President-elect Joe Biden named his choices for several top economic positions on Monday, including former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen as nominee for Treasury Secretary and three other women, setting the stage for a more diverse White House, (...)
Jesus Herrada rode to victory on stage six of the Vuelta a Espana as Dylan Teuns claimed the leader's jersey after finishing second.
The 199km hilly stage from Mora de Rubielos to Ares del Maestrat featured four climbs and culminated at the summit (...)
While authorities investigate what set off a deadly shooting at an electronic music festival event, residents said it came amid a growing and increasingly open drug scene in this resort town that has long been spared the violence of Mexico's cartel (...)
Brad Keselowski says having all 16 Chase drivers start in the front of the field will be "fun to watch."
He just won't catch much of the action.
Keselowski has the pole after rain wiped out qualifying Friday at Dover International Speedway. It was (...)
Graeme McDowell ended one of his worst years with one of his best shots.
Fortunate to even get into a playoff, McDowell ended it quickly with a 5-iron that grazed the edge of the cup on the 18th hole and settled 3 feet away for a birdie to win the (...)
An Argentine naval ship detained for weeks in Ghana because of a financial dispute is returning home to a big welcome, AP reported.
Thousands of Argentine government sympathizers have traveled to the seaside resort of Mar del Plata to celebrate the (...)
تحطمت مروحية عسكرية سودانية صباح اليوم في ولاية شمال كردفان اثر اندلاع حريق على متنها وقتل أفراد طاقمها الستة، على ما أعلن المتحدث باسم الجيش لوكالة فرانس برس.
وقال عقيد في الجيش أن مروحية عسكرية "تحطمت صباح الجمعة في مطار الأبيض" عاصمة ولاية (...)
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0009 Malaysian FM Heads His Country's Delegation to 38th OIC Ministerial Conference in Kazakhstan
Kuala Lampur, Rajab 26, 1432, Jun 28, 2011, SPA - Foreign Minister Datuk Anifah bin Haji (...)
Zenyatta won the 300,000-dollar Clement L. Hirsch Stakes Thursday to improve to 18-0 Saturday.
The 6-year-old mare, with jockey Mike Smith in the irons, defeated Rinterval in the 1 1/16-mile race.
Zenyatta won the Hirsch for the third straight (...)
The head of the World Trade Organization rejected proposals to revise the Doha trade agenda on Tuesday, saying changes could be unpopular with developing nations seeking to open up world commerce.
European Union trade chief Karel de Gucht was (...)
A 16-year-old has set out to become the youngest person to sail around the world alone.
Abby Sunderland of Thousand Oaks, California, sailed into the sunny Pacific Ocean on Saturday after being delayed a few days by a series of violent storms (...)
Finance ministers from the Americas and multilateral lenders on Friday sought to shore up responses to the global economic crisis on Friday and plan beyond a potential recovery for a post-crisis world.
Though unemployment is still rising, Latin (...)
Spain overcame the absence of world number one Rafael Nadal to win the Davis Cup for the third time on Sunday when Fernando Verdasco beat Jose Acasuso to give them a 3-1 win over Argentina in the final.
Verdasco, brought in to replace Spain's (...)
Spain went 2-1 ahead in the Davis Cup final against Argentina on Saturday when Fernando Verdasco and Feliciano Lopez beat David Nalbandian and Agustin Calleri in a fiery doubles encounter.
Nalbandian and Calleri took the first set before the (...)
Feliciano Lopez, who had been handed the awesome task of replacing injured world number one Rafael Nadal, stormed to Spain's rescue on Friday when he leveled the Davis Cup final against Argentina.
The stylish left-hander defeated Argentine number (...)
Argentina was relieved when David Nalbandian drew the opening singles in the Davis Cup final against Spain starting on Friday.
Juan Martin del Potro overtook Nalbandian last month to become Argentina's highest-ranked player, but the 20-year-old who (...)
U.S. President George W. Bush carefully avoided taking on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez directly at the 34-nation Summit of the Americas, in what aides said was an effort not to elevate the fiery leader, reported Reuters.
Chavez, long an (...)
Demonstrators opposed to U.S. President George W. Bush's presence at an Americas summit hurled rocks, ransacked businesses and set fires Friday near the meeting site, triggering clashes with police, reported dpa.
Police fired tear gas and rubber (...)
Massive Hurricane Ivan slammed into Cuba's sparsely populated western tip with the worst of its 160-mph
eyewall and moved into the Gulf of Mexico,
threatening U.S. oil installations and prompting thousands
of Americans to flee its catastrophic (...)
25-politics/Iraqi delegation flies to Najaf in peace bid
Baghdad, Aug 17, SPA -- An eight-member delegation of Iraqi political and religious leaders flew out of Baghdad on U.S. military helicopters
on Tuesday, heading for Najaf in a bid to end a (...)