RIO DE JANEIRO, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Neymar has rejected the latest reports linking him with a move to Barcelona by insisting he has still not considered leaving Brazilian club Santos. Last week Barcelona defender and Neymar's Brazil teammate Daniel A...
ATHENS, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Greek indignant returned to protest austerity outside the parliament building for first time after several months on Sunday evening with a symbolic rally which ended in minor scuffles with police forces. Poverty, unemploy...
BEIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) -- China plans to dismantle the Ministry of Railways into administrative and commercial arms to reduce bureaucracy and improve railway service efficiency, a top Chinese official said Sunday. The existing Railways Ministry,...
EIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) -- All the 2,103 cultural units including theaters and art troupes previously sponsored by governments of different levels in China have been restructured under market-oriented cultural reform. This was disclosed by Minister...
ACCRA, Mar. 5 (Xinhua) -- Ghana's junior national soccer team, the Black Starlets, will firm up preparations in Egypt and some European countries for the 2013 African U-17 championship fixed for April 13-27 in Morocco, minister for Finance Seth Tekpe...
RIO DE JANEIRO, March 5 (Xinhua) -- Former Real Madrid and Bayern Munich midfielder Ze Roberto, who is set to start for Gremio in Tuesday's Copa Libertadores clash against Caracas, missed his team's final training session on Monday. Gremio coach Vand...
RIO DE JANEIRO, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Manchester United could make a move for Brazilian teenager defender Antonio Carlos this summer. Carlos impressed Old Trafford scouts in January while captaining Brazil's under-20 team at the South American champion...
DAMASCUS, March 9 (Xinhua) -- The captors of the UN peacekeepers have been divided on whether to release the group before setting them free on Saturday, the head of office of the UN- Arab League (AL) joint special representative to Syria told Xinhua...
WASHINGTON, March 9 (Xinhua) -- One week after the federal government spending cuts took effect, U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday called on Congress to end the spending cuts to bolster the country's economic growth and job creation. We learned...
CARACAS, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) announced on Saturday after a special meeting of its Board of Directors that the presidential elections will be held on April 14. CNE president Tibisay Lucena said the nominati...
BEIJING, March 9 (Xinhua)-- China's annual consumer inflation rebounds to a 10-month high of 3.2 percent in February on accounts of rising food prices during the Spring Festival season, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) data showed Sa...
BEIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) -- The State Council, or China's cabinet, will begin its seventh restructuring attempt in the past three decades to curb red tape and reduce administrative intervention in the market and social issues. The number of ministr...
OSAKA, March 8 (Xinhua) -- The Osaka Asian Film Festival (OAFF) 2013 opened Friday in the western Japanese city of Osaka, featuring more than 40 selected films from across Asia, with the aim to develop Asian film culture and facilitate exchange of pe...
MADRID, Mar. 5 (Xinhua) -- Atletico Madrid have announced an agreement to extend the contract of coach, Diego Simeone for a further four seasons. The Argentinean, whose current deal was due to expire at the end of the current season, has agreed a new...
HOUSTON, March 3 (Xinhua) -- Chandler Parsons scored a career-high 32 points to lift the Houston Rockets to an easy 136-103 win over the Dallas Mavericks Sunday night in Houston. The win ended the Rockets' nine-game losing streak to the Mavericks. Ja...
