RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- The Brasiliense soccer team announced on Thursday Andrade as their new head coach. Andrade led Flamengo to win the 2009 Brazilian Championship and is now seen as the key to keep Brasiliense from falling into the t...
NEW DELHI, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- A portion of a false ceiling at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, the main venue（犯罪地点） of the upcoming Commonwealth Games in the Indian capital, collapsed Wednesday, causing no injuries, reported the Indo-Asian...
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- As an iconic figure of the Disney（迪斯尼） empire, the 100-old cartoon character Tinker Bell has been remembered with a new star set on the famed Hollywood Walk of Fame in a ceremony held on Tuesday. The suppor...
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- The world-renowned（世界知名的） tenor Placido Domingo has renewed his contract with the Los Angeles Opera, and will continue to serve as the company's Eli and Edythe Broad General Director, the company said o...
BEIJING, Sept. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- Hollywood socialite Paris Hilton pleaded guilty（服罪） to cocaine possession and obstructing（妨碍） an officer in a Las Vegas court on Monday, according to media reports. Hilton, 29, admitted that cocaine fo...
BEIJING, Sept. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- Director Tsui Hark led the entire cast of his film, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, to attend its Asian premiere（首映式） in Beijing on Sunday, September 19, 2010. The film premiered at the 6...
NEW YORK, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- The 1st New York Chinese Film Festival kicked off on Saturday at Lincoln center（林肯中心） in New York and the Chinese movie Deep in the Clouds was showed after the opening ceremony（开幕式）. Before the ope...
BEIJING, Sept. 20 (Xinhuanet) -- Actor Randy Quaid and his wife Evi were arrested Saturday afternoon after they were reported living in the guest house of their old home illegally（非法的）, media reported Monday. The two were discovered by the...
BEIJING, Sept. 20 (Xinhuanet) -- Ben Affleck's latest work The Town took No. 1 this weekend at the North American box office with 23.8 million U.S. dollars, media reported Monday. The story, about a corner of Boston that produces more bank robbers pe...
NEW YORK, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks rose on Wednesday as the U.S. dollar strengthened against the Japanese yen while investors weighed two mixed reports in manufacturing（制造业,工业）. The U.S. dollar surged against the yen after the B...
CHICAGO, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- Gold futures（黄金期货） on the COMEX （纽约商品交易所） Division of the New York Mercantile Exchange ended moderately lower on Wednesday, as sharp range up move in gold on Tuesday prompted investors to ta...
TEHRAN, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- One of the three detained （被扣留的） U.S. hikers（徒步旅行者） left Iran on Tuesday evening after being released on bail of 500,000 U.S. dollars few hours earlier. Xinhua reporter was told in Tehran's Mehra...
CARACAS, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- The death toll（死亡人数） of a plane crash occurred in the southeast of Venezuela （委内瑞拉） rose to 17 with two of the 36 survivors（幸存者） having died of their severe injuries, the state-run Convi...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- U.S. poverty（贫困） rate climbed to 14.3 percent in 2009, the highest level since 1994, as households' incomes were squeezed by the deepest recession（衰退） since the 1930s and high unemployment（失业率 ）...
BERLIN, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Ukrainian Boxer Wladimir Klitschko defended his three heavyweight champion's belts against challenger Samuel Peter by technical knockout at the tenth round on Saturday night in Frankfurt. Klitschko dominated(控制) the h...
