HANGZHOU, China: Brazil shocked the top-ranked United States 4-0 yesterday in a dazzling display that set up a World Cup final with defending champion Germany.
NEW YORK: The New York Yankees clinched their 13th consecutive playoff appearance with a crushing 12-4 road victory against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays on Wednesday.
BORDEAUX, France: Ireland World Cup prop Simon Best was admitted to hospital here on Wednesday after suffering a loss of feeling down his right side.
SHANGHAI: While some teenagers might be talking about their favorite types of bicycles, Zhang Zhendong, 15, is driving his go-kart around a training track at full speed.
About 10 million American TV-viewers tuned in as more than 70,000 crazy fans packed Bill Walsh Field in San Francisco. And then there was me, an audience of one in an empty bar in Beijing.
A Chinese soldier knocked over the meal a young Japanese nurse brought to him. "What are you Japanese doing here, you're the losers!" he shouted.
Learning Chinese is like exploring a Raiders of the Lost Ark-type underground tomb. Fire lanterns hang on tunnel walls, and between each lighted area is frustrating darkness.
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