China sets melamine levels for milk products
China on Wednesday introduced standards for levels of the industrial chemical melamine permitted in milk and food products as it seeks to rein in a festering safety scare.
Nations:Brazil New Zealand Activities:2008 China Milk Scandal Source:(AP)
2008-10-08
World stock markets plunge on crisis fears
LONDON - Stock markets slumped worldwide Monday, some marking record one-day drops, on fears the global financial crisis will worsen and hit the wider economy despite bank bailouts in the U.S. and Europe.
Nations:Germany France Luxembourg Brazil Colombia India Activities:2007 Global Credit Crunch Japanese Markets U.S. Markets European Markets Source:(AP)
2008-10-06
Deepening finance crisis causes global market panic
PARIS (AFP) - Desperate new measures by governments in Europe and North America to stabilise the financial system failed to stop panic selling that swept global markets Monday amid deepening gloom at the scope of the banking crisis.
Nations:France Germany Luxembourg Portugal Denmark Brazil People:Nicolas Sarkozy Gordon Brown George W. Bush Activities:2007 Global Credit Crunch U.S. Markets
2008-10-06
U.S. calls for unity as crisis wrecks markets
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Governments and central banks around the world grasped at measures to contain the fast-spreading financial crisis on Monday but global stocks still plummeted as investors bet a recession was inevitable.
Nations:Luxembourg Germany France Denmark Brazil Italy People:Nicolas Sarkozy Henry Paulson George W. Bush Activities:2008 Wachovia Deal 2007 Global Credit Crunch
2008-10-06
Amid milk scare, China's elite get special food
BEIJING - While China grapples with its latest tainted food crisis, the political elite are served the choicest, safest delicacies. They get hormone-free beef from the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, organic tea from the foothills of Tibet and rice watered by melted mountain snow.
Nations:China North Korea Colombia Kenya People:Kim Jong Il Activities:2008 China Milk Scandal China Wealth Gap Source:(AP)
2008-09-24
Curtain down on 'truly exceptional' Beijing Games
BEIJING (AFP) - The Beijing Olympics, played out against a background of political intrigue and featuring 16 days of compelling and controversial action, drew to a spectacular close on Sunday.
Nations:Kenya Spain Brazil Russia People:Led Zeppelin Michael Phelps David Beckham Kobe Bryant Zou Shiming Activities:2008 Beijing Olympics
2008-08-24
US hoops back on top, beats Spain for gold medal
BEIJING - Order is restored in international basketball. The United States is back on top, but not by that much anymore. Culminating a three-year mission to end years of embarrassment, the U.S. Olympic team survived a huge challenge from Spain, winning 118-107 Sunday in the gold-medal game.
Nations:Lithuania Argentina Spain People:Jason Kidd Carmelo Anthony Dwyane Wade LeBron James Michael Jordan Kobe Bryant Activities:2008 Beijing Olympics Source:(AP)
2008-08-24
China Olympic breakthroughs keep coming
BEIJING (AFP) - One thing China will take away from their home Olympics will be the series of breakthroughs in sports that previously eluded them and beach volleyball was added to that burgeoning list Thursday.
Nations:Brazil Netherlands Canada People:Li Na Liu Xiang Emilie Heymans Chen Ruolin Activities:2008 Beijing Olympics Source:(AFP)
2008-08-21
Fiery plane crash at Madrid airport kills 153
MADRID, Spain - A jetliner heading to the popular Canary Islands vacation resort crashed during takeoff Wednesday, turning a wooded area off the end of a runway into a hellish scene of charred bodies and smoldering wreckage. Some 153 were believed dead -- Spain's worst air disaster in nearly 25 years.
Nations:Spain Denmark Germany Brazil Sweden Source:(AP)
2008-08-20
No. 6: Phelps grabs yet another gold medal, WR
BEIJING - Michael Phelps collected the sixth gold medal and stuffed it in his warmup jacket. No time to even savor that one as he rushed off to swim again.
Nations:Australia Zimbabwe Brazil Russia Germany France People:Natalie Coughlin Michael Phelps Activities:2008 Beijing Olympics Source:(AP)
2008-08-15
Phelps advances, others claim Olympic spotlight
BEIJING - On the seventh day of the Olympics, Michael Phelps rested, and other swimmers made their splash. Australia's Stephanie Rice closed a brilliant Olympics with another world record. Kosuke Kitajima of Japan made it a double double in the breaststroke. Alain Bernard redeemed himself for the relay. And the home team got a chance to celebrate its first swimming gold.
Nations:Australia Brazil Japan France People:Stephanie Rice Michael Phelps Activities:2008 Beijing Olympics Source:(AP)
2008-08-14
China opens its long-sought Olympics spectacularly
BEIJING - China didn't just walk onto the world stage. It soared over it. At last playing its long-sought role as Olympic host, China opened the Summer Games in spectacular fashion Friday with an extravaganza of fireworks and pageantry dramatizing its ascendance as a global power.
Nations:Afghanistan Nepal Turkey Argentina Kenya Germany People:Dirk Nowitzki Roger Federer LeBron James Vladimir Putin Yao Ming Kobe Bryant Activities:2008 Beijing Olympics
2008-08-08
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