MELBOURNE, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Wimbledon champion Rofer Federer advanced to the third round at the Australian Open with a 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 victory over Russian Nikolay Davydenko here on Thursday. The two 31-year-olds know each other well, on court at le...
ROME, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Napoli returned to the second place in Serie A standings after having had their two-point penalty annulled on appeal in the match-fixing scandal on Thursday. The club had been docked two points and fined 70,000 Euros by the...
SANTIAGO, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Spanish pilot Joan Nani Roma (Mini) in car category, Dutch Frans Verhoeven (Yamaha) in motorcycle category and Sebastian Husseini, from the United Arab Emirates, in quad category, Thursday won Dakar Rally' s 12th stage,...
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday warned of bubble driven by improper regulations on financial institutions. Addressing business and political leaders at the World Economic Forum here, Merkel called o...
MILAN, Italy, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- After traveling his country far and wide for years, Italian Paolo Galimberti stepped back as head of young entrepreneurs of Confcommercio business association in order to give a helping hand to the upswing of nationa...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Thursday announced as part of the department's plans to remove gender-based barriers to service, the Pentagon is to rescind a 1994 rule that prohibits women from assignment to dir...
TOKYO, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese fishing boat was detained by Japanese authorities on Thursday for unauthorized fishing in waters around Nagasaki Prefecture in southwestern Japan, Chinese Consulate General in Fukuoka told Xinhua. The boat, regist...
BEIJING, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Two senior military officials on Thursday called for improved work styles within the military and greater efforts to fight formalism and bureaucracy. Fan Changlong, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC),...
BEIJING, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Beijing will maintain its license plate lottery scheme next year, as well as cap the number of registered cars at 240,000, a local official said Thursday. Li Xiaosong, deputy director of the municipal commission of transp...
MILAN, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Serie A giants Milan confirmed on Thursday that they are talking with Real Madrid about a possible January move for Kaka. The club's own TV station, Milan Channel, have revealed that the two clubs are discussing the possibi...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's reigning FIFA Club World Cup champions Corinthians have been ranked second behind France's Paris Saint-Germain among the world's highest spending clubs so far in 2013. At the midway point of FIFA's Europea...
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Mexican Olympic race walker Noe Hernandez died of a heart attack on Wednesday after being shot in the head. The 34-year-old, 2000 Sydney Olympics runner-up, died on his way to the hospital following two heart attacks...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian top-flight club Gremio has confirmed the signing of Chile international striker Eduardo Vargas on a one-year loan deal from Italian Serie A outfit Napoli. Gremio's executive director Rui Costa confirmed t...
MOSCOW, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Russia stands firm for the international order based on equality, mutual respect and a pragmatic approach to controversial issues, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday. Reviewing major diplomatic ties between Russ...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday in a congressional hearing took responsibility for the security failure in the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. But she defended fiercely for the han...
