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Fifty US lawmakers earlier this month sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner calling for a probe into the plans of Ansteel, also known as Anshan Iron and Steel Group.

Chinese government officials have repeatedly called on the United States

The explosion went off at about 4:15 pm on the third floor of a district tax office in Changsha, capital of Hunan province, Xinhua news agency said, quoting a police statement.

China sees thousands of cases of violent social unrest each year, typically as marginalised s

Chinese companies have been pursuing trade with Iran despite the threat of U.S. sanctions and a June United Nations Security Council resolution imposing more punitive measures on Tehran over its nuclear program, the officials told a House of Representatives committee.

Zijin had already been ordered to halt production and make modifications at the copper mine.

Zijin said earlier that police had detained three executives at the copper mine and the securities regulator had launched an investigation into the company over possible violation o

The Chicago-based firm behind the sale, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, had planned to sell the morbid items in — wait for it — its Fine Books and Manuscripts auction, among roughly 450 other lots. The pieces, supposedly saved by the Memphis Funeral Home's senior embalmer, had been d

NEW YORK – Steven Meisel, one of the premier fashion photographers working today, has teamed up with fashion house Balenciaga (the founder of which, Cristóbal Balenciaga, was once dubbed "the master of us all" by Christian Dior, no sartorial slouch himself) to present the lab

But aside from the spill, BP's business is steaming ahead with underlying quarterly profits up 77 percent from the year before thanks to higher oil and gas prices and better refining margins.

The White House said President Barack Obama spoke with Svanberg on Monday but declin

The general who Obama nominated to head the command that oversees the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq agreed.

Some analysts said the revelations could be damaging as the White House seeks to shore up sagging public support for the war while setting the stage to start withdrawin

In a sign of trouble ahead for the Democrats, the poll found evidence of a sizable enthusiasm gap with Republicans more energized about voting in the elections.

The poll provided evidence that Americans are unhappy that Obama and the Democrats chose to de

BP said it would become a leaner, higher-quality business through its planned sale of $30 billion in assets. The company has already made a start with the $7 billion sale of gas assets in the United States, Canada and Egypt to Apache Corp.

Svanberg said the company's prio