Palestinians inspect a destroyed car after it was targeted by an Israeli air strike in the northern Gaza Strip Jan. 17, 2008. An Israeli aircraft fired an air-to-ground missle at a car driving in the
Wall Street plunged Thursday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping more than 300 points on recession concerns after Bernanke's comment and weak data.Stocks opened higher but quickly gave up t
Shares in SAIC Motor Co Ltd rose 2.79 percent yesterday after China's largest car maker reported its net profit for last year would be substantially higher than the previous year.In a filing to the Sh
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency Director Lieutenant-General Henry Obering (R) and Czech Republic's Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek answer questions by the media at the government headquarters in Prague
Sea Shepherd member Australian Benjamin Potts. Xinhua/AFP Photo)The two detained anti-whaling activists, held captive after boarding a Japanese whaling boat on Tuesday, were released Friday morning fr
Gazing at the share price movements on a big screen at a stock brokerage in Guangdong Road in downtown Shanghai, Wang Xingfa, a 44-year-old executive, looked very worried.Wang had reason to be concern
China's Ministry of Construction is mulling over new measures to curb collusion in raising prices by property developers, the China Business News reported on Wednesday.Qi Ji, vice minister of Construc
Finished statuettes for the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards are displayed during a media opportunity in Burbank January 17, 2008. The SAG Awards, which received a waiver from the striking Writers Gui
A child rescued from a flooded area along Zambazi river prepares a meal at a temporary shelter in Bawe village, central Mozambique, January 16, 2008. Zimbabwe faces the threat of renewed flooding whic
A sign of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), file photo [Photo: cnsphoto]The assets of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) hit 1.54 trillion yuan ($212.4 billion) at the end of 2007,