Rescuers have found 29 dead bodies and evacuated 245 survivors after a ferry sank in the waters off the Riau province of Indonesia and dozens were still missing.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh flew into the Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington on Sunday afternoon, starting a high-profile visit to the United States.
Iran on Sunday began large-scale air defense war games aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from attack, state TV reported, as an air force commander boasted the country could deter any military strike by Israel.
Concerns over the environment and terrorism have not only affected how people lived in the past decade but also their language, with "global warming" and "9/11" topping a list of the most used words of the 2000s.
Rescuers have found 29 dead bodies and evacuated 245 survivors after a ferry sank in the waters off the Riau province of Indonesia and dozens were still missing.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh flew into the Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington on Sunday afternoon, starting a high-profile visit to the United States.
Iran on Sunday began large-scale air defense war games aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from attack, state TV reported, as an air force commander boasted the country could deter any military strike by Israel.
The 12th China-EU summit is to be held on November 30 in Nanjing, the capital of east China's Jiangsu province, according to an agreement reached by the two sides.
Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama on Wednesday for the second time in seven months, though private guards on board the US-flagged ship repelled the attack with gunfire and a high-decibel noise device.
