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MADRID, March 11 (Xinhua) -- Four first half goals in a devastating 42-minute spell booked Barcelona a place in the last eight of the Champions League against Olympique Lyon on Wednesday night.
    The sides went into the return le...

LOS ANGELES, March 11 (Xinhua) -- A speeding Ferrari sports car split in half as it slammed into a streetlight pole in a wealthy suburb south of Los Angeles, killing the drives and injuring a passenger, authorities said Wednesday.
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MADRID, March 11 (Xinhua) -- Real Madrid defender Gabriel Heinze said on Wednesday that he and his teammates all shared the blame for their side's humiliating exit from the Champions League.
    Real Madrid were beaten 0-4 by Liver...

BEIJING, March 11 -- Victoria Beckham has reportedly told husband David she won't have another baby while he is living in Italy.
    Although David is keen to have a fourth child, Victoria has reportedly told him it is not feasible ...

BEIJING, March 11 -- Nicole Richie is unsure whether she will marry Joel Madden.
    The 27-year-old star - who has 14-month old daughter Harlow with Joel, and is currently expecting her second child with him - is content with her r...

BEIJING, March 11 -- Gavin Rossdale claims he and wife Gwen Stefani have baths together to to avoid wasting water and help save the environment.   

Gavin - who has sons Kingston, two, and six-month-old Zuma with his wife Gw...

BEIJING, March 11 (Xinhua) -- The National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the country's top advisory body, will conclude its annual session Thursday morning.
    Jia Qinglin, chairman o...

WASHINGTON, March 11 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday adopted a resolution on Tibet in gross interference in China's internal affairs.
    The resolution neglected the remarkable and widely recognized prog...

BEIJING, March 11 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday called on the armed forces to provide mighty support for national interests and social stability.

The People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the armed police shall energet...

LONDON, March 11 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of people took to the streets on Wednesday in Northern Ireland for mass rallies protesting the recent killing of two soldiers and a police officer.
    Silent vigils organized by trade unions ...

WASHINGTON, March 11 (Xinhua) -- The United States on Wednesday reiterated its accusation against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), saying "bellicose rhetoric" by Pyongyang can only increase tensions in the Korean Peninsula.
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BERLIN, March 11 (Xinhua) -- Germany was shocked by a tragic school shooting on Wednesday which killed 16 people, including the 17-year-old gunman apparently killing himself in a standoff with police.
    German Chancellor Angela M...

NEW YORK, March 11 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks ended modestly higher on Wednesday as technology companies rebounded.
    Stocks opened higher in the morning after Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the Obama administration will u...

WASHINGTON, March 11 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he was optimistic about the prospects for success at the G20 summit, urging other countries to take aggressive stimulus actions to revive their economies.
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WASHINGTON, March 11 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed a 410-billion-dollar spending bill to keep the government operating until fiscal year 2010 begins on Oct. 1.

But Obama also acknowledged that the bill was "i...

BEIJING, March 10 -- Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey said she will do a show about dating violence this week.
   She is sad over the fact that 19-year-old R&B star Chris Brown was allegedly assaulted Rihanna, a 21-year-old Barbadian s...

BEIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Lhasa is stable, and troops there are in normal state, said Qiangba Puncog, chairman of the Tibet regional government, on Tuesday.
    "I was told in a phone talk with Lhasa in the noon that the whole ...

BEIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Premier Wen Jiabao said here Tuesday China must deepen reforms and further open up as the country tackles economic woes.
    The policy of reform and opening up is the key choice that determines the fu...

BEIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Yi Gang, vice governor of China's central bank, said Tuesday that China still has room to cut interest rates, but such room is "quite limited".
    "China still has room to cut interest rates, but not ...

BAGHDAD, March 10 (Xinhua) -- At least 33 Iraqis were killed in a suicide attack in the west of Baghdad on Tuesday, raising concerns of the resurgence of violence in the war-torn country.
    The attack was the second deadly attack...

GAZA, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Amidst division and deep differences on standings, the two rival Palestinian movements, Fatah and Hamas, along with the rest of Palestinian factions, began a new round of dialogue Tuesday in Cairo.
    Fi...

WASHINGTON, March 10 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday laid out the details of his plan to overhaul the country's education system "from the cradle up through a career."
    "We have let our grades slip, our school...

NEW YORK, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Bernard Madoff, who was charged with Wall Street's biggest fraud, will plead guilty on Thursday to 11 criminal counts, his lawyer Ira Sorkin said on Tuesday.
    Sorkin's statement came as the Justice...

BUENOS AIRES, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Coach from Argentine soccer club Gimnasia de Jujuy, Omar Labruna, rejected on Monday to his charge, being the third coach that leaves its charge in the local closing tournament due to the bad results.
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VIENNA, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Two Austrian free-diving athletes Christian Redl and Jaromir Foukal have recently set new world records in under-ice free-diving without oxygen for 93 meters and diving without equipment for 50 meters respectively.
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The "Simple Life"' star befriended the "Car Wash" singer when they gave birth to their first children, Harlow and Max, last January.
    Nicole said: "Christina and I haven't known each other long but we met through mutual friends....

BEIJING, March.9 (Xinhuanet)-- Pop singer Britney Spears made a surprise visit to Miami Children's Hospital to meet with a group of sick children, hours before taking the stage Saturday.
    The 27-year-old Spears spent sometime wit...

BEIJING, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao called for the building of a Great Wall of stability in Tibet here on Monday, prior to the 50th anniversary of the foiling of an armed rebellion led by the Dalai Lama's supporters.
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BEIJING, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Senior Chinese leaders Li Keqiang, He Guoqiang and Zhou Yongkang have called for more efforts on improving people's well-being amid China's drive to stimulate economy.
 
Li Keqiang (front, L), member of the ...

BEIJING, March 9 (Xinhua) -- China will not revise the Labor Contract Law to compromise workers' rights as suggested by some people to help enterprises cope with the global financial turmoil, a legislator said here Monday.
    "The...