The trade talks come just a couple of weeks before the US President Barack Obama makes his first visit to China. The Americans say these talks are an important opportunity to engage China at a very senior level（高层） on specific trade issues（问题...
A former left-wing guerrilla has taken a commanding lead in several exit polls from Uruguay's presidential election. Most polls show Senator Jose Mujica has narrowly failed to secure the 50% needed to avoid a run-off vote. If a second round is offici...
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is due to go on trial on 11 charges including genocide（种族灭绝）, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Mr Karadzic denies the charges, which relate to the Bosnian war of the 1990s. The 64-year-old was...
Figures just published suggest the country exceeded its target for economic growth for the first time this year in the third quarter. The Chinese government figures show year on year GDP growth was up 8.9% from 7.9% in the previous quarter. It is th...
Dozens of ethnic Uighurs have disappeared since being detained in the wake of the riots(骚乱) in China's Xinjiang region, a human rights group has said. Human Rights Watch said the 43 men and teenaged boys were taken in police sweeps of Uighur distri...
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been sworn in for a second five-year term as president of Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation. Mr Yudhoyono won a resounding victory at the polls in July, in part because he had clamped down on corruption（...
Somali pirates have hijacked（劫持） a Chinese cargo ship with 25 crew on board, the EU's anti-piracy naval mission says. The De Xin Hai, which was transporting coal, was seized early on Monday in the Indian Ocean, about 1,100km (700 miles) east of t...
MOSCOW, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- An unnamed source from the Russian Foreign Ministry expressed regret and bewilderment（困惑） over the latest reported missile launches by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Monday. The source was quoted b...
The UN has brought forward a regular Security Council meeting on the Middle East after Libya demanded an urgent debate on alleged（据称） war crimes in Gaza. Arab states say the 14 October debate must tackle a report which criticised Israel, after th...
At least 100 people are thought to have been killed by flooding and landslides triggered(触发) by heavy rain in the northern Philippines（菲律宾）, officials say. Most of the deaths were in Benguet province, where landslides were reported to have hit...
At least 41 people have been killed in a bomb blast in a crowded area of the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials say. More than 100 people have also been injured, a regional minister（部长） said. Officials and witnesses said a vehicl...
A typhoon(台风) has made landfall in Japan for the first time in two years, causing widespread disruption. Two people have been killed and more than 40 injured in strong winds and heavy rains. Typhoon Melor struck south-west of Tokyo on the main isl...
UN humanitarian chief John Holmes said people there needed money for food, water, sanitation facilities, emergency shelter and health care. Typhoon Ketsana left at least 300 people dead, and hundreds of thousands stranded. Typhoon Parma just over a...
Somalia's junior minister for defence who was briefly held in Uganda has been released（发布）, Uganda's army spokesman says. Sheikh Yusuf Mohamed Siad, a former Islamist warlord, was detained by Ugandan security forces during a trip to the capital...
We are rediscovering the enigmas(谜团) of the Moon and they're really in our own backyard Dr Jim Garvin, Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center Moon water has world in a twitter A surprising amount of water has been found to exist in the Moon's soil. Data...
