DAMASCUS, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Visiting former U.S. President Jimmy Carter Saturday expressed here the hope that a new U.S. administration would engage in the peace process in the Middle East, the official SANA news agency reported. Carter expressed the hope while meeting with Syri

MOGADISHU, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Authorities in northwestern Somalia said Saturday that local security forces captured five men suspected of planning to carry out piracy activities off the coa...

KATHMANDU, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- As many as 100 passengers were injured in a bus accident in the Nepali capital Kathmandu on Saturday evening. A bus which was crowded with picnickers collided with another bus in Kathmandu, injuring 100 passengers, the National News Agency RSS report

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Shaun Donovan, New York City's housing commissioner, was chosen by U.S. president-elect Barack Obama Saturday as his secretary of Housing and Urban Developmen...