BEIJING, July 6 (Xinhua) -- China's Palace Museum will publicize a catalogue of all its collections of cultural relics, the museum's curator Shan Jixiang said Friday. The museum had completed cataloguing all the relics in its archives in June after s...
ATHENS, July 6 (Xinhua)-- Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras outlined his government's policy plan on Friday evening, focusing on the renegotiation of bailout terms with international lenders and the acceleration of structural reforms. Renegotiatio...
NEW YORK, July 6 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks slid on Friday after the government's latest report showed the jobs market was still struggling three years after the recession. When the market closed, the Dow Jones industrial average lost 124.20 points, or...
President Barack Obama calls the U.S. unemployment figures for June a step in the right direction, but he says he is not satisfied with the pace of the nation's economic recovery. The Labor Department says the U.S. economy added 84,000 private-sector...
WASHINGTON, July 5 (Xinhua) -- David Beckham will sit out the next game after he received a ban from Major League Soccer on Thursday for kicking a ball at an opponent in the Los Angeles Galaxy's loss at San Jose. Beckham kicked a ball at San Jose's S...
BEIJING, July 6 (Xinhua) -- Chinese police on Monday broke up two major child-trafficking gangs, arrested 802 suspects and freed 181 children, the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) said Thursday. Under the command of the MPS, more than 10,000 police...
UNITED NATIONS, July 5 (Xinhua) -- Promoting steady recovery of world economy and ensuring adequate resources for development is crucial to international development cooperation, Li Baodong, Chinese permanent representative to the UN, said here on Th...
BAGHDAD, July 5 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Thursday that members of al-Qaida militant group have crossed border to Syria to carry out terrorist attacks. Yes indeed, we have solid information and intelligence that members o...
LONDON, July 5 (Xinhua) -- Britain's Metropolitan Police (MPS) arrested six people on terror charges in London on Thursday. The arrests, including five men and one woman, were made by officers from the MPS Counter Terrorism Command as part of a plann...
PARIS, France Algeria is kicking off its 50th anniversary of independence from France Thursday with a series of year-long celebrations. But many Algerians and French are marking the event with mixed emotions. Algeria's 50th independence anniversary b...
SINGAPORE, July 4 (Xinhua) -- The mass media of China and India could play a more positive role in the bilateral relations between the two emerging countries, scholars said on Wednesday at a seminar in Singapore. Speaking at the India-China Dialogue...
CHANGSHA, July 5 (Xinhua) -- A section of a highway running near a major river in central China's Hunan Province caved in early Thursday, engulfing a passing vehicle and killing at least one person aboard. The cave-in, near the Poly International Pla...
LONDON, July 4 (Xinhua) -- Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) expressed his hope on Wednesday that NATO would seek a more active dialogue with China. We must expand the range of nations with whom...
TEHRAN, July 4 (Xinhua) -- The Iranian Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) concluded the three-day missile drill on Wednesday with Iranian military officials warning against any military aggression on the country. On the third and last day of the...
LOS ANGELES Fake designer brand purses, clothing and even prescription medications are made and sold around the world. Investigators say it is bigger business than the illegal drug trade. And police say that when consumers buy counterfeit items, they...
