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MOSCOW, July 18 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed Valentin Sobolev as acting Security Council head following his approval of Igor Ivanov's resignation, the Kremlin press servi...

NEW YORK, July 18 (Xinhua) -- EBay Inc. reported Wednesday a 50-percent-surge in the second-quarter earnings due to strong growth in its online payments business. The company reported earnings of 375....

NEW YORK, July 18 (Xinhua) -- The New York Mercantile Exchange Inc (NYMEX) announced Wednesday that it set daily volume record for total futures and options contracts traded on the Chicago Mercantile ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, July 17 (Xinhua) -- A commercial plane belonging to local airline TAM hit a hangar and started a fire on Tuesday at Congonhas International Airport, in the southern city of Sao Paulo, ...

.S. Democratic Senator from New York Charles Schumer (C) speaks while flanked by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Senator Harry Reid (L), Democrat from Nevada, and Democratic Senator from Illinois Richard ...

BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) -- China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), the country's largest oil producer, announced Tuesday that it will import 30 billion cubic meters of natural gas each year thr...

BRUSSELS, July 17 (Xinhua) -- EU Consumer Protection Commissioner Meglena Kuneva will travel to China next week for closer cooperation on consumer product safety, her spokeswoman said on Tuesday. Hele...

KATHMANDU, July 17 (Xinhua) -- A joint Nepal-France search teamhas recovered the bodies of the four French climbers said to go missing on Mt. Paldor nine months ago, local leading media group's websit...

SAO PAULO, July 17 (Xinhua) -- A passenger plane carrying 170 people on board crashed into a filling station at an airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Tuesday, local reports said.The number of casualties ...

BEIJING, July 18 -- Standard Chartered Bank plans to expand its network to more than 170 on the mainland by 2011, when the country is expected to become the “heart“ of the London-based bank.Standa...