CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Danish Crown Prince Frederik and his Australian-born wife, Crown Princess Mary, have arrived in Sydney with their four children for an official weeklong visit.
The family landed Saturday and will spend two days in Sydney, where they met in a nightclub during the 2000 Olympics. The couple will then visit Melbourne, Canberra, western …
The death of Nelson Mandela's great-granddaughter cast a shadow over the opening day of the World Cup on Friday, dampening the spirits of a nation proud and excited to be hosting the world's most popular sporting event.
Zenani Mandela, 13, was killed in a car accident on the way home from a World Cup concert in Soweto on Thursday night, where tens of thousands of people had sung and danced with headline music stars Shakira and the Black Eyed Peas.
The Nelson Mandela foundation said later Mandela would not attend Friday's World Cup opening ceremony and game in Johannesburg, dashing South Africans' hopes the frail 91-year-old former president would make a rare …
According to the Hong Kong sources, the Intertextile Pavilion organised by Messe Frankfurt, CCPIT-Tex and the Shenzhen Garment Industry Association will return to Shenzhen from 25 - 27 July 2006. The fair is recognised by overseas and domestic textile manufacturers as an ideal marketing platform from which to tap into the South China market, one of the country's largest garment manufacturing centers.
"The pavilion was created to provide a professional meeting point for suppliers and buyers in this booming textile region," says Ms. Annie Ma, Group Manager for Messe Frankfurt (HK) Ltd. "We believe the time is right for us to help textile manufacturers explore new markets outside the …
Two suspected Islamic rebels and one soldier died as scores of government troops ended a four-day hotel siege in Indian Kashmir on Sunday, officials said.
Two paramilitary soldiers and two policemen were also wounded in the fighting in Sopore, a town 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of Srinagar, the summer capital of India's Jammu-Kashmir state, said B. Srinivasan, a senior police official.
One rebel fighter was killed Saturday night while the paramilitary soldier and another rebel died in the fighting Sunday before the standoff ended, Srinivasan said.
The siege _ punctuated by sporadic automatic gunfire and grenade blasts _ began when suspected …
President George W. Bush and congressional leaders seized on the latest grim unemployment data Friday to try to fire up lukewarm support in Congress for bailing out U.S. automakers. They clashed again, however, over terms of the rescue plan and the source of any aid.
As the Big Three auto chiefs pressed their case for $34 billion in a second day of hearings, Bush said in the White House Rose Garden that the loss of 533,000 jobs in November was even more reason to help the companies.
"I am concerned about the viability of the automobile companies" along with workers and their families, Bush said. "And likewise, I am concerned about taxpayer …
Longtime New York Philharmonic Orchestra conductor LeonardBernstein received the prestigious Edward MacDowell Medal on Sundayfor his lifetime achievements as a composer.
Bernstein was the 28th recipient of the award given at theMacDowell Colony, a 450-acre artists' …
SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's president walked across North Korea's border Tuesday on his way to Pyongyang for a summit with Kim Jong Il, pledging to foster peace on the divided peninsula in the second-ever such meeting between its leaders.
Roh Moo-hyun and his wife Kwon Yang-sook stepped across a yellow plastic strip marked with the words "peace" and "prosperity" and laid across the Military Demarcation Line that divides the Koreas in the middle of the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone.
Crossing near the North Korean city of Kaesong, the South Korean delegation was greeted by North Korean officials and women in traditional Korean hanbok dresses bearing bouquets. …
