2009-10-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

PARIS, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- One of two men arrested by French police on suspicion of having ties to Al-Qaeda is a physicist working at the world's largest atom smasher, local media reported Saturday.

2009-10-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani military commandos early Sunday rescued 25 people who were held hostage by a group of armed militants inside the military headquarters for nearly 20

2009-10-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- All 11 people aboard were killed on Friday when a UN plane crashed near the Haiti-Dominican border, a UN spokesperson said here. There are no survivors in the ac

2009-10-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama said Friday that he was surprised to learn that he won the Nobel Peace Prize of 2009, which he saw as a "call for action." Speaking to re

2009-10-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

GAZA/RAMALLAH, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Supporters of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party in the West Bank and Islamic Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip held on Friday separate demonstrations t

2009-10-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

HOUSTON, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- AT&T, one of the leading worldwide providers of IP-based communications services to businesses, on Friday announced a new unlimited talk and text plan for the company's pr

2009-10-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

CHICAGO, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- After finalizing the agreement about the sale of Hummer, James Taylor, the Chief Executive Officer of General Motor's legend brand Hummer, showed his strong confidence tha

2009-10-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

TEGUCIGALPA, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- The negotiating teams representing Manuel Zelaya, deposed from Honduras' presidency in a June 28 coup, and Roberto Micheletti, who took power after the coup, on Thursd

2009-10-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan wants 40,000 more troops as the minimum in a request sent to U.S. President Barack Obama. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the

2009-10-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- The UN Security Council on Thursday condemned "in the strongest terms" the "terrorist" suicide attack that occurred at the Indian Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, earl

2009-10-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

CHICAGO, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- The revamped board of directors of U.S. automaker General Motors Co. is spending the next month poring over the automaker's business plan with CEO and President Fritz Hend

2009-10-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

CHICAGO, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Thursday approved the sale of Sun-Times Media Group to a group of Chicago businessmen led by James Tyree. According to sources of Sun-Times M

2009-10-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. government said on Thursday that it has asked the World Trade Organization (WTO) to establish a dispute settlement panel regarding the European Union's (EU) re

2009-10-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

TEGUCIGALPA, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- Manuel Zelaya, who was deposed from Honduras' presidency in a June 28 military coup, on Wednesday called on the visiting Organization of American States (OAS) mission

2009-10-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- The bottom line for the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan is no deep cuts in troop levels, President Barack Obama told congressional leaders. During a session with a bipa

2009-10-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

TEHRAN, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Wednesday that Iran has no plan to join the Additional Protocol of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the official IRNA new

2009-10-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- U.S. consumer credit fell by a 5.8 percent annual rate in August to 2.46 trillion dollars, the Federal Reserve reported Wednesday. The 12 billion dollar decrease, mu

2009-10-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

TOKYO, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- Japan's current account surplus expanded 10.4 percent year-on-year in August to 1,171.2 billion (13.16 billion U.S. dollars), buoyed by a sharp fall in imports, the finance

2009-10-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

HOUSTON, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- U.S. oil major ConocoPhillips said Wednesday it plans to sell 10 billion U.S. dollars of assets in the next two years and cut capital spending in 2010 in a bid to improve i

2009-10-07 所属栏目:欧美文化

AMMAN, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- Feuding Palestinian factions will sign a reconciliation agreement in Cairo on Oct. 25, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said in Amman, according to the report of Jo

2009-10-07 所属栏目:欧美文化

UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations launched an appeal for 74 million U.S. dollars Tuesday to help 1 million flood-stricken people in the Philippines for the next six months. Som

2009-10-07 所属栏目:欧美文化

BAGHDAD, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- At least nine people were killed and 31 others injured in a car bomb explosion at a busy marketplace in Iraq's western city of Fallujah on Tuesday, an Interior Ministry so

2009-10-07 所属栏目:欧美文化

PARIS, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- French leading bank Societe Generale (SocGen) announced Tuesday a capital increase of 4.8 billion euros(7.1 billion dollars), which allows it to early repay government's fin

2009-10-07 所属栏目:欧美文化

CHICAGO, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- Chicago-based Boeing Company announced Tuesday it is expecting to report a one-billion dollar charge because of a delay in producing a new version of the 747 freighter jet.

2009-10-06 所属栏目:欧美文化

BRUSSELS, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- Two top Dutch officials have welcomed the Irish 'yes' vote to the Lisbon Treaty, the Dutch government said on its website on Monday. Foreign Minister Maxiem Verhagen sai