PARIS, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- Roger Federer defeated Tomas Berdych 6-4, 6-3 on Saturday to reach the Paris Masters final for the first time in his career. The 30-year-old Swiss holder of 16 Grand Slam titles will play on Sunday the winner between 2008 t...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- Home team Santos beat Fluminense 2-1 from the eighth round of the 2011 Brazilian Championshipon Wednesday. The win is Santos' second-straight as the team looks to recover after a slow start in the competition. Befo...
England and Fabio Capellos 100% record 百战不败的记录 came to an end on Saturday with a 1-0 defeat to the Ukraine in Dnipropetrovsk. Since England have already qualified for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the result was academic 形式上的...
The Sri Lanka branch of the global civic group, Transparency International, is lamenting the lack of progress in fighting corruption there following the military's victory in the 25-year-civil war. Steve Herman | New Delhi 15 December 2009 Sri Lankan...
Defeat I will never consider defeat and I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools. I will...
In Angola, the opposition UNITA party has accepted defeat in the country's legislative elections, after the electoral commission said that - with nearly 80 percent of the votes counted - the ruling MPLA party was leading with more than 80 percent an...
Cuba defeated the United States Olympic baseball team Friday night, 10-2, to reach the gold medal match at the Beijing Summer Games. VOA Sports Editor Parke Brewer was at the contest at the Wukesong Sports Center and has a report. For the Chinese fa...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 04 February 2008 The Sri Lankan government signaled its determination to defeat the Tamil Tiger rebels, as the country observed the 60th anniversary of its independence from Britain with a display of military might. Anjan...
By Edward Yeranian Beirut 06 August 2007 Former Lebanese President Amin Gemayel waves to supporters after voting in the town of Bikfaya, Lebanon, 05 Aug 2007 Former Lebanese President Amin Gemayel has gone down to defeat in a parliament by-election t...
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 06 June 2007 Egyptian airplanes are seen destroyed on the runway after being bombed by Israeli warplanes during the Six Day War, June 1967 As countries throughout the Middle East mark the 40th anniversary of the 1967 Arab-...
