President Hu Jintao is set to arrive in Seoul today for the start of a weeklong official visit to the Republic of Korea (ROK), Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.
The Chinese leader’s trip comes amid expectations of closer cooperation and ties, including trade with the ROK and regional security with its Central Asian neighbors.
Lee Dong-kwan, spokesman for the [...]
First Minister Alex Salmond takes his cabinet on the road again in the latest of a series of meetings around the country.
Highland Perthshire is the latest stop on Tuesday, with a meeting of cabinet at the Atholl Palace hotel in Pitlochry.
Mr Salmond and his team of cabinet secretaries will then face the public in a [...]
U.S. President George W Bush on Monday left the White House for a weeklong trip to Asia, which is also his last visit to the region as the US President. The first couple boarded Air Force One on Monday at Andrews Air Force Base en route to South Korea, Thailand and China.
President Bush will travel [...]
A dozen teenage boys from a British grammar school are waiting to be flown back home after being robbed at gunpoint on a trip to Guatemala, their head teacher said.
The teenagers, from the Skinners’ School in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, were two-thirds of the way into a month-long trip organised by World Challenge Expeditions, where they [...]
Fresh from an eight-day overseas foreign policy fact-finding mission, Sen. Barack Obama today said the economy back home has worsened so dramatically that he believes a second stimulus package may be warranted.
Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, said he will meet with economic strategists beginning Monday to discuss short-term and long-term solutions to the country’s [...]
Two days and a shave after returning from the top of the world, Gov. Bill Ritter says he remains convinced in his plans to deal with climate change at the state level.
Ritter and dozens of climate experts, political figures, non-profit managers, business leaders and clergy completed a week-long trip this past weekend to the Norwegian [...]
National League starting pitcher Ben Sheets wants a piece of Yankee Stadium for an All-Star keepsake, but he’s not going to scoop dirt from the mound.
“I’m going to keep my cleats, and hopefully they’ll have something there,” the Milwaukee Brewers right-hander said Monday.
For the 12 NL All-Stars who have never played a game at Yankee [...]
The Republican governor is meeting with several businesses at the Farnborough International Air Show in England on Monday. Also on his itinerary are a nuclear waste processing plant in France, and meetings with officials in Spain and Russia.
Crist says he hopes the trip will generate economic opportunities for Florida.
But Democratic Party spokesman Eric Jotkoff says [...]
Seven-year-old Ryan Sisitki is excited about the big, gold, Panther Martin spinner in his tackle box. But he is ecstatic about the latest walleye.
“C’mon, you guys, let’s do the stretch thing,” Sisitki said. The adults break up laughing, having just joked about the need to stretch the fish we are catching.
We’ve boated 15 walleye, two [...]
News confirms that the couple are on their way back to Los Angeles after spending a romantic weekend in Mexico. Their private jet is expected to touch down at Van Nuys Airport sometime tonight.
The Friends With Money star and the Heavier Things artist landed south of the border on Friday and then shuttled over to [...]
