Shenzhou VI comes back SHENZHOU VI, China’s second manned spaceship, returned safely to Earth at 4:33 a.m. Monday following a successful five-day flight two years after China put the first Chinese national in space.
Palestinian gunmen kill three ISRAEL suspended contacts with the Palestinian Authority on Monday and slapped tough travel restrictions on the West Bank after Palestinian gunmen killed three young Israelis and wounded five in two drive-by shootings near Jewish settlements.
Curtain falls on China Hi-Tech Fair SHENZHEN Mayor Xu Zongheng invited all participants from China and abroad to return to the Eighth China Hi-Tech Fair (CHTF), which is scheduled from Oct. 12 to 17 next year, at the closing ceremony of the Seventh CHTF at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center on Monday.
U.S. airstrikes claim 70 in Iraq U.S. warplanes and helicopters bombed two villages near the restive city of Ramadi, killing an estimated 70 militants, the military said Monday, though witnesses said at least 39 of the dead were civilians.
Rumsfeld arrives in Beijing U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will arrive Tuesday on his first visit to China since 2000, marking a new opening or at least a new way of thinking within the very conservative Pentagon towards a rapidly developing China.
SHENZHOU VI, China’s second manned spaceship, returned safely to Earth at 4:33 a.m. Monday following a successful five-day flight two years after China put the first Chinese national in space.
ISRAEL suspended contacts with the Palestinian Authority on Monday and slapped tough travel restrictions on the West Bank after Palestinian gunmen killed three young Israelis and wounded five in two drive-by shootings near Jewish settlements. 
U.S. warplanes and helicopters bombed two villages near the restive city of Ramadi, killing an estimated 70 militants, the military said Monday, though witnesses said at least 39 of the dead were civilians. 