ISLAMABAD, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- At least 31 people including high rank police officials were killed and over 50 others injured on Thursday afternoon as a suicide blast hit a funeral in Pakistan's Southwest city of Quetta, local media and officials said...
Snub follows Moscow's granting whistle-blower shelter for one year US President Barack Obama is canceling plans to meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow next month - a rare diplomatic snub. The move is retribution for Russia's de...
WASHINGTON - The United States and the European Union (EU) on Wednesday expressed concern about the dangerous stalemate in Egypt, as the country's interim president announced failed foreign mediation efforts. US Secretary of State John Kerry and EU's...
NEW YORK - New York City subway riders got a surprise on Wednesday when a dead shark was discovered on a Queens-bound subway train, authorities said. A supervisor found the four-foot-long carcass shortly after midnight, moved the passengers onto anot...
BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- The government of Argentina Wednesday declared two days of national mourning for the 10 fatal victims of an explosion in an apartment building in the northern city of Rosario. Presidential spokesman, Alfredo Scoccimar...
KIEV, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- The death toll in a chemical plant explosion in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region has risen to 5 after two of the wounded succumbed to injuries, the Ukrainian State Service for Emergencies said on Tuesday. The blast occurred a...
PARIS, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- French President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday that fresh positive domestic and regional economic indicators were backing his optimism about the recovery of the country's economy. They (critics) said that I have been ver...
PARIS, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Tuesday that France looks to foster new relations with Iran following the inauguration of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. The minister (Fabius) expressed France's wishes of seein...
DUBLIN, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- Latest figures have showed Irish mobile phone users pay on average five times more for their calls than users in the cheapest EU country do. The figures, released Tuesday by the European Commission, showed Lithuania becomes...
BOGOTA, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Colombia next week to discuss trade and security issues with the Colombian leaders, Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin said on Tuesday. Secretary of State Kerry will come to...
母乳喂养降低老年痴呆症风险 LONDON, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Mothers who breastfeed run a lower risk of developing Alzheimer's, with longer periods of breastfeeding further reducing the risk, a new study paper unveiled on Monday. The paper, pub...
华盛顿邮报出售给亚马逊的创始人 The Washington Post Co said it has sold its flagship newspaper to Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon . The purchase price is $250 million, subject to normal working capital adjustments, payable at closing...
BEIJING, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- China's insurance industry regulator said Friday that it will relax controls on interest rates for standard life insurance products, marking the country's latest effort to deepen market-oriented reforms in its financial sy...
PARIS, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- France will close its embassy in Yemen on Sunday and Monday over security concerns, media reports quoted a foreign ministry spokesman as saying on Saturday. It came after Britain and Germany took the same decision. The Unite...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday claimed substantial electoral irregularities in Zimbabwe's presidential poll, urging regional blocs to address the concerns expressed. In light of substantial electoral irr...
