BERLIN, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Germany captain Michael Ballack will miss next month's Euro 2012 qualifiers against Turkey and Kazakhstan because of a fractured（断裂） his left knee cap. The 33-year-old Bayer Leverkusen midfielder limped out of Sat...
ISTANBUL, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- The United States defeated Turkey（土耳其） 81-64 in Sunday's final of the 2010 World Basketball Championships here. The U.S. took the lead early in the first quarter and held through for the entir match. Kevin Dur...
JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- The Sharks rugby（英式橄榄球） team from Durban remained eight points clear with 41 points at the top of the log after the 10th week of South Africa' s Currie Cup rugby competition on Sunday. Their nearest ri...
NEW YORK, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Open men's singles final and women's doubles final have to be postponed（延期） to Monday due to the drizzle（毛毛雨） starting on Saturday's afternoon in Flushing Meadows（草地 ）. Men's singles f...
EW YORK, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. stocks extended losses for the fourth straight day on Friday after mixed reports showed U. S. retail sales gained less than expected while consumer（消费者，顾客） sentiment climbed higher. According to t...
UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-general Ban Ki- moon will travel to Pakistan（巴基斯坦） to visit the country's flood-ravaged areas on Saturday, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said here on Friday. The spokesman noted, however, tha...
TEHRAN, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran ( AEOI（原子能组织)) Ali Akbar Salehi confirmed on Friday next week's launch of his country's first nuclear power plant. We are getting ready to transfer(转机) fuel of Bus...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- A major 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck southwest of U.S. territory Guam on Saturday local time, the United States Geological Survey reported on its website. The quake occurred at 7:19 a.m. on Saturday local time (2119...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday signed a bill allocating 600 million dollars to help enhance border security in the southwestern states bordering Mexico. Obama signed the bill in the Oval Office in the presence o...
Beijing, August 14 (Xinhuanet) -- The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC)（国家发改委） on Friday approved a batch of inter-city rail transit networks, spanning more than 2,000 kilometers, to accelerate（加速） regional integ...
BERLIN, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- German economy （经济） has seen a rapid recovery in the second quarter, as the gross domestic product (GDP) （国内生成总值） registered a growth of 2.2 percent compared with the first quarter, a record in the...
TEHRAN, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Iran said on Sunday it will not stop its nuclear fuel enrichment（丰富,改进） activities although Russia would provide it with the nuclear fuel needed to run its Bushehr nuclear power plant. Head of Iran's Majlis ( P...
GAZA, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- A committee（委员会） of independent experts, tasked by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), started on Sunday meetings and tours in the Gaza Strip to assess postwar investigations（调查） by concerning parties to t...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Capturing or killing al-Qaida mastermind Osama bin Laden（奥萨马本拉登） is still a priority for the United States, David Petraeus, the general who commands all U.S. forces in Afghanistan, was quoted as saying...
BEIJING, Aug. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- More than 80 sports collectors' items were auctioned(拍卖) off in Beijing Sunday on the occasion of the two-year anniversary of the 2008 Olympic Games, with the highest price going to the Berlin Olympic torch. The to...
