Blackstone
Brigadier
These two men look like they genuinely like each other.
Elegant and pretty, she's got the whole package.
better to be in the BRICS than the PIIGS.
PIIGS = Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain.That's new (PIIGS) I haven't heard of that one before.
I don't think Xi trusts Kerry.
NOBODY trusts JOHN (I served in Viet-Nam)Kerry, I think Rush calls him, "Lurch", kinda insulting to Lurch, as Lurch was very trustworthy...... just saying.
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech during the sixth BRICS summit in Fortaleza, Brazil, July 15, 2014. (Xinhua/Lan Hongguang)
Zhang Dejiang (R), chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC), meets with the First Vice President of the Russia State Duma Ivan Melnikov in Beijing, capital of China, July 15, 2014. (Xinhua/Li Tao)
Photo taken on July 15, 2014 shows the burned bus in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province. Two people died and 25 were injured in a bus explosion in Guangzhou Tuesday evening, police said. (Xinhua/Liang Xu)
Residents wade through water on a flooded road in Fenghuang Ancient Town in Fenghuang County, central China's Hunan Province, July 15, 2014. More than 120,000 locals and tourists have been evacuated since Monday night as record downpours hit the county, a tourist destination renowned for its ancient town. (Xinhua/Bai Yu)
Rescuers work after a rainstorm in Fenghuang Ancient Town in Fenghuang County, central China's Hunan Province, July 15, 2014.
Rescuers evacuate victims after a rainstorm in Fenghuang Ancient Town in Fenghuang County, central China's Hunan Province, July 15, 2014.
Rescuers work at the site of railway tunnel collapse in Funing County of Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Wenshan, southwest China's Yunnan Province, July 16, 2014. Fourteen workers are confirmed to be alive but another one remains out of contact so far after part of a railway tunnel collapsed. The tunnel collapsed at around 4 p.m. on July 14, trapping 15 workers. (Xinhua/Hu Chao)
Li Jiheng, governor of Yunnan Province, talks with trapped workers with telephone at the site of railway tunnel collapse in Funing County of Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Wenshan, southwest China's Yunnan Province, July 15, 2014.
A boy waits an acquaintance on a water-logged road in Guiyang, capital of southwest China's Guizhou Province, July 16, 2014. Guizhou meteorological authority on Wednesday issued a red alert for torrential rain in Guiyang where the precipitation has reached 169.5 mm. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu)
Citizens watch the flood water in Guiyang, capital of southwest China's Guizhou Province, July 16, 2014.
Beijing police have increased helicopter patrols since May as an anti-terror precaution, according to the municipal public security authorities. Yang Dongfeng, captain of the air police team, said eight patrol routes cover almost all transport hubs, major urban centers, open markets, parks and checkpoints on highway entrances to Beijing. [Photo/Chinanews.com]
New album of singer Jane Zhang, "The Seventh Sense" is to be released and its trailer just comes out. (Source: ent.news.cn)
Over 120,000 evacuated as picturesque old town district of Fenghuang is swamped by flooding in mountainous part of Hunan province.