A Pakistani intelligence official said Monday that an American being held for killing two men was an undercover CIA contractor, in remarks set to stoke a brewing crisis with the US. Washington insists that Raymond…
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Battles for positions are heating up at the WTA Qatar Ladies Open tennis tournament in Doha, capital of Qatar. During the first round matches played on February 22, early winners and losers were vissible. …
Another unlikely collaboration resulted in Chinese Tibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo becoming the latest Chinese person to win a Grammy Award this year. In a recent interview, Lhamo shared her life story and career story with…
In a preliminary study, researchers found that 50-minute cell phone use was associated with increased brain glucose metabolism (a marker of brain activity) in the region closest to the phone antenna, but the finding is…
The US government is setting the terrain for the 2012 presidential elections in Venezuela, soliciting funding to back anti-Chavez groups and help prepare a “candidate” to oppose Chavez. Republicans call for an “embargo” against the…
The Xinjiang Institute of Archaeology reported on recently that it discovered an ancient tomb group covering an area of more than 10,000 square meters 100 kilometers south of Hami City in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region….
Chinese President Hu Jintao has said that China, as a major economy and the world’s largest developing country, is making an important contribution to the recovery of the world economy through it own economic stability…
Current revolutionary activities in the Middle East and Northern Africa have led analysts divided over the existing models of social development, with others pointing disapprovingly to the Beijing Consensus. What may now become the ideological battle…
Justine Siegal became the first woman to pitch batting practice in a major league spring training camp when she threw to the Cleveland Indians on Monday. Not only did she pass the test with flying…
A powerful earthquake slammed New Zealand’s already-bruised city of Christchurch on Tuesday, killing at least 65 people, and sending rescuers scrambling to help people trapped under collapsed buildings. The 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit the country’s…