BEIJING, June 20 (Xinhuanet) -- American Cancer Society discloses that higher education appears to be a game changer when it comes to cancer, according to foreign media reports on Sunday. The research indicates that the gap is widening in cancer deat...
SAN FRANCISCO, June 20 (Xinhua) -- Facebook will launch new music service with a music tab and music dashboard in partnership with other online music services at its f8 annual developer conference in August, U.S. media reported on Monday. According t...
With food demand leaping in China and India, Russia has the potential to emerge as a new world food power. But first, Russian farmers need to overcome years of decline. One hundred years ago, Czarist Russia was the breadbasket of Europe, and the Amer...
In coming weeks, the U.S. Congress is widely expected to raise the federal governments debt ceiling, thereby allowing it to borrow additional funds and service Americas $14 trillion national debt. Congress has never failed to raise the borrowing limi...
For the first time in its modern history, Turkey has resisted a serious global economic crisis, and also has decoupled itself from the rest of Europe by rebounding strongly in 2010. Although Turkey's economy is booming, however, the new government ha...
WASHINGTON, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland won the 111st US Open at the Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland, on Sunday. The 22-year-old won the title with a tournament record 16-under-par total of 268, carding a fin...
CHANGZHI, China, June 19 (Xinhua) -- China beat Australia 80-72 on Sunday night and took the title of the four-nation women's basketball tournament with an unbeaten record. Earlier on Sunday Brazil defeated New Zealand 73-62 and ranked second when Cl...
SAN JOSE, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Jermaine Jones and Clint Dempsey scored as the United States moved into the Gold Cup semifinals with a 2-0 win over Jamaica in the quarterfinals on Sunday. The host team will meet the winner of the match later Sunday bet...
BERLIN, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Schalke left back Christian Pander, 27, joined league rival Hannover until 2012 on a free transfer fee, Hannover sports director Joerg Schmadtke said on Sunday. Christian Pander is a talented defender who made in seven-yea...
BEIJING, June 20 (Xinhuanet) -- More Chinese cities have seen month-on-month declines in the prices of both new and secondhand homes, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Saturday. The NBS said in a statement on its website that mo...
Eurozone finance ministers are again telling Greece that the next vital loan installment is only payable when the Greek parliament passes economic reforms. The ministers ended their meeting early Monday in Luxembourg with no final agreement on the ne...
Spaniards angered about the economic situation have been staging regular protests in Madrid since May 15. Thousands of Spaniards have marched in Madrid to protest high unemployment and the government's handling of an economic crisis. They converged o...
BERLIN, June 17 (Xinhua) -- Schalke midfielder Lukas Schmitz joined league rivals Bremen on a four-year contract, Bremen manager Klaus Allofs confirmed on Friday. We have tried hard in recent weeks to sign him and we are glad that we could realize th...
MADRID, June 17 (Xinhua) -- Spanish guard Ricky Rubio will play for the Minnesota Timberwolves in the NBA next season, the Barcelona basketball club announced on Friday. The 20-year-old Rubio, who made his Spanish league debut at the age of 14, was d...
SHENZHEN, June 18 (Xinhua) -- China established its first national gene bank on Friday in south China's city of Shenzhen with the support of the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), officials said. With the establishment of the National Gene Bank in She...
