BEIJING, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- Chinese share prices kept rising on Monday with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 0.83 percent or 42.45 points to close at a record 5,150 points. The index has bee
BEIJING, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) announced on Monday the route of China's second West-East natural gas pipeline has been decided to pipe gas imported from Centr
KABUL, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- South Korean officials and the Taliban would resume face-to-face talks on 19 South Korean hostages at 10:00 a.m. (0530 GMT) on Tuesday in Ghazni province of central Afghanis
Special report: Tension escalates in Iraq FALLUJAH, Iraq, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- A suicide bomber blew himself up among worshippers at a mosque in the city of Fallujah in west of Baghdad on Monday night,
BEIJING, Aug. 27 (Xinhuanet) -- United States Steel Corporation and Toronto, Canada-based Stelco Inc. announced they have agreed US Steel will purchase Stelco for36.60 U.S. dollars in cash per share.U
BEIJING, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- China Life Insurance Company Limited, the country's biggest life insurer, said on Monday that its net profit surged 160 percent to 23.29 billion yuan (3.1 billion U.S. dol
Although autumn has arrived according to Chinese lunar calendar, which began on August 8, we can still feel summer's presence. The hot and damp weather doesn't motivate people to leave an air-conditio
CHICAGO - On the list of social offenses, bad breath ranks right up there with flatulence and body odor.And while store shelves are well stocked with remedies ranging from chewing gum and mouthwash to
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul was elected the country's president yesterday, the first former Islamist to take the post in the secular but predominantly Muslim country's modern history.Armed f
Smoke rises from burning cars as fighting rages in the holy city of Kerbala, 110 km (68 miles) south of Baghdad August 28, 2007. Police ordered hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to leave the Iraqi cit