BEIJING, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- The following are the central parity rates of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, against 24 major currencies announced Tuesday by the China Foreign Exchange Trade System: Currency Unit Central parity rate in yuan...

Veronika Kudermetova has been rewarded for her form this season Russian tennis player Veronika Kudermetova has broken into the world's top ten for the first time in her ca...

MEXICO CITY - Two people died on Sunday from destruction caused by Tropical Storm Roslyn after it made landfall along Mexico's Pacific Coast as a powerful hurricane before weakening farther inland, authorities said.A 74-year-old man was killed in the...

Guadalajara [Mexico], October 24 (ANI): Jessica Pegula clinched the first WTA 1000 title of her career on Sunday, as the No.3 seed from the United States overpowered No.4 seed Maria Sakkari of Greece 6-2, 6-3 in the Guadalajara Open Akron final. In a...

by F1 correspondent Michael Butterworth BEIJING, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- Max Verstappen equalled Formula 1's record of 13 Grand Prix victories in a single season, passing Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton to win the United States Grand Prix and ensuring...

MEXICO CITY, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- Hurricane Roslyn has made landfall on Mexico's Pacific coast as it turns Category 3, although it is expected to weaken soon, the National Water Commission reported Sunday. "Although it is expected that during its disp...

BEIJING, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- The following are the central parity rates of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, against 24 major currencies announced on Monday by the China Foreign Exchange Trade System: Currency Unit Central parity rate in yu...

No. 3 seed Jessica Pegula defeated No. 4 seed Maria Sakkari of Greece 6-2, 6-3 in 70 minutes to win her first WTA 1000 title at the Guadalajara (Mexico) Open Akron on Sunday. Pegula will rise to No. 3 in the WTA rankings on Monday after the dominant...

Editor's note: Here is a look at immigration-related news around the U.S. this week. Questions? Tips? Comments? Email the VOA immigration team: ImmigrationUnit@voanews.com.Canadian High Court Weighs Immigration Agreement With USCanada's highest court...

MEXICO CITY - Hurricane Roslyn slammed into a sparsely populated stretch of Mexico's Pacific coast between the resorts of Puerto Vallarta and Mazatlan Sunday morning and quickly moved inland.By Sunday morning, Roslyn had winds of 150 kph, down from i...

MEXICO CITY - Hurricane Roslyn plowed over the Pacific as a powerful Category 4 storm just offshore from the Mexican resort of Puerto Vallarta while heading for a Sunday landfall a little to the north.The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Roslyn ha...

Saturday's second semifinal between fourth-seeded Maria Sakkari of Greece and the Czech Republic's Marie Bouzkova was suspended due to rain, with Sakkari up one set at the Guadalajara (Mexico) Open Akron. The pair will finish their semifinal Sunday ...

San Diego, California - A surge in migration from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua in September brought the number of illegal crossings to the highest level ever recorded in a fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.The year-end num...

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- Brunei is categorized as the second lowest disaster risk country in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the World Risk Index 2022 report, a local newspaper said on Saturday. According to the ...

Veronika Kudermetova will not contest the singles event at the WTA Finals Veronika Kudermetova's hopes of sealing a place in the singles tournament at the season-ending WT...

Fourth-seeded Maria Sakkari of Greece beat eighth-seeded Veronika Kudermetova of Russia on Friday in a match that had more at stake than just a spot in the semifinals of the Guadalajara (Mexico) Open Akron. The 6-1, 5-7, 6-4 victory gives Sakkari th...

Donald Trump will participate in the pro-am ahead of the season-ending LIV Golf Team Championship next week at Trump National Doral in Miami, the Palm Beach (Fla.) Post reported on Friday. The former president also played in the pro-am before the LI...

United Nations - The U.N. Security Council has unanimously imposed its first sanctions on Haiti in five years, targeting those fueling gang violence and worsening the economic, security and humanitarian situation in the Caribbean Island nation."We ar...

Daria Kasatkina's place at the WTA Finals in Fort Worth has been confirmed Russian women's tennis number one Daria Kasatkina has been guaranteed a place at the big-money W...

Daria Kasatkina got a big win before taking the court Thursday night at the Guadalajara (Mexico) Open Akron. The seventh-seeded Russian was confirmed as having clinched a berth in next week's WTA Finals in Fort Worth, Texas. Kasatkina, who is ranke...

BEIJING, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- The following are the central parity rates of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, against 24 major currencies announced on Friday by the China Foreign Exchange Trade System: Currency Unit Central parity rate in yu...

It was Yuri Knorozov who found the key to reading the texts of this ancient civilization. And only 40 years after his epochal discovery did he, for the first time, manage to visit Mexico.Everyone considered the quiet introvert to be an eccentric. He ...

MEXICO CITY, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- Haret Ortega and Leonardo Fernandez struck first-half goals as Toluca edged toward a berth in the Liga MX final with a 2-1 home win over Club America in their semifinal first leg on Wednesday. Ortega opened the scorin...

Top-seeded Paula Badosa of Spain and second-seeded Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus were both eliminated from the Guadalajara (Mexico) Open Akron on Wednesday, in very different circumstances. Badosa was forced to retire due to illness after losing the fi...

BEIJING, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- The following are the central parity rates of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, against 24 major currencies announced on Thursday by the China Foreign Exchange Trade System: Currency Unit Central parity rate in ...

ABU DHABI, 18th October, 2022 (WAM) -- The General Secretariat of the Khalifa International Award for Date Palm and Agricultural Innovation sig...

By: Khoder Nashar & Hatem Hussein SHARJAH, 29th September, 2022 (WAM) -- Felipe Calderon, former President of Mexico, said that the UAE is o...

ABU DHABI, 16th September, 2022 (WAM) -- President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has sent a message of congratulations to Pr...

ABU DHABI, 16th September, 2022 (WAM) -- Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri, Minister of Climate Change and the Environment, last night attended a ...