Slumping consumer demand pushed China’s consumer and producer price indices into negative territory in February, state-run media reported Tuesday.
Consumer demand slumps in China
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Dalai Lama: China makes life ‘hell on Earth’ for Tibetans
The Chinese government has made life "hell on Earth" for Tibetans during the half-century since a failed uprising against its rule in 1959, the Dalai Lama said Tuesday. The explosion occurred in the Matara district, the defense ministry said on its Web site. The blast targeted Muslims attending Milad-un-Nabi celebrations, which observe the birth of Prophet Muhammad
Obama moves to separate politics and science
As President Obama reversed the Bush administration’s limits on embryonic stem-cell research, he said scientific decisions must be "based on facts, not ideology." The president on Monday signaled a clear shift in tone from the Bush administration on a broad range of scientific issues. Obama overturned an order signed by President Bush in 2001 that barred the National Institutes of Health from funding research on embryonic stem cells beyond using 60 cell lines that existed at that time
Tim Geithner He’s Hiring! And His Critics Hope It’s Soon
After a one-year, 50% drop in the stock market, and the fastest, deepest spate of job losses since 1974, Americans have a lot of data to support their sense that the country’s economic house is crumbling. The last thing they want to hear is that the man charged with the reclamation project doesn’t have a crew ready to start work. So when news broke late last week that two top nominees for the Treasury department were withdrawing their names from consideration for undisclosed personal reasons, what ordinarily might have been dismissed as a harmless staffing snafu became the latest cause for unease among those watching Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner
Not even renters safe from foreclosure storm
Maria Stephens barely flinches when her three rambunctious young sons strike up a baseball game in her living room. "I thought you boys were going to play in the front yard," she laughs while Christian, 2, swings a black plastic bat near the kitchen table.
Embryonic stem cell reversal is distraction, congressman says
A top congressional Republican on Sunday criticized President Barack Obama’s expected decision to reverse the Bush administration’s limits on embryonic stem-cell research, calling it a distraction from the country’s economic slump.
Former Israeli president to face rape charges, officials say
Israel’s attorney general will indict former President Moshe Katsav on charges of rape and sexual assault of a number of his employees, the country’s justice ministry said Sunday. Katsav will also be charged with obstruction of justice, Attorney General Menachem Mazuz said in a statement. Katsav had agreed in 2007 to plead guilty to lesser charges and pay a fine in order to avoid jail time, but pulled out of the deal when it came time to enter his plea
Injured Tsvangirai returning to Zimbabwe for wife’s funeral
Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai will return to the country for his wife’s funeral on Wednesday, a spokesman for his Movement for Democratic Change party says.
Afghanistan: Friendly fire incident kills two
Two Afghan police officers were killed in a friendly fire incident in the northeast part of the country, the U.S.-led coalition said Sunday.
Dozens killed in suicide blast near Iraq police academy
A man wearing an explosives-laden vest blew himself up outside a police recruitment center in eastern Baghdad Sunday, killing 28 people and wounding 57 others. Kim himself is running. And his near-certain win would affirm that the 67-year-old leader is firmly in control of the nuclear-armed nation despite a reported stroke in August