Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang has gone under the knife after a serious Achilles tendon tear put him out of the London Olympics. A senior Chinese sports official says the operation was successful, and his doctor is satisfied. Heartbreak for the former 110...
Hundreds of London taxi drivers have continued protests over their exclusion from the special Olympics Games Lanes reserved for Olympic athletes and officials. The drivers said they should have the right to access the VIP lanes and also say restricti...
Chinese athletes have shown great competitiveness since the country sent out its delegation to the games in 1984, reaping in gold, silver and bronze. But they have also been criticised for being too narrow sighted, with some saying the only goal for...
Local authorities on China's Hainan Island have upgraded wind emergency response levels from four to three as Tropical storm Vicente has grown into a typhoon. The newly formed typhoon is currently approaching the island from the Northeast. The Qiongz...
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法国要捍卫男子手球金牌 One of the many Olympic teams looking to repeat as champion is the French men's handball squad. The players tasted Olympic glory four years ago in Beijing, and have continued their winning ways. But this tournament c...
In the coming months, there are all kinds of cultural activities going on around China. It really looks like Chinese people will be spoilt for choice this summer. Premiere of Meet in Pyongyang The first film co-produced by China and the Democratic Pe...
The number of tourists visiting Egypt plunged by a third in 2011 according to recently revealed data from the countrys state statistics body. The report stated that Tourist numbers fell to almost 10 million last year, from 14.7 million in 2010. CCTVs...
Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal is out of this years Olympic Games. He declared his exit with an undisclosed injury on Thursday, leaving the London mens tennis competition without one of its leading stars and robbing Spain of its flag bearer for the...
Chinas rising swimming star Sun Yang is getting-in his final practice laps at the teams UK base at the University of Bath. The 20-year-old has spent the last four years building toward a star-making role at these Olympic Games. He shook up the swimmi...
Mohamed Bin Hammam successfully appealed his lifetime ban from football. The former FIFA presidential candidate had the ruling overturned at a Court of Arbitration for Sport hearing in Lausanne, Switzerland on Thursday. The CAS found that there was i...
Weather forecasters predict the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics will not be disrupted by rain. British people are famous for grumbling about the weather, but most could be forgiven a moan after the recent onslaught of near continuous rai...
The Russian Soyuz spacecraft has docked with the International Space Station after a flawless rendezvous. It came two days after the spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The spacecraft brought a Russian cosmonaut, a NASA as...
China's deep-sea submersible has returned to Qingdao port in East China after reaching a depth of 7,062 meters in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean late last month. It was a significant step for China's deep-water technology. During the...
