Melbourne, Nov.20 : Noted cricket commentator and former player Tony Greig has inflamed the underarm scandal that rocked the sport in 1981, by claiming the most appalling tactics of all came from New Zealand batsman Brian...

Washington, Nov 20 : Fearing you won't be able to keep track of your workout sessions during the holiday season? Well, in that case, scrap all your worries, for cell phone software has been developed that can help people maintain their exercise routine and keep the pounds off over winter...

NAIROBI, Kenya | The United nations, African Union and Arab nations struggled to respond Thursday to a surge of pirate attacks, authorizing more sanctions and calling for international peacekeepers...

QUITO, Ecuador | A presidential commission recommended Thursday that Ecuador default on almost 40 percent of its foreign debt after finding "illegalities and illegitimacies" in the...

TOPEKA, Kan. | A former Army cook convicted of multiple rapes and murders is set to die next month in what would be the U.S. military's first execution in nearly 50...

WASHINGTON | President-elect Barack Obama plans to nominate Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state after Thanksgiving, an aide to his transition said...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti | The 5-year-old teetered on broomstick legs - he weighed less than 20 pounds, even after days of drinking enriched milk. Nearby, a 4-year-old girl hung from a strap attached to...

The Big Three automakers must give Congress a plan by Dec. 2 showing how they would use federal money to remain viable businesses, Democratic leaders said. If the companies do so, Congress could...

HealthStyles Exercise Equipment's Commercial Product Division provides state-of-the-art Nautilus, FreeMotion, Octane, and Expresso commercial exercise equipment for the new SuperFit fitness...

Nearly 11,000 cancer deaths could be avoided every year if British doctors were as good at detecting and treating the disease as the best countries in Europe and patients were less stoical, according...

After the jump, my colleague Tim Stack and I convene a meeting of EW's Team Rosie Appreciation Society to discuss the latest contretemps in what historians are even now recording as the longest...

The measure, which would keep U.S. forces in Iraq for another three years, has a good chance of passing in the Shiite-led parliament. But the uproar created by loyalists of radical Shiite cleric...

BETHESDA, Maryland, November 20. UNIVERSAL Sports has put together a complete package of top swims and performances that took place at the FINA World Cup over the past two months.The series, which...

WASHINGTON | Two years after the government urged that HIV tests become as common as cholesterol checks, there are small gains but still one in five people infected with the AIDS virus don't know it,...

In the first hearing on the government's justification for holding detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, a federal judge ruled Thursday that five Algerian men were held unlawfully for...

WASHINGTON | Democrats steered the House toward more aggressively tackling global warming and other environmental problems Thursday, toppling veteran Michigan Rep. John Dingell, a staunch supporter...

After 100 years of continuous changing conditions, Bochers has become Eppendorf’s favorite pub over recent years. There is an established lunch table and the clientele includes families, artists,...

SOFIA—Bulgaria plans to free thousands of minor offenders in an attempt to relieve its overcrowded jails and ease the work of the legal system, the government said Thursday. Under a draft law...

Cost restraints hamper temporary Olympic sports venue Cost restrictions forces Olympics organisers to consider cancelling a temporary sports venue in...

Middle-age hits Australians harder than most, but they are more likely than others to choose love over money to get through tough times. A survey comparing Australians and Britons has found that...

In 2006, Alaska desperately needed cash to complete a museum featuring a mummified bison and other natural wonders of the frozen north. So the state dipped into its share of the landmark 1998 tobacco...

Ida Cody had claimed she gave her husband $20 to purchase the winning ticket on May 5, 2007, from Smith's Grocery and Deli in Lake Hamilton. Her civil lawsuit claimed William Cody agreed to split any...

Police say residents have been finding butcher-quality cuts of meat on the common for about five weeks. In the most recent incident, a resident discovered a large piece of raw, unwrapped meat, along...

WASHINGTON | Jarred by new jobless alarms, Congress raced to approve legislation Thursday to keep unemployment checks flowing through the December holidays and into the new year for a million or more...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. | A pre-dawn blaze raced through a barn at a former race track in western Kentucky on Thursday, killing 27 horses and wiping out the dreams of at least one...

In this Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2007 file photo, Attorney General Michael Mukasey addresses the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security, at the University Club in...

They weave through traffic on South Florida's highways sometimes at speeds approaching 180 mph, sleek, aerodynamic motorcycles that sometimes pop wheelies as they vanish into the distance with a...

DR PEPPER plans to announce on Wednesday that, for the first time, it is promoting a professional athlete on bottles that it will distribute nationally. But the shaggy-haired athlete on the label is...

TOKYO, Nov. 21 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Major sports events scheduled in Japan for Saturday, Nov. 22: GOLF JGTO - Dunlop Phoenix. 3rd day. Phoenix Country Club, Miyazaki, Miyazaki Prefecture. 9 a.m. JLPGA...

The 2008 Blue Dragon Awards chose a sports drama about the silver medal-winning Korean women handball Olympic team as the best movie of the year. In the award ceremony at the KBS Hall in Yeouido,...

Winter Wonderland, London's spectacular winter attraction, returns to the capital this weekend! It's back for a second year after a phenomenal success with over half a million visitors last year. ...

The British stiff upper lip could account for the country's poor showing in the European cancer survival league – but no one knows for sure, the Government's cancer tsar has warned. ...

Charlie Faas, in the grasp of team mascot S.J. Sharkie, helped Silicon Valley Sports and Entertainment diversify its business units to boost total revenue to $120 million in...

Most parents would think a daily walk through their neighbourhood, pushing their child along in a buggy would be a healthy thing to do. But, surprisingly, research has found that such a seemingly...

Scientists used to say "you are what you eat". Then they said, "you are what your mother ate". Now, they have concluded that "you eat what you are"; genes play a key role in shaping our dietary...

CAPE CANAVERAL | NASA couldn't have staged it any better: 10 people in orbit for Thursday's 10th anniversary of the world's most elaborate and expensive housing project, the international space...

Some of Britain's biggest fast-food outlets including McDonald's and KFC have agreed to a historic deal with the Government to make their food more healthy as part of a campaign to cut heart disease...

About 2:25 p.m., the man entered the branch of Mid-Florida Federal Credit Union at 2105 New Tampa Highway and passed a note demanding money. No weapon was seen. The man ran northwest from the bank...

National Youth Week . He is studying his A-levels at an inner city state school and hopes to study economics at Oxford. In his blog, he outlines the policies he thinks are necessary to inspire more...

Get scrubbing with one of these magnificent cleaning gadgets. Click on the image to the right to launch our guide. Have we come out gleaming or should we clean up our act? Scroll down...

NEW YORK : New York's Fifth Avenue puts on a show for the holidays. From Tiffany to Bergdorf Goodman to Saks, window displays are designed to delight the eye and lift the spirit When it comes...

NEW YORK : Back in the spring, when the world still felt flush with wealth, the profusion of jewelers lavishing products, from Apple earbuds to belt buckles, with diamonds and gold seemed like...

From what their children eat to where they sleep and whether their favourite toy is educational enough, parents have never been short of things to agonise about.But today researchers add "buggy...

LONDON : paradise In a hushed silence, the Swedish designer Bjorn Gardsby delicately unfolds a tiny evening garment, decorated with angel wings and shimmering with 2,000 Swarovski crystals...

GREELEY, Colo. - A Catholic priest convicted of indecent exposure for jogging naked around a track at a high school has been sentenced to five years...

WASHINGTON | Mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are suspending foreclosures for about 16,000 households during the holiday...

PARIS : Feeding an insatiable appetite for novelty, perfumers now bring more than 300 new scents to market every year - more in a single year than the total number of new fragrances introduced in the...

Suzanne Denbow Perhaps you’ve only just recently acquired your license to drive, or perhaps you’re a grizzled veteran of the salty tarmac, but either way, you’re interested in...

Dirty Sexy Money for this season. The network isn't commenting, but multiple sources confirm that all three shows have "effectively been canceled." The one bright spot: The...

A national exhibition of sports apparatus and goods was held in Pyongyang from November 17 to 20, the official KCNA news said on Thursday. More than 1,150 pieces of sports apparatuses and goods of at...