American Airlines' parent company, AMR Corporation, has filed for bankruptcy after failing to secure a deal with pilots to cut labor costs. The nation's third largest airline said Tuesday it sought bankruptcy court protection to reduce its costs and...
Finance ministers from the 17-nation eurozone are holding another set of talks Tuesday and Wednesday on salvaging their common currency, amid more grim financial news. New governments in Greece and Italy, two of Europe's most financially troubled cou...
BEIJING, Nov. 28 (Xinhuanet) -- Scientists in Canada have raised a prospect of reversing Alzheimer's disease by deep brain stimulation, according to media reports Monday. The technique here is known as deep brain stimulation -- applying electricity d...
BEIJING, Nov. 28 (Xinhuanet) -- The U.S. FBI and police in the Philippines have arrested four alleged hackers in Manila with connections to a terrorist group in Saudi Arabia, according to media reports Monday. The four who were arrested last Wednesda...
SHANGHAI, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- The Shanghai municipal government Monday launched the microblog Shanghai City on China's popular Twitter-like microblogging service Weibo.com. The microblog, officially verified as originating from the Information Office...
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- Samsung Electronics, the world's second-largest manufacturer of mobile phones, said Monday that it launched its latest smart mobile gadget Galaxy Note in South Korea in a bid to take the lead in a new phase of the mobile ph...
Egyptians lined up for hours Monday to take part in the nation's first post-revolution parliamentary elections. While logistics for the staggered, three-month process are daunting, so far, voters seemed pleased to be able to make their voices heard....
Key European leaders pledged at a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama Monday that they will push for closer economic integration of the 17-nation eurozone to help resolve the continent's burgeoning debt crisis. European Council President Herman...
MOSCOW, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- Former Olympic weightlifting champion Vasily Alekseyev has died from heart problems, local media reported Friday. The 69-year-old Alekseyev, who passed away in a clinic in Munich, Germany, won Olympic gold medals in 1972 a...
LONDON, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- World No. 7 Tomas Berdych from Czech Republic grabbed the last semifinal place by beating Spain's David Ferrer 3-6, 7-5 and 6-1 at the ATP World Tour Finals on Friday. Berdych, 26, had to win the last Group A match to reac...
DONGGUAN, Guangdong Province, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- Chinese basketball star Yi Jianlian injured in a Chinese Basketball Association league (CBA) match here on Friday night. Yi, who is arguably second to Yao Ming in fame in Chinese basketball, was crush...
MOSCOW, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- Russia's Proton-M carrier rocket was launched on Friday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan with a Chinese communications satellite AsiaSat-7, according to Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos. Roscosmos' live...
The U.S. holiday shopping season has officially begun, with shoppers crowding stores for post-Thanksgiving sales in a yearly event nicknamed Black Friday. The competition for the best deals took an aggressive turn Thursday night, when a woman at a Wa...
A French train carrying 11 containers of reprocessed nuclear waste entered Germany Friday on its way to a storage site. French authorities had stopped the train Thursday before it reached the German border, in hopes of avoiding protests over the radi...
Italy had to pay nearly double the interest rates to borrow money in a six-month bond auction Friday, reflecting new fears about economic problems in the countries that use the common European currency. The euro currency and world stock markets also...
