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BEIJING, Aug. 20 (Xinhuanet) --The body of a man missing since an interstate bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River near Minneapolis, Minn.,Aug. 1, was recovered early Sunday, bringing the confir...

SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Xinhua)-- South Korea and the United States launched their annual joint military exercises on Monday despite strong oppositions from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). T...

Special：Xing Talk—Celebrities InterviewIt is the best of times, it is the worst of times. The famous quote by Charles Dickens applies appropriately to domestic Chinese markets. Many young and entr...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Federal Reserve judged the downside risks to economic growth has increased “appreciably“ while it announced Friday to cut its discount rate by a half-perce...

TEHRAN, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Six military personnel of Iranian security forces were killed in a helicopter crash near the border with northern Iraq, the state-run media reported on Saturday. According ...

HELSINKI, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Northern European states agreed to dispatch peacekeeping troops and civilian police to Sudan's Darfur region after ending a foreign ministerial meeting on Friday in F...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday filed fraud charges against a former Brocade Communications Systems Inc. executive. The U.S. federal regulators alleged...

NEW YORK, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Crude prices rose Friday on Hurricane Dean and the Federal Reserve's interest rate cut. The National Hurricane Center said Dean strengthened, which will head straight int...

White House spokesman Tony Snow answers a question during his daily briefing from the White House in Washington July 13, 2007. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- White H...

LONDON, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- One person died and six others are missing after fire swept through a hotel in Cornwall, southwest England, on Saturday morning, according to the Sky News. Emergency servic...