Two major Chinese aviation companies announced in Zhuhai on Tuesday their purchases of stakes in the Airbus Engineering Center in Beijing.

A Chinese aircraft engine producer on Tuesday signed a long-term cooperation agreement with French aero engine maker Snecma.

"I like this plane, it's comfortable and safe," Pride Malandra said when he got off a China- made MA60 plane at the Harare International Airport. The newly imported plane travels almost every day between Zimbabwe's capital Harare and Victoria Falls, one of Africa's best-known natural wonders.

Major Chinese stock market indices rose on Tuesday as stronger bluechips boosted market confidence.

Nigeria is to establish two additional regional gas pipelines to sell gas to European markets, local media reported on Tuesday.

The EU will broaden and deepen its cooperation with the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions in areas of common interests, and such cooperation should be backed-up by financial instrument, said a document issued in Hong Kong Tuesday.

Many African countries have lifted significant percentages of their citizens above the poverty line and might well be on course to meeting the income poverty Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of halving poverty by 2010, according to a World Bank report released in Washington Monday.

Inspection teams will be sent to four Chinese provinces in November to supervise the implementation of the central government's policies aimed at easing farmers' burdens.

United States Steel Corp. said Tuesday its net income surged sharply in the third quarter compared to the same period of last year.

Wages and benefits paid to American workers rose by 1 percent in the third quarter of this year, the fastest pace since the second quarter of 2004, the Labor Department reported Tuesday.