As he has just had the operation, Yao Ming will not be able to immediately return to the national team after he returns to China in mid-June.

I have just renewed my contract with Monaco until 2007. I'm not concerned with the national team.

The national team comes before everything.

Our position on this question is clear; NATO must immediately halt the bombing of Yugoslavia as a necessary precondition for solving the Kosovo crisis. The bombing should stop before the Security Council discusses this issue.

While used for commercial operation, the slot machines pose great attraction, especially to teenagers who are relatively weak in self-control and more easily addicted to gambling machines.

I know we have not been able to dramatically improve the team because we don't have an owner. Bud Selig ought to be ashamed of himself for the way he has conducted this process.