SAO PAULO, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- Former Brazil captain Lucio is close to sealing a deal with Brazilian club Sao Paulo as the 34- year-old rescinded Monday his contract with Italian champions Juventus after failing to secure a first-team place. The defe...
MILAN, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- Juventus head coach Antonio Conte said on Sunday his club will not sign any top player due to economic conditions. The January transfer window opens soon and newspapers in Italy claimed Juventus is finalising a deal to sign...
MADRID, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- Real Madrid remain top of the ACB Endesa basketball league thanks to a 97-87 win on Sunday. The win means Pablo Laso's side have won all 12 matches this season and have a three-win lead at the top of the table ahead of Val...
MADRID, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- Leo Messi underlined his status as the greatest goalscorer in history as his 89th and 90th goals of 2012 helped his side to a 4-1 win at home to Atletico Madrid on Sunday night. The win takes Barca nine points clear of Atl...
MADRID, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Malaga's exceptional first half to the season continued on Saturday night thanks to a 2-0 win away to Sevilla in the Spanish top league. Malaga's win in the Andalusian derby came thanks to second half goals from Martin Dem...
MADRID, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Real Madrid president Florentino Perez this Saturday defended under-fire coach Jose Mourinho at an event with the club's supporters. Perez used the award of medals to some of the oldest Real Madrid club members to praise M...
JAKARTA, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- World football governing body FIFA cancels its plan to give sanction to Indonesia as it has extended the deadline for the country to setle dispute between two football organizations to March 30 from the initial Dec. 10, l...
VANCOUVER, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- Canada unveiled its logo for the country's hosting of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup on Friday as gala ceremonies took place simultaneously in the six host cities staging games. Set against the country's iconic maple l...
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- Peter Jackson turns out to have a wider moviegoer-pleasing appeal than Tom Cruise and Judd Apatow, as his middle-earth epic The Hobbitt: An Unexpected Journey continued its hold of No. 1 ranking over the weekend, beat...
LONDON, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- Prince William and his pregnant wife Kate are going to spend this year's Christmas Day with Kate's parents, local media reported on Saturday. The decision will help the couple avoid the public eye and allow Kate to rest as...
BEIJING, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- The top legislature on Monday began deliberating a draft decision that will strengthen the protection of personal information online by requiring Internet users to identify themselves to service providers. The move is int...
BEIJING, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- China's top legislature is considering fairer recompense for farmers whose land has been expropriated, by breaking the legal compensation ceiling and covering them with a social security package. A draft amendment to the...
BEIJING, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- China's top legislature on Monday started to review nine draft laws, law amendments and revisions, including a new draft decision on Internet management. At a bimonthly session of the National People's Congress (NPC) Stan...
Continued political bickering in the United States is hurting stock and commodity prices and slowing spending by some U.S. holiday shoppers. Oil was selling at below $89 a barrel Monday, as traders worried that an economic downturn could cut demand f...
KABUL, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- A NATO police advisor was killed Monday morning when an Afghan policewoman opened fire in capital Kabul, local media Tolo TV reported. A policewoman with the Afghan National Police (ANP) opened fire at a foreign police advi...
