has given a strong indication that there will be legislation to split banks into retail and invest arms, as a guard a

2010-06-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

MOSCOW, June 13 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev discussed the situation in Kyrgyzstan Sunday in a telephone conversation with head of the Kyrgyz interim government Roza Otunbayeva, calli

2010-06-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

JERUSALEM, June 14 (Xinhua) -- Israel is about to form an internal panel with two international observers to probe into the navy's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla some two weeks ago, Israeli

2010-06-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

LONDON, June 13 (Xinhua) -- The professional head of Britain's three armed services will retire early, a leading figure in the new coalition government confirmed on Sunday, in a move which heralds si

2010-06-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

BEIJING, June 14 (Xinhuanet) -- Faster-than-expected export growth in May is unlikely to prompt the government to have a major rethink of its current policies on trade and the currency.Yao Jian, spo

2010-06-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

BEIJING, June 13 (Xinhua) -- Some members of the U.S. congress are playing a dangerous game by manipulating the Chinese yuan debate for domestic political gains.These congressmen, prompted by a need t

2010-06-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, June 12 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama called on Senate Republicans Saturday to stop blocking a vote that would prevent a 21 percent pay cut for doctors.More than a decade ago, Co

2010-06-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

BEIJING, June 12 (Xinhuanet) -- A 16-year-old California girl who lost contact as she tried to circumnavigate the globe in her yacht has been rescued in the Indian Ocean by a French fishing boat, medi

2010-06-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, June 12 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday called British Prime Minister David Cameron, discussing the impact of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and a range of world

2010-06-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

LONDON, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Britain's Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her official birthday on Saturday in traditional manner on Saturday, by reviewing troops from her Guards regiments and viewing a fl

2010-06-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, June 12 (Xinhua) -- A strong earthquake measuring 7.7 magnitude on the Richter scale hit near Nicobar Islands, India early Sunday local time, the United States Geological Survey reported, an