Special report: Tension escalates in Iraq MOSUL, Iraq, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Around 150 people were killed and wounded after four car bombings struck two separate towns near Iraqi northern city of Mosul
Ground staff prepare for a cater trucks and passenger loading and unloading process trial run for the Airbus A380 plane, Monday Aug. 13, 2007 at the Changi International Airport in Singapore. Singapor
BEIJING,Aug.14 -- China yesterday scrapped rules requiring companies to convert part of their current-account foreign exchange holdings into the yuan. Companies used to be allowed to retain foreign ex
A released Pakistani prisoner walks to the checkpost before entering Pakistan at Wagah Border, some 30km from Amritsar, northwest India's Punjab state, August 14, 2007. India formally
Chinese retail sales in July rose 16.4 percent year-on-year to reach 699.8 billion yuan (92 billion U.S. dollars), the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Tuesday.The retail sales volume total
BEIJING, Aug. 14 -- Surging food prices drove the consumer price index (CPI) to 5.6 percent in July-- the highest in a decade -- the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said yesterday. But analysts re
Channel 9 is trying to lure TV's hottest property, former Miss Universe Jennifer Hawkins, away from rival Channel 7.The Great Outdoors reporter's three-year contract with Seven expires in early Octobe
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that the United Nations is to provide humanitarian assistance to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) which is suffering from heavy loss from
Special report: Tension escalates in Iraq ·The death toll rose sharply to 175 from four suicide car bombings nearMosul Tuesday.·The coordinately bombings attack was one of the deadliest attacks sinc
PetroChina's largest oil discovery in a decade boasts more reserves than estimated, it was confirmed yesterday - a shot in the arm for both the company and the country's energy security.Jidong Nanpu O