FLORENCE, Italy, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- Giampaolo Pazzini came off the bench to score a late goal and gave Italy a 1-0 win over Slovenia and qualification for Euro 2012 on Tuesday. The hosts could not convert their numerous chances into goals until the...
BEIJING, Sept. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- Italian tenor Salvatore Licitra, known as new Pavarotti in Italy for his powerful operatic voice, died Monday at the age of 43 after a scooter accident in Sicily. Licitra had been in a coma since the Aug. 27 accident i...
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- Eddie Murphy has been named to host the 84th Academy Awards ceremony to be held on Feb. 26, 2012, turning a widely-publicised gossip into reality. According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the 50-y...
CANBERRA, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- A rare virus that can be contracted by humans has killed a large number of Victorian pigeons after being detected in the Australian state for the first time, Agriculture Department confirmed on Tuesday. According to the...
Beijing, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- A sperm donation scandal disclosed recently has aroused growing concern in the United States. According to the New York Times' report, Ryan Kramer, the son of a donor, found that he has more than 150 half-siblings - they...
BEIJING, Sept. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- A short-term memory loss may suggest the Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study made by Spanish researchers. The finding was published on Monday, in Archives of General Psychiatry, an American Medical Associatio...
BEIJING, Sept. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- NASA will launch on Thursday twin lunar orbiters built to map the gravity of Earth's moon in unprecedented detail, media reported Tuesday. The twin lunar probes, Graili-A and Graili-B, will blast off from Florida's Cap...
BEIJING, Sept. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- San Francisco police said they had helped Apple search for a lost item, following reports saying that a prototype of Apple's yet-to-be-released iPhone 5 had gone missing in July. Last week, technology news website CNET...
BEIJING, Sept. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- The amount of space junks floating in Earth's orbit has reached a critical level, warned scientists. The future space missions may become too dangerous to fly for a risk of colliding with space junks, said a report rel...
BEIJING, Sept. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- Scientists from Tufts University of the U.S. have created the world's smallest electrical motor in a single molecule. The finding was published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology on Monday. In the research, scientist...
NEW YORK, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- Eleventh seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga rallied to beat Mardy Fish, the eighth-seeded American 6-4, 6-7 (5), 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 on Monday, reaching US Open quarterfinals for the first time. Fish was trying to make it past the fourth...
NEW YORK, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- US powerful Serena Williams served nine aces to dispatch former world No. 1 Ana Ivanovic in straight sets among gusty wind, advancing into the quarterfinal of US Open on Monday. Williams, a 13-time major champion and thr...
KIEV, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- The Kiev Olympic stadium, which will host the final match of Euro 2012 Soccer Championship, will be completed in time, and the stadium is expected to open on Oct. 8, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister and Infrastructure Ministe...
JINAN, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- China beat Thailand 2-0 in a must-win game to keep hope of advancing, while world champions Japan edged Australia 1-0 to top the table at the Asian Qualifying Tournament for the 2012 London Olympics women's soccer event her...
The United Nations says more than half of Somalia's population, four million people, is now in crisis as famine spreads, and 750,000 are at risk of death. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Somalia reported Monday that fa...
