See realtime coverage | Yahoo! Sports - 23 minutes ago By Rob Woollard | AFP - 1 hour 1 minute ago American swimming icon Michael Phelps will bring the curtain down on his glittering Olympic career Saturday as attention turns to track and field and the most eagerly anticipated 100m in history. |
See realtime coverage | New York Times - 30 minutes ago LONDON - Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee runner from South Africa whose athletic achievements have stirred an international debate over the distinction between disabled and able-bodied athletes, made Olympic history on Saturday morning when he ... |
See realtime coverage | Ynetnews - 17 minutes ago Over the past week more than 3000 Iranian snipers have arrived in Syria to aid the forces loyal to President Bashar Assad, Al-Arabiya reported, citing a leader of one of the rebel groups operating in the civil war-torn country. |
See realtime coverage | by Scott Horsley Audio for this story from Weekend Edition Saturday will be available at approx. 12:00 pm ET A job recruiter, left, talks with an unemployed man, at a job fair in San Jose, Calif. |
See realtime coverage | Reuters - 12 minutes ago | SEOUL (Reuters) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has said it will send a first batch of emergency food aid to impoverished North Korea, where a series of deluges and a typhoon have left hundreds of people dead or missing. |
by AP OTTAWA, Ill. (AP) - Falling at speeds of up to 220 mph, nearly 140 skydivers shattered the vertical skydiving world record as they flew heads-down in a massive snowflake formation in northern Illinois. |
See realtime coverage | “Freedom for Pussy Riot!” they cried. But three demonstrators were detained for a colourful show of support for the all-female punk band appearing at the Moscow courthouse opposite. |
See realtime coverage | Sweden's ambassador to Belarus was in for a big surprise - but it wasn't a teddy bear's picnic. In the wake of a pro-democracy teddy drop from a Swedish plane in Belarussian airspace, Sweden's Foreign Minister Carl Bildt claimed Belarus had expelled ... |
See realtime coverage | US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is in Kenya to press the country's leaders on the importance of democratic elections. |
Houston Chronicle - 5 hours ago MIAMI (AP) - Forecasters say a tropical depression has formed in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean. The National Hurricane Center reported late Friday that the storm was 240 miles (386 kilometers) west-southwest of the southernmost Cape Verde Islands and ... |
Boston.com - 3 hours ago NOBLE, Okla. (AP) - The gusty, southerly winds that whipped wildfires through rural woodlands north and south of Oklahoma City started to die down early Saturday, but not before burning dozens of homes. |
See realtime coverage | Albany Times Union - 54 minutes ago AP A University of Colorado Police officer gets into her patrol car on Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012, at the University of Colorado Medical Campus in Aurora, Colo. |
See realtime coverage | MarketWatch - 2 hours ago WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - The following are some of the reactions by economists and politicians to data showing the US created 163000 nonfarm jobs in July and that the unemployment rate edged up to 8.3%. |
See realtime coverage | MarketWatch - 2 hours ago NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Financial stocks rallied on Friday, tracking gains in the broader stock market after better-than-expected US jobs data. |
See realtime coverage | Patch.com - 57 minutes ago By Beth Lawton Your trip to the beach this month may cost more than earlier this summer, as fuel prices creep up across Northern Virginia. |
See realtime coverage | STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press SUN VALLEY, Idaho (AP) - Clint Eastwood just made Mitt Romney's day. The Oscar-winning director and longtime movie star says he's endorsing the Republican presidential candidate. |
See realtime coverage | WTSP 10 News - 22 hours ago SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) - Porn star Jenna Jameson chose a familiar stage to make her endorsement for the 2012 presidential election Thursday night. |
See realtime coverage | San Francisco Luxury News - 1 hour ago A model poses with a Galaxy Note of Samsung Electronics during a local launch event for Samsung's mobile devices at the company's headquarters in Seoul. |
See realtime coverage | Computerworld - 16 hours ago By Gregg Keizer Computerworld - Microsoft will walk away from the "Metro" tag it's been using for over a year to describe the new environment and apps in both Windows 8 and Windows RT, the company confirmed Friday. |
See realtime coverage | Entertainmentwise - 44 minutes ago After he was humiliated and betrayed by the person he loved most, Robert Pattinson seeked help from his Water For Elephants co-star Reese Witherspoon. |
See realtime coverage | BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Arnold Schwarzenegger says he was so eager to pursue bodybuilding success that he briefly ended up in an Austrian military jail. |
See realtime coverage | Patch.com - 33 minutes ago Remake of the 1990 cult classic has plenty of action and thrills, but ultimately falls short and comes out tedious and forgettable. |
See realtime coverage | New York Daily News - 6 hours ago Janet Jackson isn't backing down. A lawyer for the "Control" singer said late Friday that she'll "press forward" with her battle against the executors of Michael Jackson's lucrative estate - even though the negative publicity has been "relentless. |
See realtime coverage | Chicago Tribune - 3 hours ago Here's the rundown for Friday, Day 1 of Lollapalooza in Grant Park, as brought to you by yours truly (GK) and my colleague Bob Gendron (BG): 11:45 am: Are they expecting the Normandy invasion? |
See realtime coverage | Usain Bolt's London debut, Michael Phelps' Olympic finale headline Day 8 of the 2012 Olympics in London. If Michael Phelps wins a sixth London medal in his Olympic finale tonight, he'll have the most medals of any athlete at these Games. |
See realtime coverage | | NEW DELHI Aug 4 (Reuters) - India will appeal against the International Boxing Association's (AIBA) decision to overturn a result that cost welterweight boxer Vikas Krishan a quarter-final spot at the London Olympics, chef de mission PKM Raja said on ... |
See realtime coverage | San Francisco Chronicle - 3 hours ago London -- Well, that sure was fast. Expectations that the London Olympics track meet would be filled with good times were quickly confirmed on Day 1, with seven sprinters running women's 100-meter heats in 11 seconds or better Friday night, ... |
See realtime coverage | Tampabay.com - 14 minutes ago STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Joe Paterno's family said Friday it plans to appeal the sanctions imposed by the NCAA against Penn State for the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. |
See realtime coverage | Tampabay.com - 14 minutes ago AP and New York Times NASA's car-sized Curiosity rover is headed for a two-year, $2.5 billion mission to study whether Mars ever had the elements needed for microbial life. |
See realtime coverage | Las Vegas Review - Journal - 1 hour ago By Jennifer Robison NASA on Friday announced that it will give three aerospace companies more than $1.1 billion to build small spacecraft to take astronauts to the International Space Station. |
See realtime coverage | By Allen Bernard | COLUMBUS, Ohio Aug 3 (Reuters) - People flocking to agricultural fairs across the United States were warned on Friday to be cautious around pigs after reports this week of nearly a dozen swine flu cases linked to attendance at fairs ... |
See realtime coverage | MedPage Today - 13 hours ago By MedPage Today Staff Beta amyloid protein, believed by many to cause Alzheimer's disease, halted nerve damage in animal models of multiple sclerosis. |
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