LOS ANGELES, March 18 (Xinhua) -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. reported a 40.2-million-U.S.-dollar fourth quarter earnings in 2012 on Monday, a remarkable feat which was buoyed up by the screening of two popular movies of Skyfall and The Hobbit: An Unexp...
MADRID, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- FC Barcelona had few problems in booking their place in the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey on Thursday night. Following a 2-0 first leg win away to Cordoba the reigning Cup holders were always favorites to progress to...
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...
TOKYO, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Japan's economy shrank(缩小) an annualized real 1.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010, marking the first contraction in five quarters, the Cabinet Office said Monday. The October-December period figure, measured by gr...
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...
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本单元是关于季决赛的对话 Tim: England are out! We lost on penalties again! Alice: I'm gutted! I blame Rooney. Tim: He didn't do nuffink! Alice: How can you say that? We all saw what he did. The ref had to send him off. Tim: I still say we was robbed...