2007-12-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

DHAKA - A top official of the World Bank pledged here Saturday the world body would provide additional US$25 million for cyclone-struck Bangladesh.
Myanmar refugees near the Thai-Myanmar border, Septe

2007-12-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

LOS ANGELES -- The US No. 1 mortgage lender, Countrywide Financial Corp., was under investigation by California Attorney General Jerry Brown and the attorney general's office in Illinois, a news repo

2007-12-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

NUSA DUA, Indonesia -- Negotiators at climate talks in Bali tried to break a deadlock on Friday over emissions goals after the European Union accused the United States of blocking progress at the 190-

2007-12-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON -- Central banks around the world banded together to stem a mounting credit crisis on Wednesday in their first coordinated action since terror attacks shut down US financial markets on Sept

2007-12-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

OKLAHOMA CITY -- A wintry storm caked the center of the nation with a thick layer of ice Monday, blacking out more than 600,000 homes and businesses, and more icy weather was on the way. At least 15 d

2007-12-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

ARVADA, Colo. - A gunman killed two staff members at a missionary training center early Sunday after being told he couldn't spend the night, and about 12 hours later four people were shot at a busy m

2007-12-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

OMAHA, Neb. -- Chilling surveillance images released Friday show a shaggy-haired, bespectacled Robert Hawkins taking aim at holiday shoppers, and his hand-scrawled suicide note offers compassion for h

2007-12-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

Baghdad - A female suicide bomber attacked the offices of an anti-al-Qaida group that has joined forces with the US, killing 12 people Friday in one of Iraq's most violent provinces, police and the U

2007-12-07 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON -- The CIA videotaped its interrogations of two top terror suspects in 2002 and destroyed the tapes three years later out of fear they would leak to the public and compromise the identities

2007-12-06 所属栏目:欧美文化

LOS ANGELES -- Despite rising oil prices, sinking housing prices and a turbulent stock market, the US economy will escape recession in 2008, said a UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) study r

2007-12-05 所属栏目:欧美文化

Tehran - Iran's foreign minister on Tuesday welcomed the US decision to "correct" its claim that Tehran has an active nuclear weapons program, state-run radio reported.
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2007-12-04 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON -- Those lords-a-leaping and ladies dancing may want to consider the downside of the holidays: Heart attack season has arrived. December and January are the deadliest months for heart disea

2007-12-04 所属栏目:欧美文化

People familiar with the Antarctic tourism industry weren't surprised that a cruise ship sank there.
The M/S Explorer cruise ship sinks hours after hitting an iceberg off the coast of the Antarctic,

2007-12-03 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK -- Police Officer James Godbee began directing traffic just outside the World Trade Center site two days after Sept. 11, 2001, working hundreds of hours before developing a cough.
Chief Medic

2007-12-02 所属栏目:欧美文化

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - The world must not grow complacent about AIDS because the number of new HIV infections still outpaces the number of those being treated for the disease, former South Afric

2007-12-01 所属栏目:欧美文化

SEOUL -- The US chief negotiator for the six-party talks said Friday that he expects the denuclearization in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) can be finished in 2008."I sort of t

2007-11-30 所属栏目:欧美文化

Canberra - About 550 Australian combat troops in Iraq should be withdrawn by about the middle of next year, Prime Minister-elect Kevin Rudd said on Friday, setting a broad timetable for the soldiers t

2007-11-29 所属栏目:欧美文化

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia announced Wednesday that it had arrested 208 suspected terrorists in six cells and thwarted several planned attacks in the kingdom's largest terror sweep to date.

2007-11-28 所属栏目:欧美文化

ANNAPOLIS - With handshakes, leaders of the United States, Israel and the Palestinians agreed on Tuesday to launch immediate talks to try to secure a peace deal by the end of 2008 that would create a

2007-11-27 所属栏目:欧美文化

BAGHDAD -- Gunmen in Baghdad's Shaab neighborhood stormed into a house not far from an Iraqi police checkpoint and killed 11 members of an Iraqi journalist's family, witnesses and journalism organiz

2007-11-26 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON - Syria said on Sunday it would join a US-led conference to launch talks on resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, boosting President George W. Bush's long-shot hopes for a peace deal

2007-11-25 所属栏目:欧美文化

SYDNEY, Australia - Labor Party leader Kevin Rudd swept to power in Australian elections Saturday, ending an 11-year conservative era and promising major changes to policies on global warming and his

2007-11-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

Children born in the autumn and winter months are more likely to be sporty, according to one of the largest studies into childhood ever undertaken.The findings are the latest to emerge from "Chil

2007-11-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia -- A passenger bus caught fire and exploded in southern Russia Thursday, killing at least five people and wounding 12, emergency and police officials said. Investigators said ter

2007-11-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

SINGAPORE -- Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda on Wednesday unveiled a two-billion-dollar aid package to help developing Asian nations fight pollution and combat climate change.The initiative, anno