WARSAW, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Poland skipper Jakub Blaszczykowski blast home from the box edge to drag the co-hosts back from the bliss, tying 1-1 with Russia in the second round of the Euro 2012 Group A here on Tuesday. Blaszczykowski, the playmaker f...
LONDON, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Danny Boyle, the artistic director of the London Olympic Games opening ceremony, said on Tuesday that the July 27 ceremony will feature British countryside. He said that the opening scene of the ceremony will be called Gre...
SHENGYANG, Liaoning Province, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Four different courts in northeast China's Liaoning Province are set to hand down verdicts for former Chinese soccer bosses and national team players on Wednesday. A court in Dandong is expected to an...
BEIJING, June 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese State Councilor Liu Yandong on Wednesday urged promoting innovation and taking innovation as a driving force for the country's development. Liu made the remarks during a report she delivered at the biennial confer...
The World Health Organization, upgrading a previous warning, said June 12 that diesel exhaust causes cancer and called for tighter emissions standards, comparing the risk of exhaust to second-hand cigarette smoke. Tuesdays announcement comes after in...
THE PENTAGON - U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says he is very concerned about the possibility of a major cyber attack that he says could paralyze U.S. government and financial systems. The warning came as Panetta cautioned U.S. lawmakers against...
TIELING, Liaoning Province, June 13 (Xinhua) -- The former Chinese soccer chief Nan Yong was sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison for taking bribes. The former director of the Chinese Football Administrative Center was charged with 17 counts of...
SHENGYANG, Liaoning Province, June 12 (Xinhua) -- The former Chinese soccer bosses who were accused of taking bribes face verdicts on Wednesday morning. A court in Dandong, Liaoning, is expected to announce a verdict against Nan Yong, the former dire...
HAVANA, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Cuban boxing legend Teofilo Stevenson was buried with honors Tuesday at Havana's Christopher Columbus Cemetery. The three-time Olympic and World amateur boxing champion died suddenly Monday at the age of 60 from a heart at...
BEIJING, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Police have busted more than 130,000 cases of economic crime and dealt with 60,000-plus suspects since a crackdown on economic crime began three months ago. A total of 180,000 cases involving some 23 billion yuan (3.6 bil...
ABOARD XIANGYANGHONG 09, June 12 (Xinhua) -- China's manned deep-sea submersible, Jiaolong, will attempt a new dive as part of a bid to go down 7,000 meters into the Mariana Trench on the morning of June 14, according to mission headquarters. If wate...
BEIJING, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Pressure from trade frictions has continued to increase this year for Chinese enterprises, while further challenges are expected in the future, a commerce official said. Li Chenggang, head of the Department of Treaty and...
WASHINGTON - Archer Brady Ellison of the United States was only 19 when he competed in his first Olympics four years ago in Beijing. Now 23, he is the world's top-ranked male recurve archer and is a favorite for the mens individual gold medal at the...
MADRID, June 12 (Xinhua) -- The international ratings agency Fitch on Tuesday cut the ratings of 18 Spanish banks. The institutions affected by today's rating actions are purely domestic banks. Thus, their revenue generation capacity, risk profile, f...
爱情，当然是要享受一点浪漫。用实用而浪漫的英语给对方发个爱情短信，不失是一件很甜蜜的事情。 I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you。 我爱你，不是因为你是一...
