LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Argo won the Oscar Award for Best Picture Sunday night at the 85th Academy Awards Ceremony, together with Awards for Best Film Editing and Adapted Screenplay Writing. The film by Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George C...
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Ang Lee won the Best Director Oscar for his adventure film Life of Pi at Sunday night's 85th Academy Awards Ceremony. He beat Michael Haneke for Amour, Benh Zeitlin for Beasts of the Southern Wild, Steven Spielberg fo...
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Hollywood's night of nights did not disappoint its star-struck fans as Academy Awards nominees hit the red carpet Sunday night in stunning gowns and tuxedos. Jessica Chastian, Best Actress nominee for her role in Zero...
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Brave won the Oscar Award of Animated Feature Film Sunday night at the 85th Academy Awards Ceremony. The animated film of Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman featured a high-spirited Scottish princess named Merida who res...
LONDON, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- British actor Daniel Day-Lewis made film history Monday by winning the Best Actor Oscar for the third time, a feat hailed by his former primary school in London as fantastic. Day-Lewis won a third Best Actor honor for the...
NAIROBI, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Prior to Saturday, there was very little to write or say about Kenya's Philemon Rono, the Kaptagat ( Rift Valley) based distance runner. However, the beauty of Kenyan athletics is stories of rags to riches replicate each...
NAIROBI, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's football federation confirmed on Tuesday that the search of a successor to the departed Frenchman Henri Michel was over with four candidates short-listed and the final choice is expected to be announced on Wednesd...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in London, at the start of his first official trip overseas since taking over the country's top diplomatic position earlier this month. Kerry will meet with British Prime Minister David Cameron and Forei...
COLOMBO, Feb. 24 ((Xinhua) -- The United States on Sunday strongly condemned the attacks on Maldivian media personnel after three journalists were attacked in capital Male on Friday, officials said. The U.S. Embassy in Colombo, in a statement said th...
ROME, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Departing Pope Benedict XVI delivered his final public prayer ceremony on Sunday noon in Vatican City, drawing tens of thousands of emotional Catholics, together with tourists from across the world. The St. Peter's Square wa...
BEIJING, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Beijing authorities have ordered removal of the garbage in a pit near the Miyun Reservoir, a major source of water for the city, the local environmental protection bureau said late Sunday. According to a statement issued...
BEIJING, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- People around the country took part in various activities to celebrate the Lantern Festival, which falls on Sunday, marking the first full moon of the Chinese Lunar New Year. In the thousand-year-old Pingyao Town in north...
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- Silver Linings Playbook finished as the biggest winner at the 28th Independent Spirit Awards held in Santa Monica, California, taking home four top awards including best independent feature on the eve of the 85th Acad...
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- The 85th Academy Awards ceremony begins Sunday evening at the Dolby Theatre. It is the first Oscar big night after the theater changed the name from Kodak Theater to Dolby Theater last year. Some 282 features were eli...
MADRID, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Spanish national team coach Vicente del Bosque said Tuesday that he doubts whether his former club, Real Madrid, misses him, and he believes current Madrid coach Jose Mourinho is aggressive. Del Bosque left the club under...
