The court found former gynaecologist Eduardo Vela guilty of taking Ines Madrigal, now 49, away from her mother as a newborn in 1969
Authorities are struggling to keep pace with its rapidly growing urban population — a common problem across the country of 1.3-billion people.
Mexico’s IMF candidate says his battle with France’s Christine Lagarde is not over yet, but has chastised Europe for not making it a fair fight.
Leaders of five of the world’s major emerging powers said on Thursday the use of force in Libya and the Arab world should be avoided.
China appears to be moving aggressively to plug holes in its "Great Firewall" censorship system, foreign internet companies and analysts say.
China said it was difficult to maintain "friendly relations" with Norway, following the Nobel committee’s decision to award the Peace Prize to
China faced fresh criticism on Thursday over its angry reaction to dissident Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Prize.
Fresh heavy rains on Thursday brought more misery to a town in north-west China devastated by mudslides that have already killed more than 1 100.
Rescuers racing against a potential new deluge on Wednesday hurried to drain an unstable lake formed by China’s worst mudslides in decades.
The death toll from China’s worst mudslides in decades more than doubled to 702, officials said on Tuesday.
Security forces fanned out in China’s Urumqi city on Monday, the first anniversary of unrest that exposed ethnic tensions in the Xinjiang region.
Hundreds of rescuers struggled in treacherous conditions on Tuesday to find 106 people buried in a landslide in south-west China.
China observed a day of national mourning on Wednesday for victims of its killer quake, with newspaper front pages bathed in black.
The "Great Firewall of China" appeared intact on Tuesday as the government lashed out at Google for refusing to bow to strict censorship.
Design graduate Chen Chuang sprayed a whitewashed wall in central Beijing in broad daylight with big jagged blue letters — and then scurried away.
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/ 25 October 2007
McDonald’s is a company on a mission. Tired of being held up as an example of corporate evil and greed, the fast food chain has been hitting out at critics with a series of environmental and social initiatives designed to prove that it cares. Not content with just that, the company is also undergoing a makeover, redesigning some of its outlets in a way it hopes will revitalise the sites and attract more customers.
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/ 22 October 2007
Women in developing countries find it easier to break through the so-called glass ceiling than their colleagues in the West, according to a global study by PricewaterhouseCoopers. The firm interviewed more than a hundred business people in eight countries, including China, India and Germany, for the report on women’s economic participation for the Women’s Forum held in Deauville, France, last week.
Xstrata this week reaffirmed its acquisitive streak with a $1-billionoffer for South African platinum miner Eland, and the purchase of 50% of a thermal coal mine in Australia. The news came as the Anglo-Swiss mining giant posted a 20% rise in first-half sales to $14,2-billion, with a 27% increase in profit before interest and tax to $4,7-billion.