U.S. stocks slumped on Friday after a weaker-than-expected payrolls report cast doubts on the strength of an economic recovery. The Labor Department said employers decreased hiring for the third straight month, adding 115,000 workers, below forecasts of …

THE HAGUE, May 4 (Xinhua) -- The trial chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia on Friday denied a request for Ratko Mladic's trail to postponed. The trial will go ahead as scheduled on May 16. During a pre-trial conferenc …

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) meets with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (Back) in Beijing, capital of China, May 4, 2012. (Xinhua/Zhang Duo) BEIJING, May 4 (Xinhua) -- Premier Wen Jiabao met with U.S. …

BEIJING Oakley Monster Dog Sunglasses, May 4 (Xinhua) -- The Ministry of Health has ordered health authorities to facilitate installing police stations in hospitals above county level, following several violent attacks against doctors. The ministry on F …

In this theater image released by Boneau/Bryan-Brown, Steve Kazee, left, and Cristin Milioti are shown in a scene from "Once," in New York. The production was nominated for a Tony Award for best musical, Tuesday, May 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Boneau/Bryan-Brow …

Anne Hathaway as Catwoman in "The Dark Knight Rises." REUTERS/Ron Phillips/Warner Bros Actor Mark Ruffalo arrives at the screening of the film "Marvel's The Avengers" for the closing night of the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival in New York April 28, 2012. R …

TOKYO, May 3 (Xinhua) -- Chinese tourists have spent an estimated 196.4 billion yen (about 2.43 billion U.S. dollars) in Japan in 2011, accounting for almost a quarter of the total spending by foreign travelers, and rank as the largest spenders by count …

BEIJING, May 3 (Xinhua) -- China and the United States agreed on Thursday that the exchange-rate regime should be decided by market supply and demand. Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People's Bank of China, made the remarks at a press conference on the s …

PARIS, May 3 (Xinhua) -- The clock is ticking for the incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy as the campaign is to officially end by midnight Friday and his Socialist challenger Francois Hollande remains on top of all polls for Sunday's runoff. The two riv …

Italy's Mount Etna and Mexico's Popocatépetl volcano have been huffing and puffing their way into the news recently, spewing plumes of ash and dribbling lava in the latest flare-ups of eruptive activity that have been going on for years in the case of b …