CAPE CANAVERAL Two American astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station Monday to stow a failed coolant pump and extend the outpost's Canadian railway. Wearing protective spacesuits in a deadly vacuum(真空) environment, Stephen...
LOS ANGELES/SHANGHAI, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Daily-deals website Groupon goes live in China on Monday, bringing its popular brand of Internet retail to the world's most populous nation. GaoPeng.com, funded by Groupon, the Tencent (0700.HK) Collaboration(合...
BEIJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhuanet) -- American actress Sharon Stone won a restraining order Thursday against the man who broke into her home earlier this month, according to media reports. The man, 38, named Bradley Gooden, was arrested inside Stone's Los...
With the Oscars just days away, media mavens are abuzz with predictions(预言,预报) of which films will win on Hollywood's biggest night. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recently doubled the number of films competing for Best Pictu...
President Obama on Thursday presided over the first meeting of his new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. During a more than hour long session（会议,开庭）, Mr. Obama told its members they have an important mission to help build American's co...
The Internet and social media are proving to be a double-edged sword. While they expand the possibilities of commerce and information-sharing, they are also used by terrorists(恐怖分子) to recruit members, to promote hate, and even to reveal ways...
The Space Shuttle Discovery is now on its way to the International Space Station after what NASA calls a picture perfect launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida Thursday. This is the last flight of the oldest and most-travelled of the US shut...
MILAN, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- Milan Women's Fashion Week kicked off here on Wednesday, showcasing the best of made-in-Italy in the city's most renowned and historic locations(出租). According to the National Chamber for Italian Fashion, which organize...
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- A Los Angeles judge warned troubled actress Lindsay Lohan on Wednesday that she could languish(憔悴) behind bars if she makes a plea bargain in her felony grand theft case. If the case settles here ... you will be g...
West Africa's Internet penetration（穿透） level remains one of the lowest in the world, but a booming market for mobile phones has more tech companies sensing opportunity. U.S. search giant Google has set up offices in several countries in the r...
Crews at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida are preparing the Space Shuttle Discovery for its final launch, scheduled for Thursday. Among the things it will carry to the International Space Station will be a humanlike robot designed to help astronau...
Vietnam recently devalued its currency, the dong, by 9.3 percent against the dollar. Analysts say soaring inflation here makes life harder for many Vietnamese workers. Consumer prices in Vietnam this January were more than 12 percent higher than they...
The U.S. space agency is moving ahead with preparations for Thursday's scheduled launch of the space shuttle(航天飞机) Discovery on its mission to the International Space Station. NASA said it was loading liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen into th...
One of the most common questions cancer patients ask their doctors is: has the disease been contained or will it spread. A recent study by U.S. and Chinese researchers may help provide clues. The scientists examined genetic（遗传的,基因的） m...
South Sudan continues to move on after its successful independence referendum, announcing that its universities will reopen in mid-May this year. The souths universities need a lot of work before opening. Like most things in southern Sudan, its unive...
