After a tense impasse on Capitol Hill, lawmakers in the Senate and House of Representatives passed legislation to extend a payroll tax cut for two months and continue unemployment insurance for nearly 2 million jobless Americans. The renewal comes ju...
The international aid organization Oxfam says thousands of Somali families could be cut off from much needed aid if a U.S. bank goes through with plans to discontinue its money-wiring services at the end of this month. Last week, a small bank in the...
PARIS, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- French health authorities on Friday urged 30,000 women to remove the local-made breast implant, pledging that relevant expenses would be covered by the state. The health ministry said in a statement that they spot no increa...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- The two chambers of U.S. Congress on Friday passed a short-term payroll tax and jobless benefits bill, which is now on its way to President Barack Obama's desk to be signed into law. The bipartisan deal was approved by...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Thursday urged its members to step up efforts to complete its governance reform package inked last year. The Executive Board of the IMF has reviewed progress toward implementation...
NEW YORK, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks extended gains on Friday, with major indexes higher for the fourth straight day as most of the latest data signaled a pick-up in the economy. As of Friday's close, the Dow Jones industrial average gained 124....
LONDON, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- Liverpool goalkeeper Jose Reina believes striker Luis Suarez has been crucified over his racism charge, English website sportinglife.com said. The Uruguay international was given an eight-match ban by the Football Associat...
BEIJING, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- With the retirement of basketball legend Yao Ming, who led the Chinese sports delegation to the 2008 Olympic opening ceremony, Liu Xiang and Sun Yang will spearhead the Chinese athletes next year in London in pursuit of a...
ROME, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- Pasquale Marino was named to coach Genoa in place of Alberto Malesani, the Serie A side confirmed on its website on Thursday. The replacement came after a series of poor results for the club with a lastest 6-1 defeat in Napl...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- The journal Science on Thursday chose the HPTN 052 clinical trial, an international HIV prevention trial as the 2011 Breakthrough of the Year. The study found that if HIV-infected heterosexual individuals begin taking...
A series of bomb blasts hit the Iraqi capital Thursday, leaving at least 63 dead and more than 180 wounded. The attacks came as Iraq is gripped in a political crisis between Shi'ite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Sunni political rivals in the gov...
Turkey has announced several sanctions against France, following the French parliament's passing of a bill that will make it a criminal offense to deny Ottoman Turkey committed genocide against Armenians in the past century. Turkish Prime Minister Re...
After studying English as a foreign language for more than 10 years in her native Spain, attending summer courses in neighboring England and visiting New York, Washington, D.C. and other U.S. cities on vacation, Lorena Arroyo affirms she still hasn't...
BEIJING, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- Chinese soccer fans witnessed another year of fiascos, but this time, they accept it more peacefully as both players and fans feel nothing unusual for they've tasted so many failures in recent years and some of them even...
As Europe's fiscal concerns mount, relations between France and Britain are fraying as the two countries trade barbs over which economy is the worse off. The spat among historic rivals comes amid more gloomy economic forecasts out this week. Slow gro...
