Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the credit ratings of 12 British banks over concerns that the government will not provide adequate support to the institutions if they become financially troubled. The credit rating firm said Friday that the d...
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny says Ireland is aiming to be the first to exit its international bailout and resume financing its government operations on its own. Kenny told an international economic forum Friday in Dublin that Ireland is recovering...
BEIJING, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- Chinese tennis star Li Na on Thursday became the fifth singles player to qualify for the prestigious TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships which would be held in Istanbul, Turkey on October 25-30, 2011, becoming the first Chin...
KIEV, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- Ukrainian heavyweight boxer Vladimir Klitchko will defend his WBA, IBF and WBO titles against French Jean-Marc Mormeck in Germany on Dec. 10, the press-service of Klitchko's brothers announced on Thursday on its official webs...
BEIJING, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- Former champion Maria Kirilenko looked to be at about her peak of her hardcourt game at the prestigious China Open, making it to the quarterfinals after beating Tamira Paszek of Austria in straight sets on Thursday. The 20...
THE HAGUE, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- Arjen Robben has left the Dutch training camp in Noordwijk on Thursday. The Bayern Munich forward is suffering from a pubic bone injury and medical examination made clear on Wednesday he will miss the forthcoming Euro 20...
BEIJING, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- Former world number one Ana Ivanovic of Serbia will return to Bali in November to defend her Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions title after receiving the first wild card for the event on Thursday. Last year Ivanovic...
BEIJING, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- World number one Caroline Wozniacki and third seed Vera Zvonareva on Tuesday both sailed through to the third round at the China Open, but followed different paths. Wozniacki needed only one hour and 20 minutes to outclass...
LONDON, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- London 2012 celebrated another milestone on the Olympic Park as the track in the Olympic Stadium was unveiled on Monday. World record holder and Paralympic gold medallist Dan Greaves, British long jump record holder Chris T...
VANCOUVER, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- When the Vancouver International Film Festival kicked off Thursday night, Mayor Gregor Robertson gave a special greeting in Mandarin to a delegation of visiting Chinese film producers. Robertson, a distant relative of...
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- Google announced Wednesday that Google Earth, the tech giant's virtual globe, map and geographical information program, has been downloaded more than one billion times since it was first introduced in 2005. According...
BEIJING, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- China's first space lab module were in good condition and all tests went on smoothly during the past week, according to a statement issued by the country's space project authorities Thursday. The unmanned module, Tiangong-...
When Steve Jobs died Wednesday, the business world lost a marketing genius - one of the world's most creative and successful innovators. Jobs, who is credited with rescuing the company he founded and turning it into one of the world's most valuable c...
The Swedish Academy awarded one of Swedens most famous living poets, Tomas Transtr?mer, the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday - making him the first Swede in nearly 40 years to win the award. The Nobel prize in literature for 2011 is awarde...
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has warned NATO countries the U.S. may not be able to sustain operations like those in Libya and Afghanistan as it tries to deal with its own budget problems. Panetta arrived in Brussels to attend his first NATO mi...
