2010-02-25 所属栏目:欧美文化

BRUSSELS, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- World trade fell by 12 percent last year amid the economic crisis, the worst decline in more than six decades, the World Trade Organization (WTO) chief said on Wednesday.

2010-02-25 所属栏目:欧美文化

CHICAGO, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- General Motors Co. has started shutting down Hummer, after a proposed deal to sell the rugged brand to a Chinese company collapsed, a senior company official said on Wedne

2010-02-25 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Oil prices rebounded back to 80 U. S. dollars a barrel on Wednesday as the dollar lost ground after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said key interest rate will stay

2010-02-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

LONDON, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- The Downing Street on Tuesday condemned the car bomb attack outside Newry courthouse in County Down, Northern Ireland.A Downing Street spokesman joined the denouncement of

2010-02-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

TEHRAN, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- Iran's new letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said it was ready for a simultaneous fuel swap within its territory, Iran's English- language satellite

2010-02-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

DOHA, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- The Sudanese government late Tuesday signed here a ceasefire agreement with the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), a key rebel group in Darfur, in a big step toward ending

2010-02-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

ANKARA, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- Seventeen people were killed in a gas explosion in a coal mine in Balikesir province of northwest Turkey on Tuesday, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.Balikes

2010-02-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday called Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in an effort to push a nuclear arm control process guided by a

2010-02-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

BAGHDAD, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- A poll shows 63 percent of Iraq's registered voters will go to the polls in the March 7 parliamentary election, lower than the 69.97 percent in the first parliamentary el

2010-02-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- Toyota Motor Corp.'s U.S. sales chief, James Lentz, apologized for the company's handling of safety issues in Tuesday's hearing in U.S. Congress."In recent months, w

2010-02-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

BEIJING, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- Access to finance for China's small enterprises generally improved in 2009, but still was not good enough, said the country's top banking regulator on Tuesday.Outstandin

2010-02-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

TOKYO, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- The government of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) said Tuesday that the economy is slowly picking up, despite risks to the nation's economic recovery, in a report relea

2010-02-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

TOKYO, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Japan's exports grew by 40.9 percent in January compared to the same month in the previous year, according to statistics released by the finance ministry on Wednesday.The t

2010-02-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- The dollar rose against most major currencies on Tuesday as a weak U.S. consumer confidence report and worries over Europe's recovery boosted safety-haven demand for the

2010-02-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

STOCKHOLM, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- General Motors (GM) on Tuesday announced that Dutch sports carmaker Spyker and it had finalized the deal for Spyker to purchase the Swedish brand car company Saab.Spyker

2010-02-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- Iran's plan to build two additional uranium enrichment plants is further evidence showing its rejection of cooperation with the international community on the controve

2010-02-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- Mexico's President Felipe Calderon Monday formally opened the 24-nation Group of Rio Summit in Playa del Carmen, a resort town on Mexico's Caribbean coa

2010-02-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama Monday released a health care reform proposal in an attempt to save the bill that has been stuck in Congress since the Democratic Party lost

2010-02-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

BERLIN, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- German airline Lufthansa's pilots launched a four-day strike Monday, after talks on pay raise and job security failed over the weekend, which grounded about two- thirds of

2010-02-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- The man accused of plotting to set off homemade bombs in the subway system of New York last year pled guilty Monday to charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destru

2010-02-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

BAGHDAD, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- At least 22 people were killed in a new string of attacks across Iraq on Monday, a sign of growing violence as the country gears up for next month's crucial parliamentary

2010-02-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- Toyota Motor Corp. repeatedly discounted the idea that electronic problems could be to blame for sudden acceleration incidents, and the government's response was "seri

2010-02-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday that the new credit card rules have marked a " significant turning point" for U.S. consumers."The new rules taking effect tod

2010-02-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

BRUSSELS, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- Greece failed to reply to the European Union (EU) by Friday on its alleged collusion with Wall Street banks to reduce deficit figures because of strikes, the European Com

2010-02-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

LONDON, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Monday that international business and government should work together to secure a global recovery in 2010.Brown made the remark