BEIJING, June 29 (Xinhuanet) -- Actor Mel Gibson and his longtime wife, Robyn, have nearly finalized their divorce, media reports said Wednesday. Robyns attorney Laura Wasser told a judge the pair have resolved all their issues and are doing some fin...
Britain's airports are warning travelers they could face major delays Thursday when civil servants and teachers plan to take part in a nationwide strike. BAA, which runs Heathrow, Stansted, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Southampton airports, made...
French military officials say they aided Libyan rebels this month with weapons, munitions and food in their battle against government forces in the western Libyan mountains. Western news agencies on Wednesday quote unidentified French military offici...
BEIJING, June 28 (Xinhuanet) -- Pop star Lady Gaga is sued over sales of her wristbands for Japan's earthquake relief efforts, according to media reports Tuesday. The federal class action lawsuit against Gaga claims that she profited from the sale of...
SAN FRANCISCO, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Google on Tuesday rolled out a new social networking service named Google+, a long awaited move of the Internet search giant to crack the industry's social trend dominated by Facebook. Unlike Facebook, Google said t...
BEIJING, June 29 (Xinhuanet) -- Twitter Inc. co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams said they are moving on from the microblogging service, media reports said Wednesday. The Twitter crew and its leadership team have grown incredibly productive, Ston...
BEIJING, June 28 (Xinhuanet) -- A truck-sized asteroid passed over the Atlantic Ocean within 7,500 miles of the Earth on Monday, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The space rock, called asteroid 2011 MD, is the second space rock to zip e...
SAN FRANCISCO, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Microsoft on Tuesday launched its cloud service Office 365, which was the software giant's answer to competing products from Google and other companies. The service includes on-line versions of Word, PowerPoint, Exc...
SAN FRANCISCO, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Google has launched a new site wdyl.com, a search service standing for what do you love and integrating a variety of Google's search products on one page. According to a report by technology blog TechCrunch, wdyl.co...
WASHINGTON, June 28 (Xinhua) -- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced Tuesday that it has selected French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde to serve as its next Managing Director. The Executive Board of the IMF said it has picked Lagarde t...
The U.S. space agency completed a day-long readiness review of the space shuttle Atlantis and set July 8 as the targeted launch date for its final flight. It is a historic last mission of the 30-year-old shuttle program. The space shuttle Atlantis is...
Indian automaker(汽车制造商) Tata Motors says it will ask the country's highest court to block a state government's decision to return land for a factory back to farmers. West Bengal's state legislature passed a law earlier this month allowing i...
BEIJING, June 27 (Xinhuanet) -- A lost tribe has been spotted in the Amazon rainforests of Brazil, according to the media report Monday. The discovery was confirmed by National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) of Brazil, a government body overseeing indigen...
MOSCOW, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Russia successfully launched a Cosmos class military satellite on Monday, said spokesman of the Russian Space Forces Alexei Zolotukhin. A Soyuz-U carrier rocket carrying the military satellite blasted off from the Plesetsk...
BEIJING, June 28 (Xinhuanet) -- The figure of adults with diabetes has risen to 347 million worldwide, which is more than doubled in the past three decades, according to a study published in the British journal Lancet. The study, which analyzed data...
