BEIJING: Legislators in the Chinese capital plan to draft a regulation on garbage disposal, which is expected to enforce garbage sorting system while regulating controversial garbage incineration plants.
Saturday’s Beijing News quoted a document of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal People’s Congress as saying that the regulation would be drafted this year and submitted [...]

WASHINGTON – A man shot and wounded two security officers at an entrance to the Pentagon near a busy commuter rail station on Thursday before being fatally wounded in a shootout, officials and media reports said.The gunman, identified in media reports as 36-year-old John Patrick Bedell of California, was apparently trying to gain entry to [...]

MOSCOW – Russia does not intend to beef up its nuclear potential, but will keep nuclear weapons that are key to the country’s independence, President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday.
“We do not need to build up the potential of our strategic deterrence, but possession of nuclear weapons is crucial to pursuing independent policies and to safeguarding [...]