2008-09-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

SOUTHAMPTON (UK), Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- Yacht sales, seen by many as one of the major barometers for the western economy, is heading down among the credit crunch, which is hitting the world, with the U

2008-09-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

TBILISI, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- Russian forces withdrew from positions near the Black Sea port of Poti and other positions in western Georgia on Saturday a month after a military conflict in the Caucasu

2008-09-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW DELHI, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- Eighteen people were killed and over 90 others injured in serial blasts in various parts of the Indian capital Delhi Saturday evening, officials said. The blasts al

2008-09-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- An engineer's error was blamed for Friday's deadly train collision in Los Angeles that killed at least 18 people and injured 135 others, a railway spokeswoman said

2008-09-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Over a million people have evacuated coastal Texas ahead of Hurricane Ike, which could devastate the U.S. Gulf Coast, the Governor of Texas said Friday. "I th

2008-09-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

MOSCOW, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Russia will develop cooperation with friendly countries in all areas even if some people do not like it, President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday. "We are interested

2008-09-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- The dollar fell against most major currencies on Friday amid disappointing U.S. retail sales and profit taking. The U.S. Commerce Department reported that retail sal

2008-09-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- New Yorkers gathered on Thursday morning in a somber ceremony near Ground Zero, site of the destroyed World Trade Center's twin towers in the September 11 terrorist str

2008-09-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

MOSCOW, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Russia has no imperial ambitions and will not infringe on the sovereignty of the former Soviet republics, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday. "Ru

2008-09-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- More Americans have shifted their focus of attention from terrorism to economy seven years after the "9.11" terror attack, a newspaper report said on Thursd

2008-09-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday that the Iraq war has entered "endgame," but the situation there remains "fragile." Speaking bef

2008-09-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

TBILISI, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- Georgia accused Russia on Wednesday of violating a cease-fire deal after a Georgian police officer was fatally shot near a Russian checkpoint close to the breakaway regio

2008-09-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

XIAMEN, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- As Coca-Cola Co. seeks to acquire China's largest juice company Huiyuan, a spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce said the government would insist on the principals of ma

2008-09-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- The race for the White House is now deadlocked at 47 percent for Democrat Barack Obama and 46 percent for Republican John McCain among registered voters, according to a

2008-09-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

MOSCOW, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- Russia has started closing military observation posts in buffer zones near Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, local media reported on Tuesday.

2008-09-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

VIENNA, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will hold its official crude oil production quota unchanged until mid-December, OPEC President Chakib Khelil emphas

2008-09-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

MOSCOW, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy reached here on Monday a new agreement on the implementation of a French-brokered cease-fire be

2008-09-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- Wall Street rallied Monday as the U.S. government's unusual move to bail out mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Treasury Department announced Sunday that it

2008-09-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

OTTAWA, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Sunday that the 39th Parliament has been dissolved and a general election will be held on Oct. 14. Harper's minority C

2008-09-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

JERUSALEM, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- Israeli police recommended on Sunday evening that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert should be indicted in two corruption cases. Micky Rosenfeld, spokesman for Israeli polic

2008-09-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. government said on Sunday that it will take over two mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in order to stabilize the financial market. Treasury Secret

2008-09-07 所属栏目:欧美文化

CAIRO, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- A massive landslide hit a shanty town in the east of the Egyptian capital of Cairo on Saturday, crushing dozens of houses and killing at least 23 people. The massive lan

2008-09-07 所属栏目:欧美文化

AVIGNON, France, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- European Union (EU) foreign ministers have agreed that there is a need for an international investigation into the recent conflict between Georgia and Russia and t

2008-09-06 所属栏目:欧美文化

AVIGNON, France, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- The European Union (EU) wants to be a "more equal partner" to the United States, said EU external relations commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner on Friday

2008-09-06 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- An investigation into a case that U.S. Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's ethics breaches was suspected would be completed by Oct. 10, three weeks ea