WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama is seeing a surge in support among voters, with poll numbers released Tuesday suggesting his approval rating is nearing the 50 percent mark. According to a national survey done by CNN/ORC In...
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is urging Iraqi leaders to settle their political differences with the country's Sunni Muslim vice president facing charges that he plotted to kill other government officials. The White House says Biden telephoned Iraqi...
ACCRA, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- A strange disease has hit inhabitants of the Amansie West District in the Ashanti Region of Ghana, near Kumasi, 270 km north of the capital, claiming two lives, health officials said here on Monday. Director of Public Healt...
European finance ministers have failed to raise $261 billion to help contain the continent's governmental debt crisis. Finance chiefs from the 17 nations that use the euro agreed Monday to raise $195 billion from eurozone central banks to help the In...
The U.N. Conference on Trade and Development says the outlook for the world economy is very bleak. UNCTAD warns Europe is facing a full-fledged recession next year, and the best the United States and Japan can look forward to is a period of stagnatio...
ROME, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- AC Milan's offer for Carlos Tevez has been rejected by Manchester City, the Serie A giant's vice president Adriano Galliani confirmed on Sunday. Tevez has agreed personal terms with Milan, but City do not want to release him...
ROME, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Luis Enrique claimed he was living his happiest day as Roma head coach after his side beat Napoli 3-1 on Sunday. This is my happiest day on the Roma bench, the under-fire Spaniard was quoted by football-italia.net as saying....
ROME, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Napoli head coach Walter Mazzarri complained that his side did not lose to Roma but to deflections and refereeing decisions. The Partenopei attacked throughout the match, but were beaten 3- 1 at the San Paolo on Sunday. Roma...
BEIJING, Dec. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- A new film about one of the most heartrending episodes in recent Chinese history leaves more to be desired. The Flowers of War is not the first Chinese movie to tackle the painful subject matter of the Nanjing Massacre...
MANILA, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- No Chinese national has so far been found dead in the flashfloods triggered by tropical storm Washi ( local name Sendong), a Chinese embassy official said on Sunday. When asked on possible casualties of Chinese nationals,...
SINGAPORE, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Two Chinese Navy ships called at Singapore's Changi port on Sunday on their way back to China from an escort mission in the Gulf of Aden and the waters off Somali. The destroyer Wuhan and the frigate Yulin were part of...
BEIJING, Dec. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Restrictions on housing purchases in this city will continue next year without relaxation despite expected falls in property prices so far, local officials said on Friday. Even so, a property tax is unlikely to be put...
SUVA, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- There are 60 typhoid cases in Nanoko, with 29 already hospitalized, according to Fiji's Health Ministry. Senior Health Inspector Paula Laqere said Sunday that the increas means that people are not practicing proper hygiene s...
The Italian government has overwhelmingly won a crucial parliamentary vote of confidence Friday over an austerity package intended to help the third largest economy in the eurozone get its finances in order. The lower house of parliament voted 495-88...
The U.S. Senate has passed a compromise measure that extends payroll tax cuts for American workers for another two months. Lawmakers in the upper house of Congress overwhelmingly passed the legislation by a vote of 89 to 10, a day after Republicans a...
