25 Mar 2005 09:58 AM

Good Friday ceremonies looked defective without Pope John Paul II. On Thursday evening, the pope was only able to watch from his apartment on television as a cardinal read his message to the followers in a service at St. Peter’s Basilica.

25 Mar 2005 09:47 AM

President Bush’s plan of temporary legalization for immigrants work faced unexpected obstacles from the House of Representatives. Bush seemed to acknowledge the difficulties facing his plan only during the meeting with Mexican President Vicente

24 Mar 2005 06:41 PM

Fast-growing spending on pensions and healthcare will reduce the debt status of the world’s richest industrialised countries to junk within 30 years unless their governments take action to balance budgets and shrink outgoings, according to a report released on Monday. Standard

24 Mar 2005 12:22 PM

US insists international monitors to be present at Lebanon elections

24 Mar 2005 11:59 AM

China is thought to be the only country that can bring North Korea back to the six-party dialogue. Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said Thursday that North Korea still commits to the process but that "deep distrust" between Pyongyang and the United States remained the key stumbling block.

24 Mar 2005 11:55 AM

Prince Rainier III of Monaco, the world’s second-longest reigning monarch, remains in the intensive care unit for the third day after the complications after the chest infection.

24 Mar 2005 09:07 AM

Cruel clashes started in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek as riot police began to use force towards the opposition in the streets that demands ouster of the country’s president Akayev.

24 Mar 2005 08:58 AM

The White House’s nominee for the U.S. Treasury’s top international spot, Timothy Adams, is expected to improve the low-rating reputation of the agency.

24 Mar 2005 08:54 AM

Astronomers, for the first time in the history, managed to detect light coming from planets outside our solar system.

24 Mar 2005 08:51 AM

Michael Jackson is charged with regaling the boy with alcohol in 2003 when the boy was 13, molesting him four times and conspiring to abduct and extort the boy and his family. Jackson has pleaded innocent. He has said the teenagers and their mother are lying to gain money from him in a potential civil lawsuit.

24 Mar 2005 08:46 AM

India’s Parliament approved on Wednesday the bill which prohibits domestic drug companies from producing low-cost copies of expensive Western medicines, while India has 5.1 million HIV-infected people in extreme need of that treatment. By passing the new law, India tries to create all conditions for joining the World Trade Organization

23 Mar 2005 12:18 PM

The confusing situation appeared in India on Wednesday as the Parliament approved the bill which prohibits domestic drug companies from producing low-cost copies of expensive Western medicines, while India has 5.1 million HIV-infected people in extreme need of that treatment.

23 Mar 2005 12:10 PM

The EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said Wednesday it is not justified to keep arms embargo on China regarding its efforts to resolve its human rights issue.

23 Mar 2005 12:05 PM

China may give sufficient help in the long-lasting debate linked to North Korea’s refusal to resume nuclear talks after Chinese President Hu Jintao met with North Korea’s premier Pak Pong Ju on Wednesday.

23 Mar 2005 12:05 PM

Diplomatic sources in Tokio have reported that today’s negotiations in Beijing between North Korean premier Pak Pong-ju and Chinese President Hu Jintao once again set the pressure on North Korea to return in three-month term to six-party talks on its nuclear program issue.