STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A medical researcher in Seattle has invented a molecule that can seek out cancerous tumors and make them glow. As part of his series Joe's Big Idea, NPR's Joe Palca explores why this molecule called tumor paint can make anenormou...
PARIS, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- European Commission (EC) President, Jose Manuel Barroso on Sunday said sanction measures would be considered if France failed to meet its financial commitment He urged the government to take more audacious reforms to respe...
This is what 100 million euros buys you at football's current exchange rate. Garath Bale, a Real Madrid player at last, are greeted like a hero on his very first day. He made an effort to fit in, with little Spanish. Bale was joined by part Emma Rhys...
We've all been there, looked at our watches and panicked, just like in Alice in Wonderland. -It's just a rabbit with a waistcoat -- and a watch! -Oh, my dear and whiskers, I'm late! I'm late! I'm late! Now it seems, time is also running out for Smart...
It was nevergoing to be an easy chat, but at least G20 leaders prepared for dinner. Syriawas no longer the elephant in the room. It was the center piece for discussionand debate. On the key question of proposed military action, David Cameron hasno ha...
NICOSIA, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Russia and Cyprus signed an agreement restructuring a 2.5-billion-euro (3.3-billion-U.S. dollar) loan, the Cypriot government said in a statement on Thursday. The statement said the restructuring provides for the repayme...
多数企业表示，英国必须留在欧盟 LONDON, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Nearly 80 percent of businesses in Britain said the country must stay in the European Union (EU), saying leaving the Euroepan bloc would hit investment and trade, and make the...
TIRANA, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- The Statistics Institute of Albania (INSTAT) reported on Thursday that poverty in Albania has increased due to the global financial crisis and the general macro-economic situation of low economic growth since 2008. Accord...
Policymakers of the Group of Twenty nations are set to gather at the Russian city of St. Petersburg for the upcoming G20 summit. The G20 members represent about 80 percent of the global economy, and the two-day summit is set to open on Wednesday. Chi...
UNITED NATIONS Syria has taken its first step toward joining an international treaty banning the production and use of chemical weapons. U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters the U.N. received a document Thursday from the Syrian government that co...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Wednesday criticized U.S. intelligence agencies for spying on Brazilian officials, and for the possible military intervention in Syria. At a debate in Sao Paulo,...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- The United States has begun delivering weapons to Syrian rebels over the past two weeks, which marks a major escalation of the U.S. role in the Syria conflict, a report said. The move by the U.S. spy agency the Centra...
-New signs this morning that the housing market is heating up. Home sales are expected to show another monthly spike this morning. Good news for homeowners. Also, a growing risk that buyers could get burned. Here more with that, our financial contrib...
Sailing from the strait of Gibraltar in to the bey, a steel, grave warship shaped a reminder that Britain is still the dominant overseas power on the rock. And for the locals, long may it remain so. HMS Westminster is here as part of a long planned n...
Slightly more positive data is certainly welcome. But there is no room for complacency whatsoever. I hope there will be no premature declarations suggesting that the crisis is over, because we still have many obstacles and many chances, relatively lo...
