Former members of the doo-wop singing group Sha Na Na were reuniting this weekend for a special one-time-only performance.
Sha Na Na is getting back together four decades after performing as the penultimate act at the Woodstock festival (having (...)
The highly rated Russian team led by former world champion Vladimir Kramnik will enter the 38th Chess Olympiad in Dresden as the clear favorite, but one American grandmaster says the US is fielding its strongest ever team.
The 13-day tournament (...)
Viswanathan Anand of India retained his world chess title Wednesday by drawing with the white pieces against Russian challenger Vladimir Kramnik.
The 24-move draw gave Anand a 6.5-4.5 victory in the best-of-12 game match, one of the shortest (...)
With his back to the wall, Russian challenger Vladimir Kramnik won game 10 against World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand of India in Germany on Monday to keep their title match going.
Kramnik now trails 6-4 in the 12-game match and must win the (...)
World chess champion Viswanathan Anand of India survived a scare and moved to within a half point of retaining his title with a hard-fought draw against his Russian challenger Vladimir Kramnik in game nine here on Sunday.
This gives Anand a 6-3 (...)
India's Viswanathan Anand beat challenger Vladimir Kramnik again on Tuesday to put another nail in the coffin of the Russian challenger's fast-disappearing hopes of reclaiming the chess world championship.
The win - Anand's third in four games - (...)
World chess champion Viswanathan Anand took a commanding two-point lead over challenger Vladimir Kramnik on Monday when the Russian handed him a victory by making a horrible blunder under time pressure.
The win gave Anand, of India, a 3.5-1.5 lead (...)
Defending champion Viswanathan Anand of India played to a 29-move draw with Russian challenger Vladimir Kramnik on Saturday in the fourth game of their world chess championship match.
Anand leads the 12-game match 2.5-1.5. He won the third game in (...)
Defending champion Viswanathan Anand of India scored the first victory in his title match against Russian Vladimir Kramnik with a third game that saw both players take off the gloves and go at each other with gusto.
After a dull draw in game one (...)
World chess champion Viswanathan Anand of India started the second game of his championship match against Russian challenger Vladimir Kramnik with a definite advantage Wednesday, but had to settle for a draw.
Still, it was a much more exciting game (...)
The desperate underground drive to
reach six trapped miners was suspended indefinitely Friday
after a cave-in killed three rescuers inside a mountainside
mine, a federal official said according to AP.
«Is there any possible way we can continue (...)
Rescue crews have drilled to
within 500 feet (150 meters) of where six coal miners are
thought to be trapped deep underground in the western U.S.,
encouraging those on the surface that the mens' fate might
soon be known, according to AP.
A (...)
Efforts to reach six coal miners
trapped more than 1,500 feet (457 meters) underground will
take at least three days, and rescuers were not even sure
the men had survived the cave-in, one of the mine's owners
said Tuesday, according to (...)