BEIJING, Apirl 1 (Xinhuanet) -- An Ariane rocket launch of two communications satellites was aborted Wednesday after a technical hitch at the scheduled moment of liftoff in French Guiana on Wednesday. According to Arianespace, the Ariane 5 rocket's V...
Fear about radiation(放射辐射 ) from the nuclear power plant disaster in Japan is causing sales of seafood to dive in South Korea. At the Garak fish market, the sales pitches about fresh and cheap seafood that would usually entice customers are f...
The world's two largest aircraft manufacturers have fought yet another round in their six-year legal and political battle over trade subsidies. On Thursday, a World Trade Organization panel said American aircraft manufacturer Boeing received billions...
WARSAW, March 30 (Xinhua) -- UEFA Wednesday voiced concern about Poland's highly aggressive stadium rowdies, calling them a huge image problem in connection with Poland's co-organization (with Ukraine) of the 2012 European Football Championship, loca...
SANTO DOMINGO, March 30 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has appointed Dominican swimmer Marcos Diaz as Goodwill Ambassador for the Millennium Development Goals, the UNDP said on Wednesday. We constantly need more hands to he...
CARACAS, March 30 (Xinhua) -- The number of confirmed cases of the A/H1N1 influenza in Venezuela has risen to 482 this year, Health Minister Eugenia Sader said on Wednesday. According to the latest report, the state of Merida in southeastern Venezuel...
SYDNEY, March 30 (Xinhua) -- Work is good for health while long term work absence, work disability and unemployment can make us miserable(悲惨的), according to a consensus statement from the Australian and New Zealand doctors on Wednesday. The Aus...
President Barack Obama on Wednesday called for the United States to cut its imports of oil by one-third by 2025. That is one of several goals in the president's national energy policy. President Obama went to Washington's Georgetown University to out...
NEW YORK, March 29 (Xinhua) -- New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced on Tuesday that his office will undertake a thorough review of ATT's acquisition of T-Mobile for potential anti-competitive impacts on consumers and businesses. Schn...
SAN FRANCISCO, March 29 (Xinhua) -- Computer networking equipment giant Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday announced the intent to buy privately-held software company newScale Inc., in a move to complement and expand its offerings in cloud computing. Base...
SAN FRANCISCO, March 29 (Xinhua) -- Amazon.com Inc. on Tuesday announced the launch of an on-line music storage（存储 ） service,which enables users to store digital music in the cloud and access it from computers and devices running Google's And...
Millions of Americans are looking after an older family member. A survey a few years ago put the value of family care-giving at $375 billion a year. And while care-giving has traditionally been something family members do for their elders, a growing...
More than five million American children and teens have been diagnosed with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, a condition that makes it difficult - if not impossible - to focus and complete tasks. When Katherine Ellison found herself yelling...
The U.S. space agency(代理中介) has released the first ever image taken of the surface of Mercury from a spacecraft orbiting the planet. The black and white image, posted on the NASA website Tuesday, shows a surface pocked with craters of varying...
ROME, March 28 (Xinhua) -- AC Milan veteran striker Pippo Inzaghi said on Monday that he will return to play in 20 days. Inzaghi's seanson, and even his career, was considered to be over after picking up knee ligament（韧带） damage in a 3-1 win...
