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SINGAPORE, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- Singapore on Saturday decided to ban meat imports from Britain after cattle in southern England have been found to be infected with foot and mouth disease (FMD). Accordin...

A man helps a woman cross a flooded road at Manikganj, 70km (44 miles) from the capital Dhaka, August 3, 2007. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)Photo Gallery>>>DHAKA, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- With...

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Latest sales reports by world's automakers showed that foreign cars outsold domestic brands in the U.S. market for the first time as sales by the Big Three nosedived, t...

BRUSSELS, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- The European Commission asked Italian telecommunications regulator AGCOM on Thursday to reduce its proposed cap on mobile termination rates for H3G Italy. The European Uni...

The niece of late director, Michelangelo Antonioni, looks on near a portrait of her uncleat Rome's City Hall on August 1, 2007.[Reuters]Italian film maker Michelangelo Antonioni was buried at a quiet ...

Desperate Housewives star Marcia Cross has started taking her five-month-old twins to work with her.The 45-year-old actress - who plays up-tight red-head Bree Van De Kamp Hodge in the Wisteria Lane dr...

BAGHDAD, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- Five people were killed and 10 others wounded in shootout, mortar and bomb attacks in Baghdad on Saturday, while the Iraqi police picked up 21 bodies from the capital's str...

Smoke rises from the devastated Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in north Lebanon August 2, 2007. Lebanese soldiers on Saturday continued fierce fighting with Islamist militants inside the ...

BEIJING, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Citibank has launched China's first drive-through automatic teller machines (ATM) in east Beijing -- but only holders of bank cards issued abroad can use them for now. Driv...

HONG KONG, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- The development of a renminbi bond market in Hong Kong is significant for the city, for the Chinese mainland and for the region, Hong Kong Financial Secretary John Tsang ...