Chinese citizens in cities show growing demand for nutritional supplementsEvery time she takes a business trip to the United States or Europe, Wang Qi is given a shopping list by relatives and friends. Every time, the list is filled with names of high-end cosmetics brands and luxury items.Recently, however, that list has grown. The 32-year-old Beijing-based executive assistant says she doesn’t remember when the list started to grow but the names of nutritional supplements have been piling up. Sh

BAMAKO (AP) ― The junior officer who overthrew Mali’s democratically elected leader earlier this month and dissolved the nation’s constitution made a public U-turn, declaring amid enormous international pressure that he was reinstating the 1992 constitution and planning to hold elections.Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo added Sunday that he would organize a national convention to agree on a transitional government which will organize free and fair elections. What he did not make clear is when the conven

MEXICO CITY (AP) ― Former President Miguel de la Madrid, who led Mexico from 1982 to 1988 during an economic crisis and a devastating earthquake, died Sunday at age 77, the government said.De la Madrid was the first in a string of presidents who pulled Mexico away from a state-dominated economy and toward free trade by bringing the country into the precursor to the World Trade Organization and by privatizing hundreds of government businesses.President Felipe Calderon called De la Madrid “a Mexic

WAH THIN KHA, Myanmar (AP) ― Myanmar held a landmark election Sunday that was expected to send democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi into parliament for her first public office since launching her decades-long struggle against the military-dominated government.Sunday’s by-election, to fill a few dozen vacant seats, followed months of surprising reforms by a nominally civilian government that does not relish ceding ground to Suu Kyi, but which must appear more democratic in order to emerge from decades

CAIRO (AP) ― Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, in control of almost half the seats in parliament, announced on Saturday it was fielding its own presidential candidate. It was a reversal of an earlier decision to stay out of the race and could put the group on a collision course with the nation’s ruling generals.The Brotherhood nominated chief strategist and deputy leader Khayrat el-Shater, a multimillionaire businessman considered one of the key leaders guiding the group through the tumultuous transit

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made clear Saturday that time is running out for diplomacy over Iran's nuclear program and said talks aimed at preventing Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon would resume in mid-April.With speculation over a possible U.S. or Israel military attack adding urgency to the next round of discussions in Istanbul set for April 13, Clinton said Iran's ``window of opportunity'' for a peaceful resolution ``will not remain open

HAT YAI, Thailand (AP) ― Suspected Muslim insurgents staged the most deadly coordinated attacks in years in Thailand’s restive south, killing 14 people and wounding 340 with car bombs that targeted Saturday shoppers and a high-rise hotel frequented by foreign tourists.A first batch of explosives planted inside a parked pickup truck ripped through an area of restaurants and shops in a busy area of Yala city, a main commercial hub of Thailand’s restive southern provinces, said district police chie

LONDON (AP) ― Sydney’s iconic Harbor Bridge and Opera House went dark for an hour on Saturday, part of a global effort to shine a spotlight on climate change.Hundreds of landmarks around the world, including Washington’s National Cathedral, Big Ben in London, the Great Wall of China and Tokyo Tower are being dimmed at 8:30 p.m. local time.The central Sydney icons have been taking part in the annual event since Earth Hour began as a Sydney-only event in 2007. Australia was among the first countri

A 35-meter tsunami could hit the Japanese coast in the wake of a massive earthquake, an expert panel has said after revising its worst case scenario projections following last year's disaster. In this Nov. 12, 2011 file photo, the Unit 4 reactor building of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station is seen through a bus window in Okuma town, north of Tokyo. (AP-Yonhap News)If a

She struggled for a free Myanmar for a quarter-century, much of it spent locked away under house arrest. Now, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate whose nonviolent campaign for democracy at home transformed her into a global icon is on the verge of ascending to public office for the first time. Aung San Suu Kyi (AP-Yonhap News)Aung San Suu Kyi, 66, was elected to parliament Sunday in a historic victory