• Box-office-hit “True Grit” opens Berlin Film Festival

    Box-office-hit “True Grit” opens Berlin Film Festival

    10/02/2011 05:00

    The 61st Berlin Film Festival saddled up Thursday and hit the Festival Trail with the opening film “True Grit”, a Western directed by the Coen Brothers. Actor Josh Brolin, directors Joel Coenn, his brother Ethan Coen,...

  • China blog spotlights missing-child problem 

    09/02/2011 05:00

    File photo shows a Chinese parent holding up playing cards with photos of missing children. A Chinese website that helps parents find missing children has become a sensation, shining a light on child abductions and the growing...

  • Suicide attack kills 27 Pakistan army recruits 

    09/02/2011 05:00

    Pakistani paramilitary soldiers are seen on patrol. A teenage suicide bomber killed up to 27 Pakistani army recruits at a parade ground on Thursday, an attack the Taliban said was vengeance for US drone strikes and local military...

  • Fire damages 1,000-year-old temple in east China, no casualties

    Fire damages 1,000-year-old temple in east China, no casualties

    08/02/2011 05:00

    A 1,000-year-old building is believed to have been destroyed in a fire at a Buddhist temple in Fuzhou, capital of east China’s Fujian Province, Monday. Fire fighters try to put out fire at the buring Fahai Temple in Fuzhou, southeast...

  • Egypt counts cost of turmoil, protesters undaunted 

    08/02/2011 05:00

    An Egyptian flag is carried through the crowd in the opposition stronghold in Tahrir Square in Cairo February 8, 2011. Egyptians counted the economic cost of more than two weeks of turmoil on Wednesday as re-invigorated protesters...

  • Nokia ‘on a burning platform,’ CEO warns in memo 

    08/02/2011 05:00

    Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop speaks during a press conference in Espoo, Finland, on September 10, 2010. World-leading mobile phone company Nokia is “standing on a burning platform,” surrounded by a “blazing fire” of...

  • South Sudan votes 98.83 percent to secede 

    07/02/2011 05:00

    A Sudanese man shows the palms of his hands after he dipped them in the blood of a sacrificial cow as he and others celebrate the results of the January referendum on the secession of southern Sudan from the north in the capital Khartoum....

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