U.S. President Barack Obama will press world leaders at the Group of 20 summit in Russia for backing of a possible U.S. strike on Syria. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced plans to add Syria to the agenda shortly after summit participants arr...
美国失业率下降 The U.S. says its labor market advanced again in August, with its unemployment rate hitting the lowest point since late 2008 and employers adding another 169,000 jobs. The government said Friday that the jobless rate last month...
英国大臣指责企业不公平使用人才 Even good British companies have been affected by the impact of low skilled migrant workers. Take Tesco. A good employer and an important source of jobs in Britain. They take on young people, operate appr...
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: Nokia was once the largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world and the most valuable company in Europe, making it a veritable icon in its home base of Finland. But the rise of Apple and Android smartphones knocked the company...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- Protesters took to the streets of Washington on Saturday, urging Congress to reject President Barack Obama's plan of military action against Syria. The protesters gathered around noon at the White House, loudly chantin...
非洲发现结核病的起源 The origins of humans have been traced to Africa. And now, so have the origins of tuberculosis. New research shows the evolutionary trees of both humans and TB have grown side-by-side. TB bacteria originated in Africa a...
巴西要求美国就监听道歉 Furious about a report that the US government spied on her private communications, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff may cancel a planned White House visit and downgrade commercial ties unless she receives a public...
G20领导人采取圣彼得堡发展战略 ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- The Group of Twenty (G20) leaders on Thursday approved here a strategy outlining development priorities for the group members over the medium term. The St. Petersb...
法国祝贺马里新总统凯塔宣誓就职 PARIS, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- France on Wednesday congratulated Ibrahim Boubacar Keita to be the new President of Mali on the occasion of his swearing-in ceremony, said Philippe Lalliot, Foreign Ministry's s...
法国总统奥朗德在圣彼得堡出席G20峰会 PARIS, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- French President Francois Hollande will attend the G20 Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Sept. 5 and 6, 2013, the Elysee Palace said Wednesday in a statement. On the tw...
北欧国家与美国深化合作 STOCKHOLM, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- The five nordic countries and the United States reaffirmed their deep partnership on important shared global priorities, according to a joint statement with visiting by U.S. President B...
印尼总统访问波兰 WARSAW, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski and his Indonesian counterpart Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono met in Warsaw on Wednesday to discuss economic cooperation between their two countries. Komorowski said...
COPENHAGEN, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- Eighteen leading Danish and Denmark-based international companies jointly launched a talent-hunting alliance, the Consortium for Global Talent, earlier this week to attract and retain more skilled foreign professionals...
A warmer planet is helping to fuel more wildfires in the United States, according to a new study. Environmental scientists at Harvard University predict that by 2050, wildfire seasons will be three weeks longer, up to twice as smoky, and will burn a...
JERUSALEM, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- A spokesperson with the Israeli Defense Ministry confirmed to Xinhua on Tuesday that Israel, along with the United States conducted a successful experiment for a new target missile called Sparrow, which is the apparent...
