"I am ready for Chelsea debut": Oscar

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Brazil international playmaker Oscar has declared himself ready to debut for Chelsea in the team's Premier League season-opener against Wigan on Sunday. Oscar joined his new teammates at Stamford Bridge on Thursday

调查显示 工作效率低下的罪魁祸首竟是智能手机!

Do you waste time at work? No, of course you don't. Never! You're very productive. 工作时你有没有虚度光阴？当然没有，你向来惜时如金！是的，你效率非常高。 And do you have a smartphone? Yes, you do, but that's not rel

研究显示 智能手机贬值速度竟快过汽车!

Mobile phones can lose half of their value a month after being released, meaning they depreciate faster than cars, according to research. 一项研究指出，手机在发布一个月后就会贬值一半，这意味着其贬值速度比汽车还快。

中国总理，澳大利亚总理每年举行一次会议

BEIJING, April 9 (Xinhua) -- Chinese premier and Australian prime minister will from now on meet annually, Li Keqiang and Julia Gillard announced on Tuesday, following their hour-long talk in Beijing's Great Hall of the People. China would like to wo

Buildings reglazed after meteorite strike in Russia

MOSCOW, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Most buildings damaged by Friday's meteorite fall in Russia's central Urals Region have been restored, and educational institutions will operate as usual on Monday. Xinhua reporters saw in the hardest-struck Chelyabinsk Re

Paralympic sports festival kicks off in Russian Far East

VLADIVOSTOK, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- First Far Eastern paralympic sports festival opens in Khabarovsk on December 18. The athletes from four regions of the Russia's Far East take part in it, RIA Novosti news agency reported. About 100 athletes came to th

Mladic Set to Boycott War Crimes Hearing

Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic plans to boycott a scheduled court appearance Monday at the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague. A lawyer for Mladic said Sunday that the former Bosnian Serb military commander is refusing to appear beca

Anger at Lockerbie bomber welcome

Relatives of those who died in the bombing of a US plane over Lockerbie voiced anger as the man convicted（定罪） of the attack was welcomed home in Libya. Crowds in Tripoli greeted Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, after he was freed from prison on compas

Chinese president to meet Obama at APEC summit

BEIJING, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao will meet with his U.S. counterpart, Barack Obama, at the 19th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Informal Leadership Meeting, said China's Assistant Foreign Minister, Wu Hailong, on Monda

NBA suspends Celtics guard Rondo for two games

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- Boston Celtics' star guard Rajon Rondo has been handed a two-game suspension by the association for hitting an official with a game ball, said the NBA team on Monday. According to the league's disciplinary chiefs, Rond

China tightens measures on reopening of suspended mines

BEIJING, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- China's workplace safety authorities on Saturday required tougher standards on reopening coal mines in production suspension in the wake of a deadly coal mine accident. Some coal mines were ordered to suspend production d

Argentine Riquelme to be inactive for 3 weeks

BUENOS AIRES, April 19 (Xinhua) -- Argentine soccer player Juan Roman Riquelme will be inactive for at least three weeks due to an injury in his abdomen. He was injured on Sunday during a match between Boca Juniors and Tigre for the 10th date of the

China province mulls law on radioactive pollution control

LANZHOU, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- Northwest China's Gansu Province, home to the country's earliest nuclear base, plans to draft a new law on radioactive pollution control this year, the local government said Saturday. Lawmakers in the landlocked province

One dead as road collapses in central China

CHANGSHA, July 5 (Xinhua) -- A section of a highway running near a major river in central China's Hunan Province caved in early Thursday, engulfing a passing vehicle and killing at least one person aboard. The cave-in, near the Poly International Pla

Iran wraps up missile drill, warns against military aggression on country

TEHRAN, July 4 (Xinhua) -- The Iranian Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) concluded the three-day missile drill on Wednesday with Iranian military officials warning against any military aggression on the country. On the third and last day of the

奥巴马正式提名肯尼迪女儿出任驻日本大使

WASHINGTON, July 24 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated Caroline Kennedy, the elder daughter of former president John F. Kennedy, as the ambassador to Japan. Kennedy was only six when her father was assassinated on Nov. 22,

希拉里成为美国首位女总统候选人

Hillary Clinton claimed the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, which would make her the first woman to represent a major party in the race for the White House. 希拉里克林顿星期二赢得民主党总统候选人提名所需代表人票数

南非纪念曼德拉逝世一周年

PRETORIA, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of South Africans on Friday commemorated the first anniversary of Nelson Mandela's death as the country's Acting President Cyril Ramaphosa urged the whole nation to keep Mandela's legacy alive. Ramaphosa made th

澳大利亚医护人员抵达利比里亚

MONROVIA, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- An Africa Union-backed 76-member Nigerian medical contingent, comprising nurses and doctors, has arrived in Liberia as part of the response to Ebola Virus Disease eradication in the country. The Nigerian medical team, whi

伊拉克进攻伊斯兰国重点镇

The Pentagon says Iraqi forces have driven Islamic State out of the western town of al-Baghdadi -- close to a military base where U.S. forces are training Iraqis. The Combined Joint Task Force said Friday Iraqi forces and tribal fighters from the Anb