HELSINKI, June 22 (Xinhua) -- Finnish President Tarja Halonen on Tuesday appointed（约定的,指定的） Mari Kiviniemi, new leader of the ruling Center Party, as the country's prime minister. Kiviniemi, 41, replaced her predecessor(前任) Matti...
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko told visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Minsk Tuesday he had ordered the closure of the gas transit to Europe via Belarus, until Gazprom pays the debt（债务） for the transit.Until they pa...
CAIRO, June 22 (Xinhua) -- Nearly 80 percent of an oil slick detected（发现，检测） off the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Hurghada has been cleared and the situation is quite satisfactory, Red Sea governor Magdi Qubeisi said Tuesday. Efforts are...
WASHINGTON, June 23 (Xinhua) -- The White House announced Wednesday that British Lieutenant General Nick Parker would serve as acting Commander of NATO's International Security Assistance（援助） Force in Afghanistan until a new U.S. Commander is...
WASHINGTON, June 23 (Xinhua) -- New home sales in the United States plunged(投入) 33 percent in April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 300,000 units, the Commerce Department（美国商务部） reported Wednesday. The new home sales, the lo...
DAR ES SALAAM, June 23 (Xinhua) -- The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) has urged（催促） all partner states' action in order to ensure that the region embarks upon the process of implementing the East African Community (EAC)（东非共和...
TOKYO, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Japan's exports rose in May from a year earlier, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) said in a preliminary（初级） report on Thursday. The 32.1 percent increase in the recording month marks the sixth successive（连续的）...
PARIS, June 23 (Xinhua) -- French jobless rate（失业率） will stay stable at 9.9 percent for 2010, the highest level in a decade（十年）, according to a report published Wednesday by the national statistics bureau Insee. In the short-term an...
DAR ES SALAAM, June 23 (Xinhua) -- Turkey has expressed interest to create a free-trade and investment area between Turkey and the East African Community (EAC), Xinhua learnt on Wednesday. Turkish Ambassador(大使) to Tanzania Sander Gurbuz said his...
BEIJING, June 14 (Xinhuanet) -- Tens of millions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer（纳税人） funds are indirectly being paid to Afghan warlords to secure（保护） convoys carrying supplies to U.S. troops in Afghanistan, according to a congressional...
Mexico's Rafael Marquez struck 12 minutes from time to deny hosts South Africa a winning start to the World Cup at Soccer City in Johannesburg（约翰内斯堡）. Marquez controlled Andres Guardado's cross at the back post and rifled past Bafana Ba...
The World Cup has opened amid jubilant scenes in South Africa, but Nelson Mandela missed the event after a car crash killed his great-granddaughter（曾孙女）. Zenani Mandela, 13, died when the car taking her home from a pre-competition concert i...
BEIJING, May 31(Xinhuanet) -- The ninth season of American Idol(偶像) has dropped the curtain. Lee Dewyze was voted as the new most popular idol for Americans though he just started his performing career. However, the pop music market is fluctuatin...
BEIJING, May 31 -- China will report its progress on tobacco（香烟） control to the member conference(联盟) of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) next year, but many experts say that there is still a lot to be done. China is...
CAIRO, May 30 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian archeologists(考古学家) said Sunday that they have discovered a 3,300-year-old tomb（坟墓） that belongs to a high-profile army commander in south Cairo. The tomb dating back to Egypt's 19th Dynasty (about 1...
