International

Google search gets smarter
24/03/2009 05:00
Google on Tuesday rolled out two new improvements to its popular Internet search service which its engineers said will help guide users more effectively to the information they need. The Google booth is seen at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show...
China raises gasoline, diesel benchmark prices
24/03/2009 05:00
China said it would raise benchmark retail prices of gasoline and diesel by 290 yuan (42.46 U.S. dollars) per tonne and 180 yuan per tonne, respectively, as of midnight Tuesday. The combined photo taken on Mar. 24, 2009 shows the price boards...
Israeli Likud-led coalition levels off as Labor joins
24/03/2009 05:00
Despite interior opponents and contradiction, Labor Party Central Committee voted in favor of chairman Ehud Barak’s coalition bid on Tuesday to enter the Israeli coalition led by Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel’s Likud party leader...
Death toll rises to 25 in Iraq’s suicide attack
23/03/2009 05:00
The death toll from a suicide bombing in Iraq’s Diyala province on Monday rose to 25 with 45 wounded, a provincial police source said. A man wounded in a suicide bombing in Jalulu, 125 kilometers (80 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, is helped...
Lance Armstrong breaks collarbone after heavy fall in Spanish cycle race
23/03/2009 05:00
Seven times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong was taken to hospital on Monday after breaking his collarbone in the Tour of Castilla-Leon. Lance Armstrong of the U.S. is seen in an ambulance as he arrives at Hospital Clinico in Valladolid,...
U.S. stocks surge on toxic asset plan, home sales
23/03/2009 05:00
U.S. stocks staged the strongest rally this year on Monday as the market was boosted by U.S. government’s latest plan on clearing bad bank assets and a larger-than-expected rise in existing home sales. The news of the government’s bad asset...
Soros urges G20 to support developing nations
23/03/2009 05:00
Financier George Soros said the G20 summit next month must support developing nations to prevent further market turmoil. âInstitutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) face a novel task: to protect the periphery countries from a...