U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to join fellow foreign ministers from the eight-nation Arctic Council on Thursday in Greenland's capital, Nuuk, for a meeting on polar region issues, including the receding Arctic ice cap. The meeti...
France's national soccer federation has been rocked by allegations of racism, with reports its top brass wanted to introduce quotas for ethnic-African and Arab players in its training academies. The results of two investigations into the matter are d...
The White House says the United States expects a full and complete investigation by Pakistan into what the United States calls a presumed support network that allowed Osama bin Laden to live in Pakistan. The White House also reacted to remarks by Pak...
New films by two convicted Iranian directors, Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof, will be shown at this month's Cannes film festival in France. Festival organizers said Saturday that Panahi's In Film Nist (This is Not a Film) will be screened on May...
LOS ANGELES, May 8 (Xinhua) -- The crown of the North America box office was stormed by a hammer-wielding god from Thor, the latest in the Marvel Studios productions, as the Paramount- distributed epic adventure opened with 66 million dollars in esti...
JERUSALEM, May 8 (Xinhua) -- Israeli researcher Jacob (Koby) Scheuer, from the Tel Aviv University (TAU) School of Electrical Engineering, has developed a nano-scale gyroscope, the Ha'aretz daily reported Sunday. Scheuer developed a new optic-fiber n...
U.S. President Barack Obama says he ordered the raid(袭击) against al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden after deciding that the risks were outweighed by the possibility of finally getting our man.Mr. Obama said during a broadcast interview on CBS's 60 M...
Climate change is already beginning to hurt maize and wheat production, according to a new study. Higher average growing season temperatures(温度) in most major grain-producing countries are beginning to work against the progress made by improving...
BEIJING, May 9 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese currency renminbi (RMB), or the yuan, Monday gained 15 basis points from the previous(以前的) trading day to hit a new high of 6.4988 per U.S. dollar. The yuan first broke the symbolic 6.50 ratio against the...
LOS ANGELES, May 6 (Xinhua) -- Limiting prolonged bottle use in children may be an effective way to help prevent obesity, a new study suggests. For the study, researchers from the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple University (CORETU...
President Barack Obama has met behind closed doors with some of the secret special operations forces who killed Osama bin Laden. The president Friday thanked the units who carried out the operation against the leader of the al-Qaida terror network. A...
President Barack Obama says the U.S. economy is recovering, after the nation added more jobs than expected in April. The government jobs report released Friday shows a net gain of 244,000 jobs in the United States last month, better than economists h...
MADRID, May 5 (Xinhua) -- Top seed Rafael Nadal advanced into the quarterfinal of the 5.8-million-euro ATP/WTA Madrid Masters in an easy way, as opponent Juan Martin Del Potro withdrew before the match on Thursday. The Argentina US Open champ Del Pot...
MADRID, May 5 (Xinhua) -- FC Barcelona will have the chance to be crowned kings of the BBVA Primera Liga for the third consecutive season should results go their way this weekend. Barcelona can round up a perfect week which saw the club qualify for t...
LIMA, May 5 (Xinhua) -- A total of 53.5 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean suffer from hunger or malnutrition, experts said at an international forum here Thursday. Juan Garcia, coordinator of the 5th work-group meeting of the Latin Am...
