China vowed Monday to prevent any outbreak of disease as it cleans up after last month's massive earthquake that killed nearly 70,000 people. Three weeks after the quake struck Sichuan province, the Health Ministry said authorities were working to e
Berlin's mayor has expressed concern at Madame Tussauds' plans to include Adolf Hitler among prominent Germans who will be immortalized in wax at its new museum, his spokesman said Monday. Klaus Wowereit has written a letter to the wax museum's cu
Bo Diddley, the musical pioneer whose songs, such as Who Do You Love? and Bo Diddley, melded rhythm and blues and rock 'n' roll through a distinctive thumping beat, has died. He was 79. Diddley died Monday, surrounded by family and loved ones at hi
The U.S. has restored Fulbright scholarships to seven Gaza-based students, saying it erred last week when it rescinded the awards because of travel restrictions that Israel imposes on the Palestinian territory. In e-mails to the students on Sunday, t
Nineteen U.S. troops were killed in Iraq in May, the fewest killed in any month since the war started. The second-lowest month for American deaths was in February 2004, when 20 were killed. May's toll was a significant decrease from April, when 50 w
The U.N. Security Council on Monday gave nations new powers to pursue pirates into the waters off Somalia, an effort to combat a new spate of hijackings off the Horn of Africa. The unanimous resolution calls on U.N. members to use all necessary means
津巴布韦总统穆加贝将出席在罗马举行的世界粮食首脑会议。但是这次会议穆加贝遭到了西方媒体的炮轰。多国西方领导人纷纷指责穆加贝。澳大利亚外长斯蒂芬史密斯说，是谁让自己的人民挨饿。 Western leaders attacked Zimbabwe's president for participating in this we
Forensic teams have exhumed 60 bodies from what is thought to be the largest mass grave from the Peruvian government's bloody war against Maoist insurgents. Several children were among about 140 peasants massacred by the military in the Andes Mounta
位于伊斯兰堡的丹麦驻巴基斯坦大使馆外2日发生爆炸事件，巴安全官员称事件已经造成3人死亡，4人受伤。 A suicide car bomber targeting the Danish Embassy in Pakistan detonated explosives Monday, damaging part of the building and killing at least two people,
根据美国地质研究组织报告，周日在上菲律宾北部发生了里氏6.4级地震。在中国台湾西部有明显的震感。 A magnitude-6.4 earthquake hit the Pacific Ocean off the northern Philippines Sunday morning and was felt as far as southeastern Taiwan, the U.S. Geological
周日一辆运送军队的微型客车遭到了远程导弹的袭击造成了一名平民女子死亡和5人受伤其中包括三名军队人员.这已经是这一周以来阿富汗军队遭遇的第2次攻击. A remote-controlled bomb targeting a mini-bus carrying Afghan army personnel went off in Kabul Sunday morni
