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The furor surrounding comments attributed to Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has again cast an unfavorable light on racism in American sport. Sixty-seven years after Jackie Robinson famously broke baseball’s “color line” when he went to bat…
A severe storm system threatened tens of millions of people in Mississippi and the US Southeast on Monday, a day after tornadoes killed 17, ripped up homes and flipped cars over in nearby states. A tornado swept through the northern city of Tupelo around…
Wary sponsors dropped their support for the Los Angeles Clippers on Monday as pressure mounted over racist remarks allegedly made by the NBA team’s owner, increasingly embattled Donald Sterling. The National Basketball Association said it would make…
About 100 Venezuelan students chained themselves Monday to the front gate of a UN agency’s Caracas office, calling for an end to a new high court ruling requiring government approval for protests. Shouting defiantly “so where is the damn law that bars…
First couple of hip hop Beyonce and Jay-Z are joining forces for a North American tour that will see the husband-wife team stop in 16 cities, they announced Monday. The “On the Run” tour, which begins June 25 in Miami and ends August 5 in San Francisco…
Romantic comedy “The Other Woman” shrugged off a barrage of negative reviews to claim top spot at the North American box office this weekend, data showed Monday. The movie, starring Cameron Diaz, Kate Upton and Leslie Mann as three women who gang up…
Workers on London’s Underground train system began a 48-hour strike at 9:00 pm (2000 GMT) on Monday, threatening chaos for commuters and hitting football supporters attending Arsenal’s match with Newcastle. The action was called by the Rail, Maritime…
US stocks Monday finished mostly higher as investors absorbed new sanctions on Russia and looked ahead to a busy week of economic news and earnings. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 87.28 points (0.53 percent) to 16,448.74. The broad-based…
A German diplomat was wounded in the Yemeni capital on Monday as he evaded an attempt by gunmen to kidnap him, a security official said. The German foreign ministry confirmed that an embassy vehicle came under fire, adding that all passengers were “…
Australia’s Neil Robertson booked his place in the quarter-finals of this year’s World Championships with a 13-7 win over Mark Allen on Monday only to barely miss out on a notable landmark. The world number one was left stranded on 99 competitive century…
Scientists on Monday launched a radar-assisted hunt in a Madrid convent for the remains of Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes, author of “Don Quixote”. Two technicians in grey vests paced around a church altar in central Madrid’s red-brick Convent of…
President Barack Obama landed in the Philippines on Monday to cement new defence ties on the last leg of an Asian tour conducted against a backdrop of territorial tensions between US allies and China. Obama flew into Manila from Malaysia, hours after…
French engineering group Alstom said on Sunday that it has suspended trading in its shares as expectations grew for a possible bidding war between industrial giants General Electric and Siemens. The announcement came after French President Francois…
The PLO’s central council on Sunday adopted a plan to pursue attempts to join 60 United Nations bodies and international agreements, according to a statement from the governing body of the Palestine Liberation Organisation. The council, under the auspices…
Pope Francis on Sunday proclaimed John Paul II and John XXIII the Catholic Church’s newest saints at a festive ceremony joined by hundreds of thousands of pilgrims for two pontiffs who helped shape 20th-century history. “We declare and define as saints…
Pro-Russian Ukrainian rebels holding captive an international team of military observers from the OSCE said Sunday they are “prisoners of war” and brought them before the media in a news conference. The group of eight men, all Europeans, were part of…
US President Barack Obama paid homage to Malaysia’s moderate brand of Islam and picked his way through his hosts’ contentious politics Sunday on the latest leg of his Asian tour. Obama started his first full day in Kuala Lumpur at the marble-colonnaded…
Five members of the US-led NATO force in Afghanistan died in a helicopter crash in the south of the country on Saturday, NATO officials said, adding the cause of the incident was being investigated. The crash was the largest single loss of life for…
Pilgrims and dignitaries from the world over streamed into Rome a day before John Paul II and John XXIII are named saints in the first ever double papal canonisation. In front of the Vatican Saturday, families and groups of scouts armed with folding…