The U.S. space shuttle Discovery lifted off Sunday from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The following is a brief introduction to Discovery's STS-119 mission. Discovery will deliver the International Space Station's (ISS) fourth an...
Dutch premier league leaders AZ Alkmaar scored a narrow 1-0 victory away at Utrecht on Sunday to move a step closer to their first league title in 28 years. Against 8th-ranked Utrecht, AZ was dominant from start to finish, bu...
Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said on Sunday he believes a U.S. anti-missile radar base will be built on Czech soil, but that the project may be delayed. Topolanek said he did not expect U.S. President Barack Obama, du...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday that Russian strategic planes can use a base in Venezuelan territory. "I told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that whenever Russian strategic planes need to stop in Venezuela...
Observers from the Organization of American States (OAS) recognized on Sunday that the presidential elections in El Salvador were being held orderly. The OAS endorsed the 461 voting centers in all the country, but it sa...
Bolivian President Evo Morales on Sunday gave indigenous Guarani people title deeds of 38,000 hectares of land that were property of landholders from Alto Parapeti, Santa Cruz department. Morales said it was the beginning of...
Garment, the foremost pillar industry of Cambodia, is expected to recover from the attack of the global financial crisis in the second quarter of this year, the Chinese-language newspaper the Jian Hua Daily reported on Monday. &nbs...
A 1.2 billion yuan (175 million U.S. dollars) synchrotron radiation project in east China's Shanghai will be completed and put into use in late April, researchers said Sunday. The Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSR...
