为了保证参加二十国集团峰会各国领导人的安全，韩国首尔会展中心宣布将用金鱼来监测会议场地卫生间的水质，确保用水安全。据悉，该会展中心将会在水质监测处养六条金鱼，每天会多次...
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao leaves for Laos, at the end of the week, to take part in a Southeast Asia summit that is held every three years. The regional gathering is just one of several China has pursued in recent years, in an effort to build stronge...
World leaders pose during a group photo at the G20 summit in Toronto, 27 June 2010 Leaders of the Group of 20 meeting in Toronto, Canada have agreed that the world's most advanced industrialized countries should reduce their budget deficits by half w...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev uses a touch screen during a video-link at the Gorki presidential residence outside Moscow, 07 Jun 2010 US Defense Department Backs Quick Ratification of New START Treaty with Russia Russian President Dmitri Medvedev...
It's all around you along a single street in Miami Ted Landphair | Washington, DC 19 April 2010 The food is fresh, Cuban-influenced and not as spicy as one might expect along Calle Ocho. The city of Miami, Florida, is an oasis of swaying palm trees,...
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has stepped down as chairman of the 53-nation African Union, but not without firing a few verbal broadsides at the organization. Mr. Gadhafi chastised his fellow heads of state for refusing to go along with his plan for...
1.New economic numbers are due out this morning. And the national unemployment rate is not expected to change. Yesterday the President held a job summit at the White House, vowing to take every responsible step to accelerate job creation. 2.American...
The aim is to work out a deal or at least a viable framework to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Sonja Pace | Copenhagen 16 December 2009 Photo: AP Members of NGOs stage a walkout from the venue of the Copenhagen Climate Summit in Copenhagen, 16 Dec 200...
Thousands of extra police are on duty in Pittsburgh Trouble has flared as world leaders gather in the US city of Pittsburgh for the G20 summit. Reports said riot police used pepper gas and fired rubber bullets at protesters on a march near the venue...
Leaders of the G8 developed nations wound up talks in Italy Friday with a pledge of $20 billion to boost food supplies in poor nations. Commitments to food security and to stem global warming were among the highlights of the meeting. US President Ba...
