NEW YORK DaeSean Hamilton Jersey , Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- The West team beat the East 163-158 in Sunday's NBA All-Star Game at the Madison Square Garden to conclude the first All-Star weekend in the New York City in 17 years.
The NBA All-Star weekend came back to New York for the first time after 1998, and the attractions reached new high as tons of fans and media poured into the city. The NBA announced 215 countries and regions broadcasted the game globally.
Dozens of pop stars and singers in New York also attended the gala. The All-Star game, for the first time, staged performances during almost every techinical time-out with top singers like Ariana Grande, Nicky Monj, Ne-Yo etc..
Russell Westbrook from the Oklahoma City Thunders won the Most Valuable Player award of the All-Star Game with 41 points and five rebounds.
LeBron James was hot from the very beginning, shooting 6-out-of-9, including three 3-pointers, to score 15 points in the first quarter. But the East team trailed 47-36 as James Harden and Westbrook scored 13 and 12 apiece for the West.
Westbrook scored another 15 points in the second quarter, but it was the East had the better of the game during that period. John Wall, Kyle Korver and James kept the East in the game and trailed only by 83-82 at the end of the first half.
The game was so even as the scoreline was 122-122 after three quarters. Both sides exchanged 3-pointers and alley-oops to make it a high-scored and watchable game.
The fourth quarter was still a typical All-Star game as nobody picked up serious defence and players scored points at will. Westbrook's 3-pointer made it 158-149 with over two minutes to go.
The East kept pressure on the offence and closed it up to 161-158 on Pau Gasol's jumper with 2.8 seconds to go. After time-out, Westbrook buried to free-throws to ensure the victory for the West.
James led the East with 30 points while Korver added 21, who shot 7-out-of-12 from behind the arc. Harden had 29 points for the West in addition to eight assists and eight rebounds.
The first two brothers starting an All-Star Game, Pau and Marc Gasol, made their impacts in the game, as Pau had 12 rebounds and 10 points for the East and Marc contributed 10 rebounds and six points for the West.
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BUCHAREST, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- A bread factory exploded late Thursday and then burst into big flames in Brasov, central Romania, injuring at least five people, according to live coverage of a local television station.
The factory is located right by the city's Youth Stadium, where a football match was in progress. Thus, the powerful explosion, with images of flying bricks, broken glass, and other debris, was captured by cameras broadcasting the game.
The match continued despite the explosion.
Five wounded workers were taken to hospital, while several others were believed buried in the rubble, according to local DIGI 24 TV station.
Ciprian Sfreja from the local Inspectorate for Emergency Situations said one of the five wounded was in serious condition.
In turn, State Secretary of the Interior Ministry Raed Arafat said four of the injured had sustained burns to 10 percent, and one to 40 percent.
The explosion occurred at the mill of Vel Pitar bread factory where employees were working the night shift.
""There were 10 persons, four exited on their own, five were transported to hospital and there is one person who is in the factory who will be extracted, taken out from the rubble in the warehouse,"" Brasov Mayor George Scripcaru said.
Regarding the causes of the explosion, the mayor said it could have been an accumulation of flour dust and improper ventilation.
The incident came at a highly sensitive moment, just six days after a fire tragedy in the capital city killed 32 people and injured more than 180 others, leading to the government's resignation.
" Pope Francis speaks with Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi during their meeting in Naypyidaw on Tuesday. Photo: AFP
Pope Francis called for respect for rights and justice in a keenly-watched address in Myanmar on Tuesday, but refrained from any mention of the Rohingya or the alleged ethnic cleansing that has driven huge numbers of the Muslim minority from the country.
Sharing a stage with Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi in the capital Naypyidaw, he did not address the Rohingya crisis head-on but instead tip-toed around the unfolding humanitarian emergency.
Peace can only be achieved through "justice and a respect for human rights," he said in a broadly-framed speech that also called for "respect for each ethnic group and its identity."
The word "Rohingya" was entirely absent from his speech.
Rights groups had urged the pope to tackle Myanmar about its treatment of the minority during his four-day visit, but the local Catholic Church had cautioned him against straying into the Rohingya issue.
Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has been ostracized by a global rights community that once adored her.
She spoke of the challenges her country faces as it creeps out of the shadow of five decades of military rule, but also did not reference the Rohingya.
The government aimed to build the nation by "protecting rights, fostering tolerance, ensuring security for all," she said in a short speech, that gave a nod to global concern over the "situation in the Rakhine."
The pope's peace mission is studded with pitfalls in Myanmar, where a monk-led Buddhist nationalist movement has fostered widespread loathing for the Rohingya.
In recognition of those tensions his public speech was "very carefully worded," Myanmar-based political analyst Richard Horsey told AFP, speculating "he is likely to have been more forthright in private meetings with ders."
(Agencies)
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