RIO DE JANEIRO, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's soccer powerhouse Flamengo on Monday sacked coach Joel Santana following the team's poor results. Flamengo's football director Zinho confirmed that the 63-year-old had been relieved of his duties following...
ISTANBUL Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party has forced the countrys once all-powerful army firmly back into the barracks and out of political life. The army's considerable business interests are now coming under growing scrutiny. In Turkey...
PARIS Stock markets and the euro currency dipped Tuesday after the international financial-rating agency Moody's lowered its credit outlook for Europe's strongest economy, Germany. New jitters are also surfacing over two shakier European economies, S...
Foreign policy has taken center stage in the U.S. presidential election campaign as the presumptive Republican Party nominee, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, embarks on an overseas trip designed to bolster his foreign policy and defense cr...
LONDON, July 22 (Xinhua) -- Japan's four-time Olympic swimming champion Kosuke Kitajima limbered up for retaining a third straight men's 100m and 200m breaststroke double at London Olympics. The 29-year-old, who took gold in the 100m and 200m breasts...
LONDON, July 22 (Xinhua) -- Maria Sharapova has said that she had dreamt of competing in the Olympic Games since she was a child and is looking forward to making her debut at London 2012. She will play in the women's singles at the All England Club w...
LONDON, July 22 (Xinhua) -- The captain on the US water polo team, Anthony Azevedo believes that his side can go one better than the silver medal that they won in Beijing four years ago and win the gold medal in London. Beijing saw the US defeated by...
MOSCOW, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Moscow named the players who would participate in the upcoming Olympic Games in London, the Russian Basketball Federation (RFB) said Monday. Twelve Russian sportsmen are to arrive in London on July 27, the opening day of t...
BEIJING, July 22 (Xinhua) -- The Ministry of Finance (MOF) said Sunday that 120 million yuan (19 million U.S. dollars) has been allocated to help the cities of Beijing and Tianjin and neighboring Hebei province to fight floods. The fund, allocated by...
BEIJING, July 22 (Xinhua) -- The heaviest rain in six decades in the Chinese capital on Saturday has left at least 10 people dead, Beijing authorities said Sunday. About 1.9 million people were affected by the downpour which also incurred nearly 10 b...
BEIJING, July 24 (Xinhuanet) -- To deal with the coming tropical cyclone Vicente, at 9:00 a.m. today, China Meteorological Administration (CMA) raised the emergency level from Ⅳ to Ⅲ. CMA urged the related internal bodies and related provincial m...
BEIJING, July 23 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese dairy company has been ordered to suspend production after its infant formula products were found to contain the carcinogen aflatoxin, the nation's quality watchdog said Monday. Excessive amounts of aflatoxin we...
HONG KONG, July 24 (Xinhua) -- As winds from Typhoon Vicente battered Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Observatory raised Tropical Cyclone warning to the highest level of Hurricane Signal No. 10 at 00:45 local time on Tuesday (16:45 GMT on Monday). Hurricane...
President Barack Obama on Sunday comforted the families of the 12 people killed and 58 wounded in Thursday's mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. In the city traumatized by a tragedy that has also shaken the nation, Mr. Obama visited...
The debt-ridden Spanish government and the country's troubled economy are the newest face of the European debt crisis. Stock markets across Asia, Europe and the United States plunged on Monday on fears that Madrid will need an international bailout a...
