The New Zealand women's hockey team had an impressive 3-0 win over Spain last night (NZT) at the four-nations tournament in Beijing. In 32degC and smoggy conditions, the Black Sticks opened the scoring in the sixth minute when Lizzy Igasan converted a penalty corner.
After decades of denials, the Chinese have acknowledged burying an American prisoner of war in China, telling the U.S. that a teenage soldier captured in the Korean War died a week after he "became mentally ill," according to documents provided to The Associated Press.
BEIJING (AFP)--China's millions of car owners woke up Friday to sharply higher energy prices, with widespread complaints about the cost of living -- and not a few despairing over prospects of making ends meet.
Hundreds of security personnel lined the streets to head off any disruption as the Olympic torch relay resumed Wednesday in western China's restive Muslim region of Xinjiang. Black-gloved security agents jogged alongside the torch as it wound through the streets of Kashgar, an ancient Silk Road city near the borders with Central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Foreign journalists were not
The house music is thumping. Cosmos are flowing. Beautiful people are mingling at a sleek, icy-blue bar, standing on tile floors inscribed with quotes from explorer Marco Polo. It's a typical Saturday night at China Grill -- in Fort Lauderdale, the latest destination in the hip restaurant dynasty.
KASHGAR, China - Security was tight as the Olympic torch wound its way through a predominantly Muslim city in far western China on Wednesday. Shops and roads were closed as black-gloved security agents jogged alongside the flame during the relay through the streets of Kashgar.
The now notorious Putting the Chin in China t-shirts adorned by Ben Askren fans at the Olympic Trials are available for sale through www.wrestling-central.com.
They're lurking out there, beyond the Point Loma kelp beds, waiting. Well, maybe just floating. Purple-striped jellyfish are a sign of summer, as regular a visitor to San Diego as tourists from Iowa. In recent years, though, local sightings have risen dramatically, and exotic jellyfish species such as the black sea nettle have appeared in greater numbers.