MADRID, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- Former Valencia coach Mauricio Pellegrini this Sunday criticized the club's decision to sack him from his post on Saturday after just 14 league matches in charge of the club. Pellegrini was relieved of his duties on Saturda...
CHENGMAI, Hainan, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- As China seeks to shake off its image of the world's mass-producer of cheap products and move up the value chain, Chinese companies are trying to reshape their reputations in the international market to win accept...
BEIJING, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- China's fixed asset investment rose 20.7 percent year on year to 32.62 trillion yuan (5.18 trillion U.S. dollars) in the first 11 months of 2012, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Sunday. The growth rate stood u...
BEIJING, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- China's industrial production growth continued to accelerate in November, indicating that the nation's economy is rebounding after seeing its lowest expansion pace in more than three years. China's value-added industrial o...
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama met with the U.S. Congress top Republican, House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Sunday in search of a deficit-reduction package that would prevent substantial spending cuts and tax increases from going in...
DOHA, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations climate talks in Doha entered the final stage Saturday with drafts of the low- ambitious second period of Kyoto Protocol and weak commitment on climate finance after overnight negotiations on differences be...
CAIRO, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- Egypt's main opposition bloc, dubbed National Salvation Front, announced Sunday evening rejection of the constitutional referendum slated for Dec. 15, urging all its supporters to say No to the draft constitution. After a le...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- FIFA president Sepp Blatter has given his backing to the possible future candidacy of Ronaldo as president of Brazil's Football Confederation (CBF). The three-time FIFA world player of the year has revealed an inte...
NANJING, East China, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- Nanjing's special product riverstone has been unveiled as the mascot for the 2014 Youth Olympic Games here. The pebble mascot named NANJINGLELE was unveiled on a big ceremony here on Thursday. The word lele re...
BEIJING, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- A most decorated team in China's top professional soccer league has been bought by a fellow league club after suffering a lack of fund from the investors. Dalian Shide, eight-time top league champions since 1994, was purch...
ROME, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- Stephan El Shaarawy scored a brace as AC Milan came from one goal down to beat Catania 3-1 in the Italian Serie A on Friday. Nicola Legrottaglie opened the scoring after 11 minutes with a powerful header, but the hosts suffe...
BEIJING, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- China's Foreign Ministry on Friday reiterated its position on current China-Japan relations, urging the Japanese side to make tangible efforts to properly address relevant issues in order to improve bilateral ties. Spokesm...
BEIJING, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Public Security has ordered the country's police not to arrange road closures in general and to minimize time for traffic controls arranged for officials' trips. Coming in response to central authority'...
ATHENS, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- Greek finance ministry officials appeared confident over the outcome of the debt buyback plan shortly before the Friday evening deadline, expressing optimism that targets set would be reached and the country's debt burden w...
HONG KONG, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale jolted off the east coast of Honshu, Japan at 23: 00:02 GMT on Friday (07:00:02 Beijing Time), the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 34.20 km, wa...
