BEIJING, March 28 (Xinhuanet) -- U.S. Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon formally married her entertainment（娱乐消遣） agent Jim Toth, according to media reports Sunday. Witherspoon, 35, and Toth, 40, held their 20-minute wedding ceremony Saturday...
The endangered tiger is making resurgence in India. A recent census indicates(表明) the number of tigers has risen in the South Asian nation, which is home to half the world's population of the big cats. Using hidden cameras and DNA tests, census d...
A movie about the lives - and gruesome deaths - of French Cistercian Trappist monks in Algeria has become an unexpected box-office hit in France and has now been released worldwide. Of Gods and Men is set during Algeria's horrific 1990's civil war. T...
HONG KONG, March 27 (Xinhua) -- The latest exhibition by Pixar Animation Studios opened Sunday at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum on the first stop of its new global tour. The exhibition Pixar: 25 Years of Animation building on the success of its last...
LOS ANGELES, March 27 (Xinhua) -- Walnuts have a combination(综合) of more healthful antioxidants and higher quality antioxidants than any other nut, U.S. researchers have found. Study findings were presented on Sunday at the 241st National Meeting...
BEIJING, March 28 (Xinhuanet) -- At least 20 percent of domestic(国内的) companies will be kicked out of the dairy market at the end of this month following the latest inspection by the central government of China's fresh milk and infant formula p...
SEOUL, March 28 (Xinhua) -- South Korean companies' direct financing jumped 30 percent in February from a month earlier, the financial regulator（调整者） said Monday. Corporate financing through public offers amounted to 14.05 trillion won (12....
NEW YORK, March 25 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks advanced on Friday, the sixth gain in the past seven sessions, as more evidences in domestic(国内的) economic recovery offset uncertainties from overseas. The Dow Jones industrial average（道琼斯指数）...
Interpol says it has stopped a possible terrorist attack on the cricket World Cup, which is underway in South Asia. Interpol chief Ronald Noble told reporters in Islamabad Thursday that the agency was able last week to identify, locate and arrest a t...
NEW YORK, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Broadway （百老汇） in New York City of the United States will dim its lights on Friday night in memory of the iconic actress Elizabeth Taylor, who died on March 23 at the age of 79. Broadway theater marquees will...
SHANGHAI, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Schindler' s list producer（制作人） Branko Lustig visited the Jewish Refugees Museum in Shanghai on Friday, announcing his plan to produce a movie about Jewish refugees in Shanghai during the Second World WarWith...
BEIJING, March 25 (Xinhuanet) -- Zhou Dongyu, the starlet in Zhang Yimou's drama Under the Hawthorn Tree, has been cast as a lead for Stanley Kwan's upcoming romantic film, Ta De Guo (His Kingdom), according to the Guangzhou Daily. The newspaper cite...
WASHINGTON, March 25 (Xinhua) -- NASA's Stardust spacecraft(宇宙飞船) depleted fuel and ceased operation on Thursday after a 12-year run, the U.S. space agency said Friday. This is the end of the spacecraft's operations, but really just the begin...
The first human inhabitants（居民 ） of North America settled at least 2,500 years earlier than the people previously identified as the first Americans. So say archaeologists, who have unearthed a trove of stone artifacts belonging to the early A...
Hollywood acting legend Elizabeth Taylor was given a small, private funeral（葬礼） Thursday at Forest Lawn cemetery outside Los Angeles, the same cemetery where her good friend, entertainer Michael Jackson was buried. Taylor's family and close f...
