LONDON, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) -- The London Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) unveiled the designs of the Games Maker uniform on Tuesday. The Games Maker uniform, designed by LOCOG in association with London 2012's official...
LONDON, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) -- An injury from last week's Premier League match against Swansea kept Wayne Rooney out of Manchester United's Champions League match against Benfica at home on Tuesday. United manager Sir Alex Ferguson said Rooney had picke...
BERLIN, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) -- Bundesliga record champions Bayern Munich wrapped up last 16 berth at UEFA Champions League owing to a dominant 3-1 performance at outsold Allianz Arena against Villarreal on Tuesday. The Bavarians astonished Villarreal wi...
LONDON, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) -- French top seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga outplayed American Mardy Fish in straight sets on Tuesday to grab his first win at this year's ATP World Tour Finals. The world No. 6 Frenchman squandered his chances in his last serve in...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) -- Long-term coffee consumption may be associated with a reduced risk for endometrial cancer, according to a study published online Tuesday in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers Prevention, a journal of the American Associat...
BEIJING, Nov. 22 (Xinhuanet) -- Global AIDS deaths and new HIV infections have each dropped 21 percent since the peak of the AIDS pandemic in 1997, according to a UN report released Monday. One major factor responsible for the result is that life-sav...
Egypt's military rulers have agreed to form a new government and promise to transfer power to a civilian body by July. Politicians say the agreement was made during a crisis meeting on Tuesday as tens of thousands of Egyptians protested in the street...
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has promised to allow jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko to receive medical attention outside of the Kyiv prison, where she is currently being held. At a news conference Tuesday, Mr. Yanukovych said he...
Greece and Spain faced new pressure Tuesday from the European debt crisis. The European Union bluntly told the Athens government it would not receive its next $11 billion installment from last year's bailout unless its fractious political leaders sig...
LONDON, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- British top player Andy Murray suffered a bitter defeat at home as he was beaten by David Ferrer in straight sets in his first match and considered of pulling out of the ATP World Tour Finals on Monday. Murray, the world N...
KINGSTON, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- Jamaican sprinter Steve Mullings received a life ban by the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) on Monday. The decision came four days after Mullings, 29, was found guilty of taking the masking agent furosimide. He fi...
JAKARTA, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) -- Two fans died in a stampede at the Southeast Asian Games football final in Jakarta, a report said on Tuesday. The two men, wearing Indonesian red-and-white football team T- shirts were taken to hospital at 8:30 p.m., arou...
BEIJING, Nov. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- Oscar winners Tim Robbins and Adrien Brody will join the cast of Chinese director Feng Xiaogang's famine-themed epic film 1942, according to Variety.com. The production company responsible for the project, Huayi Brothe...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- The use of acupuncture for children is common and acupuncture is generally safe for children when performed by appropriately trained practitioners, Canadian researchers reported Monday in online journal Pediatrics. Res...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- The launch of the Mars Science Laboratory, which contains the car-sized Curiosity rover, has been delayed by a day to Nov. 26, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced Monday. The delay w...
