The new head of Syria's main opposition group called Sunday for mass defections from a Syrian regime struggling to survive by carrying out massacres, as the death toll in the uprising topped 14,000. Similar calls were made by the rebel Free Syrian Army ( …

Oh no he didn't. Brian Austin Green and Megan Fox are firing back at a photographer that is suing them for intentional infliction of injury, false imprisonment and assault. Photographer Delbert Shaw alleged in his lawsuit filed on March 26 that Fox egged …

British Prime Minister David Cameron is to appear next week before an inquiry into press ethics sparked by the phone-hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch's newspapers, the inquiry said Friday. Cameron, whose government has been under fire over a series of r …

Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo (R) meets with Afghan president Hamid Karzai in Beijing, capital of China, June 8, 2012. (Xinhua/Wang Ye) BEIJING foakleys flak jacket, June 8 (Xinhua) -- State Councilor Dai Bingguo met with Afghan President Hamid Ka …

  PHNOM PENH, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong, chair of 2012 ASEAN, said Thursday that his three-day visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) concluded with fruitful results for the bilateral ties. "Through the …

BEIJING, June 5 (Xinhua) -- China Investment Corporation (CIC), the country's sovereign wealth fund, said Tuesday it had signed a memorandum with Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) over the official launching and basic principles of the China-Russia …

BEIJING, June 5 (Xinhua) -- China Investment Corporation (CIC), the country's sovereign wealth fund, said Tuesday it had signed a memorandum with Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) over the official launching and basic principles of the China-Russia …

The internationalization of the renminbi is the will of the market rather than a government-backed move, People's Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan was quoted as saying on Monday. "It is the result of the growing power of the nation and its financial …

The internationalization of the renminbi is the will of the market rather than a government-backed move, People's Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan was quoted as saying on Monday. "It is the result of the growing power of the nation and its financial …

BEIJING, June 4 (Xinhua) -- Weather forecast for 17 majorChinese cities (20:00 June 4 - 20:00 June 5, Beijing Time foakleys,temperatures in Celsius): Min. Max. Condition Wind scale Beijing 19 32 cloudy <3 Harbin 14 23 shower/thundershower <3/3-4 Ti …