MOSCOW (Reuters) - Roman Shirokov kept Leonid Slutskiy's 100 percent record as Russia coach intact when his late strike secured a 1-0 victory over Portugal in a friendly in Krasnodar on Saturday.
Oscar Pistorius walked into a South African police station Saturday to report for community service, the first public sighting of the double-amputee athlete since he was released from jail in secret last month and moved to...
By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Missouri's game against BYU will by Gary Pinkel's 189th in 15 seasons as coach of the Tigers. It is safe to say none has ever been played after a more...
Pelicans center Alexis Ajinca admitted he had a hard time focusing on basketball Friday night.
Nov 14 (Infostrada Sports) - Qualifying session 1 from the Formula One Brazilian Grand Prix at Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace on Saturday 1. Lewis Hamilton (Britain) Mercedes 1:11.682 2. Nico Rosberg (Germany) Mercedes 1:11.746 3. Kimi Raikkonen (Finland) Ferrari 1:12.185 4. Sebastian Vettel (Germany) Ferrari 1:12.240 5. Nico Huelkenberg (Germany) Force India - Mercedes 1:12.595 6. Daniel Ricciardo (Australi
BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - A Ukrainian civilian helicopter that illegally entered Slovak airspace and crashed on Wednesday killed eight people aboard including a Ukrainian pilot and five men and two women from Afghanistan, the interior ministry said on Saturday.
CHESNEE, S.C. — Spartanburg County deputies say a 25-year-old man killed his wife when his gun fired while he waved it around during a card game.
The gas company that services a New Jersey house where an explosion killed one person and critically injured two others this week said no leak was evident when a technician visited the location the day before the blast.
Every Wednesday for more than two years, Tawanda Jones has stood vigil - in front of City Hall, outside the state's attorney's office, on an East Baltimore street corner, in the freezing dark of winter, in the...
April Hoagland and Beckie Peirce, a Utah couple who married last year, went to a routine hearing Tuesday expecting to hear an update on how long it would be before they could adopt the baby girl they'd been raising as...
ATHENS, Nov 14 (Reuters) - The holder of a Syrian passport found near the body of one of the gunmen who died in Friday night's attacks in Paris passed though Greece in October, a Greek minister said.
DUHOK, Iraq (Reuters) - A mass grave believed to contain the remains of more than 70 members of Iraq's Yazidi minority was discovered east of Sinjar town on Saturday after Kurdish forces claimed victory over Islamic State militants in the area, the mayor and locals said.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Olympic committee said on Saturday it would spearhead a clean-up programme in Russian athletics to ensure a doping scandal does not prevent honest sportsmen and women from competing for the country at the 2016 Olympics.
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron said on Saturday the threat to Britain remained "severe" after the Paris attacks, as a terminal at a major UK airport was evacuated as a precaution amid heightened security fears.
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron said on Saturday the threat to Britain remained "severe" after the Paris attacks, as a terminal at a major UK airport was evacuated as a precaution amid heightened security fears.
BELEK, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey's military has killed four Islamic State militants after coming under fire from the insurgents across the Syrian border on Saturday, security sources told Reuters.
VIENNA (Reuters) - EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini told reporters on Saturday that multinational talks on the Syrian crisis held in Vienna had been 'good'.
Paris, France — The string of coordinated attacks in and around Paris late Friday left at least 128 people dead, in the worst such violence in France’s history. The assailants struck at least six very different venues, ranging from the national sports stadium to a pizzeria. As Cable News Network (CNN) reported the fatalities rising to 153 on Saturday, the overall toll was still expected to rise. In declaring three days of national mourning, French President President Francois Hollande blamed the... Читать дальше...
A weekend for a 16-year-old consists of waking up late, going out with friends, playing basketball, lazing around, and maybe, when he’s feeling particularly “energetic,” squeezing in some homework in between. Kesz Valdez does none of that. Instead, you would find him in dump sites, cemeteries, and slum areas leading a team of volunteers and teaching street children everything from proper hygiene to children’s rights. But then again, Kesz is not your ordinary teen. In 2013, when he was just 13 years old... Читать дальше...
ANGEL THOUGHTS A man who honors his mother will give his wife a life of royalty.—Anonymous “We had to change the attitude of the Filipino toward his own country,” Tourism secretary Ramon Jimenez, Jr. noted in a TV interview recently with columnist Ichu Villanueva. Apparently, he has succeeded with his simple, encompassing message to the world and to Filipinos: “It’s more fun in the Philippines!” More than 80,000 Pinoys have posted their own version of the tourism campaign and thousands, too, have come home to travel locally. Читать дальше...
“I wanted to do that, too,” she said. I could hear her voice in my head, but it was muffled. She was halfway around the world. It was one of the last conversations we were to have before she bid me goodbye and at the end of the day, the “net of discussion,” it was for the best. Because maybe I really did just want to forget. I’ll never know. I leave those thoughts behind as I throw myself into the water column. BOOM. …SPLASH! …BANG! (or was it?) Truth is, there’s no onomatopoeic way to describe the... Читать дальше...
The changes on TV5 have worried some of its talents, but not Ogie Alcasid. In fact, the singer-host simply deems it business as usual.
Making people laugh is never easy. Go ask Edgar “Bobot” Mortiz, director of long-running ABS-CBN comedy gag show “Banana Split.”
In a show of oneness with the indigenous Lumads who have camped at Liwasang Bonifacio, Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle, archbishop of Manila, joined them in their protest last Wednesday. Donning a tribal headgear offered to him by the demonstrators, he stood out in his simple garb as a priest as he posed with the indigenous folk in their colorful native costumes. But there was no doubt that he was one with them in their appeal for peace and justice. As early as last September, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference... Читать дальше...
Actress Jessy Mendiola is trying to defy gravity and rise above the series of controversies that hounded her in past months.
