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"The 'raiders' are an extraordinary cross-section of talent, tenacity, experience and courage."

At least 10 militants were killed and six others arrested on Thursday in an early morning clash with security forces in northwest Pakistan's Swat district, local TV channel reported. According to the private ARY News channel, a group of militants was attempting to enter Mingora, major town of Swat, by crossing Swat River when they confronted with the security forces. Ten militants were killed in the exchange of fire while six others were arrested who were later shifted to an unkn ...

Brazil's state-controlled oil and gas giant Petrobras announced Monday that its domestic daily oil production reached 1.98 million barrels in August, up five percent from the same period last year. The increase was due to operation being resumed in platforms Cherne 1, P-9, and P-40, which had undergone scheduled shutdowns in July, and also due to production at new wells connected to Campos Basin platforms, off Brazil's southeastern coast. Petrobras' daily oil and natural gas prod ...

The new U.S. tariffs on Chinese tire imports could escalate trade disputes between the two countries but a full-blown trade war is unlikely, experts say. The issue is especially thorny in light of the ongoing global economic downturn in which China is sensitive to trade barriers for its exports and U.S. labor unions are wary of foreign imports amid mounting unemployment, which currently stands at close to one in 10. U.S. President Barack Obama signed an order on Friday last week ...

China State Construction Engineering Corp. (CSCES), the country's largest homebuilder, has won more new construction contracts in the eight months to August this year compared with the same period last year, China Daily reported Tuesday. In a regulatory filing Monday, the Shanghai-listed homebuilder said it has signed new contracts worth 224.7 billion yuan (32.1 billion U.S. dollars) in the first eight months, up 20.4 percent from the previous year. In the same period, property sales soa ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Yankees will open and close the 2010 season against the Red Sox at Fenway Park, just the fifth time in 50 years the rivals both start and finish against each other.

U.S. President Barack Obama's keynote speech to Muslim world in Cairo on June 4 heralded a new chapter in the relations between the United States and the Muslim world. However, his promises have not yet been fulfilled 100 days after his speech, said analysts. All observers and experts considered Obama's speech in Cairo a leap in relations between the United States and the Muslim world, Syed Amin Shalaby, head of Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs and Egypt's former ambassador to Washin ...

Three children and three women were killed in a landmine blast in southwest Pakistan's Balochistan province on Sunday, local TV channel reported. &$&$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ...

China Mobile, the world's biggest telecom company by market value, has started work on listing its shares on the domestic market, the Shanghai Securities News reported Saturday. Chairman and CEO Wang Jianzhou said Friday on the sidelines of the 2009 Summer Davos in China's northeastern Dalian city that the company had launched work for Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the Chinese mainland. Wang said the company has been trying for domestic listing for years and he hoped this woul ...

After 35 years, the former Pirates star pitcher Steve Blass regained his control, but in a different game. Blass, whose career ended in 1974 when he inexplicably lost his ability to throw the ball over the plate, made two holes in one in a span of 11 holes during the team’s annual alumni golf outing. Golf Digest estimates the odds against having two holes in one during the same round are 67 million to 1.

Playing it safe is not in choreographer Trey McIntyre’s nature. “If ideas are not inspiring me to go to some place unfamiliar and a little scary, they’re not worth my time,’’ he says. “It’s about the process, that terrifying level of exploration. It’s terrible and cathartic and ecstatic and wonderful every single time.’’

&$ &$Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai (R) listens as his Slovakian counterpart Robert Fico addresses during a joint press conference in Szecseny, Hungary, near the Slovakian border on Sept. 10, 2009. (Xinhua/Hungarian News Agency/Koszticsak Szilard)&$&$ Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai and his Slovak counterpart Robert Fico issued an 11-point joint statement at a meeting in the Hungarian border town ...

AP - Richard Petty Motorsports and Yates Racing plan to merge in 2010, with the four-car team running Fords under the RPM banner.

After 10 years, a planned temple to Balenciaga, the designer’s designer who obsessed over sleeves and gave the world the cocoon coat, has yet to materialize.

About 20 private schools have closed or been taken over in Britain since the beginning of the year.

Top Chinese legislator Wu Bangguo said in Phoenix Tuesday that despite the financial crisis he was confident about "the bright future" of the Chinese-U.S. economic cooperation and trade. "Although no clear signs of world economic recovery have emerged and the long-term impact of the international financial crisis cannot be overlooked, we can be confident about a bright future of China-U.S. economic cooperation and trade," said Wu, Chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National Pe ...

A third potential buyer for the Phoenix Coyotes, a group called Ice Edge, apparently will not bid for the team at an auction Thursday.

&$ &$The passenger who gets on bus firstly praises that the bus saves time and brings convenience, photo from Tibet Daily.&$&$ Currently, buses in Bayi township of Nyingchi prefecture in Tibet start operation, which is appreciated by the local people. &$&$Source:China Tibet Information Center&$&$ ...

Nivea, Axe and Old Spice are pitching liquid soaps to men, complete with manlier “poufs.”

Although China has more than 50% of global reserves of rare earth resources, and accounts for 90% of global market share, the reality is that from 1990 to 2005, China's export volume of rare earth increased by nearly 10 times, while the average price fell to half the 1990 price. Some people believe that foreign trade of China's rare earth is a complete business failure. China's rare earth is "under bought." Vice-Minister Miao Wei of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said af ...