The price of benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasuries edged down on Wednesday and demand at an auction to sell five-year bonds was low, as Congress failed to agree a deal on state debt increase and the budget deficit.
// Jul. 28, 2011 - 07:39 GMT
Dozens were killed in floods and landslides, triggered by “the heaviest downpours in a century” in central South Korea, the Yonhap news agency said on Thursday citing the national emergency situations department.
// Jul. 28, 2011 - 06:00 GMT
Technical flaws in the railway signaling system were the likely reason of last week's deadly train collision in eastern China's, Xinhua said on Thursday, quoting the country's transport authorities.
// Jul. 28, 2011 - 03:55 GMT
Czech road police will award drivers who will successfully pass sobriety tests with a bottle of non-alcoholic beer till the end of August, Czech television said on Thursday.
// Jul. 28, 2011 - 03:27 GMT
Norwegian police are looking for an “insane and dangerous” man, who has compared himself with Anders Behring Breivik, the principal suspect in the twin terror attacks in Norway last Friday in which 76 people died, local media reported on Wednesday.
// Jul. 27, 2011 - 07:19 GMT
China launched on Wednesday an indigenous satellite as part of its expanding navigation and global positioning network, the Xinhua news agency reported.
// Jul. 27, 2011 - 03:52 GMT
Opposing sides in the Libyan conflict are far from reaching a political compromise but they say ready to discuss the possible solutions with the United Nations, UN special envoy to Libya Abdul Al Khatib said.
// Jul. 27, 2011 - 03:33 GMT
The death toll in a collision between two high-speed trains in east China's Zhejiang province has risen to 35 people while the number of those injured in the incident stands at 210, official news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday, referring to rescuers.
// Jul. 24, 2011 - 08:08 GMT
The death toll in two separate attacks in Norway has dropped to 92, including seven people killed in a deadly bombing in Oslo and 85 shot dead at a nearby youth camp on the Utoya Island, Norwegian TV channel NRK reported on Sunday, citing police data.
// Jul. 24, 2011 - 04:58 GMT