Pistons spoil Arenas season debut to down Wizards
Kwame Brown blocked Gilbert Arenas last-seconds shot to mar the star guard's season debut and secured the Detroit Pistons a 98-96 victory over the Washington Wizards on Saturday. Arenas finished wit...
2009/04/09 Source: Global Times | Author: | Column: Basketball
Jordan makes Basketball Hall of Fame
Five-time NBA MVP Michael Jordan has made the Basketball Hall of Fame, museum officials announced on Monday. Arguably the greatest to ever play the game, Jordan was joined by NBA greats David Robins...
2009/04/09 Source: Global Times | Author: | Column: Basketball
Clinton urges strong U.N. action on N. Korean rocket launch
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged the U.N. Security Council on Monday to take a firm position on North Korea's weekend rocket launch suspected of being a long-range ballistic missile test. It's...
2009/04/09 Source: Global Times | Author: | Column: Americas
Lionel Messi scored twice
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2009/04/10 Source: Global Times | Author: | Column: Gallery
Chrysler optimistic about Fiat alliance
U.S. automaker Chrysler is optimistic about forming an alliance with Italy's Fiat within the time window set by the U.S. government, Chrysler Vice Chairman Jim Press said on Wednesday. At this point t...
2009/04/10 Source: Global Times | Author: | Column: Industries
Kazakhstan indefinitely postpones space program
Kazakhstan has indefinitely postponed a plan of sending its own cosmonaut to the International Space Station ISS for lack of funding, Talgat Musabayev, head of the National Space Agency, said on Thurs...
2009/04/10 Source: Global Times | Author: | Column: Green
Climate change to spur rapid shifts in wildfire hotspots
Climate change will bring about major shifts in worldwide fire patterns, and those changes are coming fast, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis led by researchers at the University of California...
2009/04/10 Source: Global Times | Author: | Column: Green
Experts: butterflies soaring higher due to climate change in Himalayas region
Climate change comes home to roost. A research, based on Apollo butterfly and Pika hare, the harbingers of global warming, conducted by the World Wildlife Fund WWF in Nepal's Langtang region of the Hi...
2009/04/10 Source: Global Times | Author: | Column: Green
Rural development significant amid financial crisis
BEIJING, April 11 Xinhua -- Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu has encouraged rural people to increase agricultural production and explore rural markets to soften the effects of the global economic slow...
2009/04/12 Source: Global Times | Author: | Column: Insight
Chinese entrepreneurs cautiously optimistic about China's economy: survey
BEIJING, April 11Xinhua -- Most Chinese entrepreneurs are cautiously optimistic about China's future economic trend, and almost half of them believe the country's economy would revive before the end o...
2009/04/12 Source: Global Times | Author: | Column: Insight
