2007-06-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

BAGHDAD - Roadside bombers killed seven US troops Saturday, four of them in a single blast near Baghdad, and an eighth soldier died of a non-combat cause - raising to 25 the number of American soldier

2007-06-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

CARACAS, June 22 - Some oil majors have rejected Venezuela's terms for the takeover of their multi-billion dollar projects and can leave the OPEC nation, President Hugo Chavez said on Friday, days be

2007-06-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

SEOUL, South Korea - US envoy Christopher Hill was wrapping up a surprise trip to North Korea on Friday, amid optimism that the visit heralds renewed progress in DPRK's denuclearization.
US Assistan

2007-06-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

TOKYO - Japan has returned to using the prewar name for the island of Iwo Jima - site of one of World War II's most horrific battles - at the urging of its original inhabitants, who want to reclaim a

2007-06-20 所属栏目:欧美文化

GEORGETOWN, Ind. - A 15-year-old boy used a World War II-era sniper rifle to fatally shoot a deputy and critically wound another outside his southern Indiana home, authorities said Tuesday.
During a

2007-06-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK - Moscow is the world's most expensive city for the second year in a row, thanks to an appreciating ruble and rising housing costs, a new survey reports.
Construction workers seen at work n

2007-06-18 所属栏目:欧美文化

KABUL, Afghanistan - The deadliest insurgent attack since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 destroyed a bus full of police instructors at Kabul's busiest transportation hub on Sunday, killin

2007-06-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

North Korean funds that had been frozen in a Macau bank account for nearly two years will soon reach Pyongyang and that should spur inspections of the North's nuclear sites, U.S. envoy Christopher Hi

2007-06-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis warned here on Friday that "the destabilization of one section of SE Europe could destabilize the entire region". At a two-day round-table discussion i

2007-06-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK - Violent Muslim, Christian and Jewish extremists invoke the same rhetoric of "good" and "evil" and the best way to fight them is to tackle the problems that drive people

2007-06-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's parliament on Wednesday voted in favor of a bill that could lead to the death penalty for persons convicted of working in the production of pornographic movies. In a 148-5 vote,

2007-06-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON - Male US veterans are twice as likely to die by suicide than people with no military service, and are more likely to kill themselves with a gun than others who commit suicide, researchers

2007-06-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

RICHMOND, Va. - A divided panel from a conservative federal appeals court delivered a harsh rebuke to the Bush administration's anti-terrorism strategy Monday, ruling that US residents cannot be lock

2007-06-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

SEOUL, South Korea - Russia has accepted a US request that a Russian bank help end a stalemate over frozen North Korean funds that has halted progress in the North's nuclear disarmament, a news repor

2007-06-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Paris Hilton has not eaten or slept since arriving at the medical ward of a Los Angeles jail and is being given psychoactive drugs, celebrity Web site TMZ.com reported on Satur

2007-06-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

The United States played down on Friday a possible peace deal between Israel and Syria and insisted that Syria has not changed its behavior. "It's up to Israel to determine how it's going to co

2007-06-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

PHILADELPHIA - Archaeologists unearthing the remains of George Washington's presidential home have discovered a hidden passageway used by his nine slaves, raising questions about whether the ruins sh

2007-06-07 所属栏目:欧美文化

MURFREESBORO, Ark. - Walking along a path taken by thousands of others at the Crater of Diamonds State Park, Nicole Ruhter noticed something everyone else had missed - a tea-colored, 2.93-carat diamon

2007-06-06 所属栏目:欧美文化

Havana - Speaking slowly and focusing on past memories rather than his recovery and future, a healthier looking Fidel Castro appeared on Cuban television Tuesday, giving the world its first long look

2007-06-05 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON - In a rare public discussion of her husband's infidelity, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that she probably could not have gotten through her marital

2007-06-04 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK - A convicted drug dealer who agreed to pose as a wannabe terrorist among a shadowy group now accused of plotting to blow up John F. Kennedy International Airport secretly fed information to

2007-06-03 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK - US Federal authorities announced Saturday they had broken up a suspected Muslim terrorist cell planning a "chilling" attack to destroy John F. Kennedy International Airport, kill

2007-06-02 所属栏目:欧美文化

California has decided to sanction gay sex within prison walls for the first time by allowing inmates to have conjugal visits with registered same-sex domestic partners, officials said on Friday. The

2007-06-01 所属栏目:欧美文化

MADRID, Spain - The Spanish government said Thursday it has filed a lawsuit in a US federal court against an American firm over a shipwreck the company has found laden with a colonial-era treasure. In

2007-05-31 所属栏目:欧美文化

SINGAPORE - Asia is bracing for a dramatic surge in cancer rates over the next decade as people in the developing world live longer and adopt bad Western habits that greatly increase the risk of the d