International

Five dead, 15 injured in U.S. gym shooting: report
04/08/2009 05:00
A shooting at a gym outside Pittsburgh, Pa., killed five people and wounded as many as 15 Tuesday evening, authorities said. People wait behind police lines outside the LA Fitness gym in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania August 4, 2009 while police...
Japanese pop singer Noriko Sakai missing
04/08/2009 05:00
Japanese pop singer Noriko Sakai has gone missing after her surfer husband was arrested on a drug possession charge, media reports quoted her agent as saying on Wednesday. Filed photo taken on April 5, 2007 shows Japanese actress Noriko Sakai in...
2 released journalists leave Pyongyang aboard Clinton’s plane
04/08/2009 05:00
The two female American journalists just amnestied by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) left Pyongyang on Wednesday morning aboard a chartered plane carrying the homebound former U.S. president Bill Clinton. File photo shows the two...
Report: China property sales decline in July
04/08/2009 05:00
Property sales in 30 Chinese cities fell 4 percent in July as prices soared and supplies dwindled, Wednesday’s China Daily reported citing analysts. The floor space of apartments sold in July slipped 5.37 percent from June to 1.04 million square...
S&P tops 1,000 benchmark for first time in nine months
03/08/2009 05:00
Wall Street rallied on Monday with the Standard & Poor’s 500 index topping the 1,000 benchmark for the first time in nine months as manufacturing activities around the world showed signs of improvement. Traders work on the floor of the New York...
Iran’s leader endorses Ahmadinejad as Iranian president
03/08/2009 05:00
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei formally endorsed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president on Monday against the backdrop of opposition leaders’ outcry for investigating the disputed presidential elections in June, the English-language Press TV reported....
U.S. major automakers sell 47% of ’Cash for Clunkers’ sales
03/08/2009 05:00
The three major U.S. automakers accounted for 47 percent of the first 80,000 “Cash for Clunkers” sales, the U.S. government said Monday. This photo taken on August 3 shows the sign of Ford Motor. Ford Motor Co. posted its first monthly sales...