Simon Gerrans became the second consecutive Australian winner of the Milan-San Remo classic Saturday, edging Swiss standout Fabian Cancellara and top Italian hope Vincenzo Nibali in a three-man sprint finish.
Last year, Matthew Goss became the (...)
Hurricane Irene cut power to more than a million people in Puerto Rico, downing trees and flooding streets, before heading out over warm ocean water Monday on a path that could take it to the US mainland by the end of the week.
There were no (...)
Oscar-winning US actress Julia Roberts was Monday honored with a lifetime achievement award at the San Sebastian film festival in Spain.
The 42-year-old received the festival's Donostia Award from Spanish actor Javier Bardem, her co-star in her (...)
Hanley Ramirez hit a grand slam and Dan Uggla singled home the winning run in the ninth inning for his third RBI as Florida beat New York just hours after the Marlins announced Edwin Rodriguez will remain their manager.
New York scored twice in the (...)
A Southern California mother whose two children were reported missing 15 years ago has tracked them down in Florida using Facebook.
The children's father, Faustino Utrera, took off with them in 1995 when they were ages 2 and 3, said Deputy District (...)
The pounding beat of “Eye of the Tiger” from “Rocky III” blasted from speakers as Manny Pacquiao's black Hummer pulled up at an open-air basketball court on a recent humid evening.
The world welterweight boxing champion, seeking a seat in the (...)
Researchers are warning of a new blight on the ocean: a swirl of confetti-like plastic debris stretching over thousands of square miles in a remote expanse of the Atlantic Ocean.
The floating garbage - hard to spot from the surface and spun (...)
The leader of Yemen's northern rebels said Saturday he was ready to accept government conditions for a ceasefire to bring a halt to an intensifying war that has devastated the area and even drawn in the military of neighboring Saudi Arabia.
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A Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo Bay has died of an “apparent suicide,” US military officials announced Tuesday.
The Joint Task Force that runs the US prison in Cuba said guards found 31-year-old Muhammad Ahmad Abdallah Salih unresponsive and not (...)
As American astronauts overhauled the aging Hubble, European scientists launched an even larger space telescope toward a far-flung orbit, hoping to help answer two questions: How did the cosmos begin and are we alone in it? “We are seeking the (...)
Scientists are airlifting dozens of one of the world's largest frogs off of Montserrat island to save them from a deadly fungus devastating their dwindling habitat.
The dense forest of this tiny British Caribbean territory is the last remaining (...)
year-old British woman has set a new world record in freediving with a 314-foot (96-meter) ocean plunge on a single breath.
Sara Campbell completed the dive in three minutes, 34 seconds in the Vertical Blue competition Thursday off Long Island in (...)
Miss Universe's blog posting about having fun at Guantanamo Bay has vanished from the pageant's Web site as embarrassed officials try to quash what they call a misunderstanding.
A flurry of critical commentary and news stories over the Venezuelan (...)
Miss Universe and Miss USA have taken a firsthand look at the U.S. prison for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay.
The beauty pageant winners took part in a VIP tour to entertain American military personnel at the prison in Cuba.
Miss Universe (...)
Many detainees locked up at Guantanamo were innocent men swept up by US forces unable to distinguish enemies from noncombatants, a former Bush administration official said Thursday.
“There are still innocent people there,” Lawrence B. Wilkerson, a (...)
Families of two Saudi detainees who committed suicide in June 2006 while being held at Guantanamo Bay have sued the Pentagon, alleging Thursday that torture and brutal conditions at the offshore prison led the men to their deaths.
The New-York (...)
Kidnappers holding three Germans in Yemen have made a new demand, asking for the release of a Yemeni cleric jailed in the United States on terrorism charges, tribal mediators said Thursday.
The mediators said the kidnappers' leader Sheik Abed Rabbo (...)
Tina Thompson scored a game-high 31 points to lead the Houston Comets to a 90-81 win over the Sacramento Monarchs in the regular season finale for both teams Monday.
Roneeka Hodges added 14 points for the Comets, who were forced to play their last (...)
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Saturday promised Paraguay's new leftist president a steady supply of fuel to prevent shortages that could cause civil unrest.
Ex-priest President Fernando Lugo will receive “all the oil Paraguay needs” from (...)
Difficulties in removing bodies floating inside a ferry that capsized last weekend have forced divers to take in heavy weights to help maneuver them out of the vessel, Philippine officials said Thursday.
The bodies have floated to the top of the (...)
Clashes between rebels and Yemeni troops have resumed in the wake of a devastating bomb attack outside mosque that killed 18 worshippers, a government official said Saturday.
Three soldiers and four rebels died in the overnight skirmishes which (...)