International

Chicken pox vaccine reduces shingles risk in kids: study
04/12/2009 05:00
Herpes zoster, also known as shingles, is very rare among children who have been vaccinated against chicken pox, according to a California-based Kaiser Permanente study. The study, the largest of its kind, used electronic health records to identify...
50 missing, 6 injured in ferryboats collision in Egypt
04/12/2009 05:00
About 50 people went missing after two passenger ferryboats collided Friday on the Nile River in northern Egypt, said local Nile News TV. People search for survivors of a collision between two passenger ferries as a part of one of the ferries is...
Geithner says 700-billion-dollar TARP will end soon
03/12/2009 05:00
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Wednesday that the Obama administration will outline its plan to end the 700-billion-dollar financial bailout program. U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner testifies before the Senate...
Facebook to better privacy settings
03/12/2009 05:00
Major changes on privacy control won’t be far away for Facebook. Testing a series of changes to its privacy controls for about five months, Facebook decided to make them official, founder Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday. In an open letter,...
Swiss court to place Polanski under house arrest Friday
03/12/2009 05:00
Oscar-winning film director Roman Polanski finally finished his two-month long jail life in Switzerland, and soon will be placed under house arrest at his Alpine chalet on Friday. The director must stay in his house, which locates in the luxury...
AIG chooses HK as AIA listing venue
03/12/2009 05:00
The American International Group Inc.(AIG) said Thursday it chose Hong Kong as the listing venue for its Asian life insurance unit American International Assurance (AIA). The troubled but bailed-out U.S. insurer will go ahead with the up-to-10...
Microsoft says patch of Windows 7 isn’t cause of black screen
02/12/2009 05:00
Microsoft on Tuesday denied a claim that its November security patch of Windows 7 is among the possible causes of the black screen problems affecting some Windows users. On Friday, Prevx, a maker of antivirus software, which is based in the U.K.,...