RIO DE JANEIRO, March 18 (Xinhua) -- Retired soccer star Ronaldo on Sunday revealed his aspirations of entering the world of politics and becoming the next president of the Brazilian Confederation of Soccer (CBF). With the sudden and unexpected resig...
MADRID, March 19 (Xinhua) -- Spanish BBVA Primera Liga side Villarreal on Monday sacked coach Jose Molina. Molina lost his job as a direct result of Villarreal's 1-0 defeat away to Levante on Sunday. The result left the side fourth from bottom of the...
MADRID, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Spanish ACB basketball side Unicaja Malaga had sacked coach Chus Mateo as a result of his team's disastrous run of recent results, local media reported Tuesday. He left the club after little more than a year in charge, af...
MADRID, Match 20 (Xinhua) -- Real Madrid are insisting that the leadership of the BBVA Primera Liga is still secure despite dropping two surprise points in the Santiago Bernabeu on Sunday night. Sunday's 1-1 draw at home to Malaga allowed FC Barcelon...
NAIROBI, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Song and dance rent the air as soon as the triumphant Africa Cross Country team touched down at the airport from Cape Town, South Africa, on Tuesday. Relatives, friends and Athletics Kenya (AK) officials who were present...
WASHINGTON, March 21 (Xinhua)-- The crisis in the euro zone has sent shocks to the United States through trade and financial channels, given the important cross-Atlantic economic linkage, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Wednesday. The...
Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney has registered a convincing win in Tuesday's Illinois primary, enlarging his lead in the race for the party's nomination. U.S. news services say Romney won about 55 percent of the vote to nearly 30 perc...
Greece's financial plight is easing a bit, with the government receiving the first segment of its new bailout and at the same time attracting investors for a bond offering. Greek officials said Tuesday the Athens government has received $10 billion f...
A relic of the Cold War era between the United States and Soviet Union could soon be an obstacle to improving trade between the U.S. and Russia, experts say. Jackson-Vanik amendment The relic in question is known as the Jackson-Vanik amendment, which...
BEIJING, March 19 (Xinhua) -- A computer security official said China has become the world's biggest victim of cyber attacks, with a report from a national computer monitoring center revealing that many domestic computers were controlled via overseas...
TEHRAN, March 18 (Xinhua) -- Iran's soccer legend Ali Daei has survived a serious car crash, local media reported on Sunday. Former captain of Iran's national soccer team was injured on his way from Isfahan to Tehran after his car overturned on Satur...
PARIS, March 18 (Xinhua) -- France's top league club Auxerre fired on Sunday the coach Laurent Fournier after failing to lead the team to advanced standings and improve its results. The decision (of firing Fournier) has been thought for a long time....
BEIJING, March 18 (Xinhua) -- Stephon Marbury snatched a game-high 30 points plus nine rebounds and eight assists as Beijing Ducks cruised past Shanxi Zhongyu 3-2 with a 110-98 home victory on Sunday, making it to the CBA finals for the first time. A...
NEW YORK, March 19 (Xinhua) -- China-owned Swedish automaker Volvo announced Monday an endorsement deal with NBA's new Asian-American superstar Jeremy Lin, marking one of the first major corporate contracts for the Knicks guard. Over the next two yea...
Greece's Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos has resigned, one day after being elected to lead the Socialist party PASOK in the run-up to elections. Venizelos announced his resignation Monday after meeting with Greek President Karolos Papoulias. Ven...
