Beyondheadlines News Desk New Delhi: Steve Jobs, co-founder and former chairman and CEO of Apple,Inc., is no more. He was 56. Jobs had been battling pancreatic cancer since 2004 and received a liver transplant in 2009. In the latter stages of his cancer battle, he gave up the day-to-day running of the company but remained [...]
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) — U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday that the effort by the Palestinians to seek statehood at the United Nations was a “distraction,” according to media reports. During a roundtable discussion with Hispanic journalists, Obama said the Palestinian effort would not solve the problem of statehood, said the reports. The [...]
LONDON, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) — British Prime Minister David Cameron Monday promised to mend Britain’s “broken society” during his first set-piece speech since the riots which struck London and other English cities last week. Cameron vowed an “all-out war on gang culture” in the face of “a wake-up call” for the country after “social problems [...]
LONDON, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) — Riots again hit Britain on Tuesday evening for the fourth night in succession, with significant violence in the northern industrial city of Manchester as well as minor violence in London. A police officer is seen near a burnt building in Croydon, south London. (Courtesy: Xinhua) Police had posted 16,000 officers [...]
LONDON, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) — The streets of London were hit on Monday evening with a third night of violence as rioters attacked police, set fire to cars and looted shops in areas across the capital, which pressed Prime Minister David Cameron to cut short his holiday. The districts of Peckham, Lewisham, Croydon and Deptford [...]
Jiang Xufeng, Liu Lina WASHINGTON, July 31 (Xinhua) — U.S. President Barack Obama Sunday night unveiled a last-minute debt ceiling deal endorsed by Republican and Democratic leaders, in a bid to stave off a looming debt default crisis and ease market jitters. The U.S. federal government’s borrowing limit, currently at 14.29 trillion U.S. dollars, was [...]
Washington (AFP): How did the United States, the world’s richest nation and sole superpower, come to the brink of a catastrophic default on its debt that could send shockwaves through the fragile world economy? Dire economic downturns — including the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s — giant tax cuts, costly wars in [...]
Devapriyo Das, Yang Jingzhong OSLO, July 24 (Xinhua) — Norway has plunged in grief as its people come to terms with life after the massive bomb blast and shooting spree on Friday killed at least 93 people. Across Oslo, the Norwegian capital, makeshift memorials have been put up by residents near the sites damaged by [...]
OSLO, July 23 (Xinhua) — The death toll of the twin attacks Friday in Norway may surpass 87 after more victims were discovered in the shooting spree two hours after a bomb explosion that ripped buildings in the heart of Norway’s government. The figure was revised after police said at least 80 people were killed [...]
LONDON, July 20 (Xinhua) — British Prime Minister David Cameron was grilled by parliament members Wednesday about the phone-hacking scandal in an emergency parliament debate called by the opposition Labour Party. The session, held just ahead of the three-week parliamentary recess, was meant to pressure on the prime minister, who had to cut short his [...]
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