2009-03-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

BERLIN, March 11 (Xinhua) -- Germany was shocked by a tragic school shooting on Wednesday which killed 16 people, including the 17-year-old gunman apparently killing himself in a standoff with police.

2009-03-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, March 11 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks ended modestly higher on Wednesday as technology companies rebounded. Stocks opened higher in the morning after Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said

2009-03-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, March 11 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he was optimistic about the prospects for success at the G20 summit, urging other countries to take aggressive stimulus

2009-03-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, March 11 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed a 410-billion-dollar spending bill to keep the government operating until fiscal year 2010 begins on Oct. 1. But Obama

2009-03-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

BAGHDAD, March 10 (Xinhua) -- At least 33 Iraqis were killed in a suicide attack in the west of Baghdad on Tuesday, raising concerns of the resurgence of violence in the war-torn country. The atta

2009-03-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

GAZA, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Amidst division and deep differences on standings, the two rival Palestinian movements, Fatah and Hamas, along with the rest of Palestinian factions, began a new round of di

2009-03-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, March 10 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday laid out the details of his plan to overhaul the country's education system "from the cradle up through a career." "We have

2009-03-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Wall Street rebounded strongly on Tuesday with all major indexes gaining more than 5 percent and Dow Jones going back above 6,900 points. Financials led the way up.

2009-03-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Bernard Madoff, who was charged with Wall Street's biggest fraud, will plead guilty on Thursday to 11 criminal counts, his lawyer Ira Sorkin said on Tuesday. Sorkin

2009-03-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

BELGRADE, Mar. 9 (Xinhua) -- Croatia accepted on Monday the initiative of the European Union to provide mediation in the border dispute with Slovenia, but under the condition that the mediation leads

2009-03-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, March 9 (Xinhua) -- The United States on Monday defended its annual military exercises with South Korea while accusing the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) of making "bellicos

2009-03-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, March 9 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday issued an executive order that allows federal money to fund expanded embryonic stem cell research, which scientists say is "a grea

2009-03-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Nouriel Roubini, a professor at New York University who predicted the current financial crisis, said Monday that the U.S. recession could drag on for years without drasti

2009-03-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, March 9 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks fell on Monday as a prevailing pessimism on the economy offset the recovering financial shares. Nasdaq shed nearly 2 percent as technology shares led the way

2009-03-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

KHARTOUM, March 8 (Xinhua) -- The Sudanese Authority of Parties and Political Organizations announced Sunday that President Omar al-Bashir is qualified to participate in the next general election desp

2009-03-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, March 8 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. government condemned on Sunday the killing of two British soldiers in Northern Ireland by republican dissident suspects. "The United States condemns the at

2009-03-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

JERUSALEM, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Israel's Justice Ministry on Sunday announced that former President Moshe Katsav will be indicted for rape and other sexual offenses. The move, which will turn Kats

2009-03-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, March 8 (Xinhua) -- The World Bank said on Sunday that the global economy will shrink in 2009 for the first time since World War Two and estimated developing countries face a financing sho

2009-03-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

TOKYO, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Japan logged its first current account deficit in 13 years in January of 172.8 billion yen (1.8 billion U.S. dollars), the Finance Ministry data showed Monday. It was th

2009-03-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

BAGHDAD, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki renewed Saturday his calls on all Iraqis to reconcile and unite after years of differences in the war-torn country. "National recon

2009-03-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

KHARTOUM, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir Saturday told a rally that the country does not allow any breach of the peace process and would never return to war, the state televisio

2009-03-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

JOHANNESBURG, March 7 (Xinhua) -- South Africa was not going to copy the United States' stimulus packages initiative, South African President Kgalema Motlanthe told business people in KwaZulu-Natal'

2009-03-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Mar. 7 (Xinhua) -- Bernard Madoff, accused mastermind of a 50-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme in the United States, may be ready to plead guilty in a deal with prosecutors, according to a report

2009-03-07 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, March 6 (Xinhua) -- The Obama administration vowed Friday to do what is necessary to break the cycle of job loss. "We will continue to do whatever is necessary to break the destructive

2009-03-07 所属栏目:欧美文化

GENEVA, March 6 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met here on Friday evening in Geneva. This is the first time for Clinton to hold talk