2009-12-20 所属栏目:欧美文化

LONDON, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- Car production in Britain rose for the first time in a year during November, a leading industry body said on Saturday. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (S

2009-12-20 所属栏目:欧美文化

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- The 39 branches of the failed First Federal Bank of California (FFBC) reopened on Saturday as branches of OneWest Bank. FFBC, which was founded in 1929, was closed

2009-12-20 所属栏目:欧美文化

LONDON, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- More than 2,000 people were trapped for hours inside the Channel Tunnel after four Eurostar trains broke down due to cold weather, according local news reports on Saturday.

2009-12-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

COPENHAGEN, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday the United States and Russia are "quite close to an agreement" on further nuclear arms reduction after meeting his Russian co

2009-12-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

COPENHAGEN, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- World leaders have reached a deal to fight climate change on Friday after tense negotiations in Copenhagen, Chinese sources in the talks said. There will be a closi

2009-12-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

TEHRAN, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Iranians held rallies across the country on Friday to condemn the alleged insult to late supreme leader and father of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khomeini. In Tehr

2009-12-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

BERLIN, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- German business confidence reached a 17-month high in December, according to a key economic survey released on Friday. The Munich-based Ifo economic institute's busine

2009-12-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Crude prices rose on Friday after reports said two major oil producers -- Iran and Iraq -- are in tension. Iraq's Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammed Haj Mahmoud said I

2009-12-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

CHICAGO, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- U.S. automaker General Motors made its first payment of 1 billion U.S. dollars toward its 6.7 billion dollars in outstanding U.S. government loans on Friday, 13 days ahead

2009-12-18 所属栏目:欧美文化

BEIRUT, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- A commercial ship with 82 passengers on board sank on Thursday night near north Lebanon city Tripoli, only four persons have been rescued till now, Lebanese official Nation

2009-12-18 所属栏目:欧美文化

ROME, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was released from hospital on Thursday and will spend the initial part of his recovery at his villa outside Milan. The 73-year-old premier w

2009-12-18 所属栏目:欧美文化

LONDON, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- British High Court ruled on Thursday that a strike by British Airways (BA) cabin crew planned for Christmas is illegal. The court granted the order to BA, which argued

2009-12-18 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- Wall Street extended losses on Thursday as an unexpected jump in new jobless data and a stronger U.S. dollar weighed on the market. All major indexes dropped more than 1

2009-12-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to raise the 12.1-trillion national debt limit by 290 billion U.S. dollars. House lawmakers approved the small

2009-12-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

MOSCOW, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- NATO Secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Wednesday asked for greater Russian assistance for the Western military alliance's operations in Afghanistan, but received

2009-12-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

COPENHAGEN, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- A battle is brewing over the future of the Kyoto Protocol, with the European Union saying Wednesday it was not enough to curb climate change and an agreement that was l

2009-12-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Federal Reserve said on Wednesday that the U.S. economic activity has continued to "pick up," and it decided to keep a key interest rate unchanged at a record

2009-12-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed into law a 1.1-trillion-dollar spending bill for fiscal year 2010, except for the Defense Department. The Democratic

2009-12-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama has no plan to sign an arms control treaty with Russia during his trip to Denmark's Copenhagen this week, according to the White House on T

2009-12-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

KUWAIT CITY, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Gulf Arab states on Tuesday showed their praise for efforts of the Sudanese government in addressing the crisis in the western region of Darfur. In a communique is

2009-12-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

COPENHAGEN, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday called for a "fair, ambitious and comprehensive" deal on combating global warming at the Copenhagen climate talks and expect

2009-12-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Wall Street retreated Tuesday, after closing at new highs for the year in the previous session, pressured by higher-than-expected wholesale inflation data. According

2009-12-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

GENEVA, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- The world's airlines are expected to suffer a net loss of 5.6 billion U.S. dollars in 2010, larger than the previously forecast loss of 3.8 billion dollars, the Internatio

2009-12-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

LONDON, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) shareholders have voted on Tuesday at an extraordinary general meeting to join the British government's Assets Protection Scheme (APS), which

2009-12-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

ROME, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's conditions are more serious than expected, the doctor in charge of him said on Monday. Berlusconi was attacked and injured in the