Wheldon Wins Second Indy 500

Wheldon Wins Second Indy 500


Wheldon Wins Second Indy 500

Posted: 29 May 2011 12:41 PM PDT

Dan Wheldon charged to a second Indianapolis 500 win in seven years on Sunday as the "Greatest Spectacle in Racing" celebrated its 100th anniversary.


Egypt to expel Iranian envoy in spy probe

Posted: 29 May 2011 12:29 PM PDT

Diplomat to be deported within 48 hours following brief detention on allegations of espionage and setting up spy rings.


Hollywood Starts to Worry as 3-D Fizzles in U.S.

Posted: 29 May 2011 12:18 PM PDT

The strongest films have benefited from 3-D, but consumers are rejecting middling movies that employ the technology to wring more money from moviegoers.


Two FIFA Officials Are Suspended; Blatter Is Cleared

Posted: 29 May 2011 12:54 PM PDT

FIFA's corruption scandal continued to widen Sunday with the suspension of two more officials from soccer's world governing body.


Mubarak wealth no more than $1 milllion: lawyer

Posted: 29 May 2011 12:00 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - The wealth of toppled Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is no more than $1 million and he has no assets overseas, his lawyer said Sunday.


Djokovic and Federer win in Paris

Posted: 29 May 2011 09:28 AM PDT

Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer remain on a collision course at the French Open after both men swept into the quarter-finals at Roland Garros.


Protesters board Greenland drill

Posted: 29 May 2011 11:50 AM PDT

Three Greenpeace campaigners scale an oil rig off the coast of Greenland in a bid to stop a Scottish company drilling.


VIDEO: Fifa suspends Hammam and Warner

Posted: 29 May 2011 11:17 AM PDT

Football's governing body Fifa provisionally suspends executive committee members Mohamed Bin Hammam and Jack Warner after a meeting of its ethics committee on Sunday but president Sepp Blatter has no case to answer.


Sudan Threatens to Occupy 2 More Disputed Regions

Posted: 29 May 2011 12:52 PM PDT

The northern army is risking war with the south just weeks before southern Sudan is due to split off as an independent country, Western and Sudanese officials said Sunday.


England dominate as Trott shines

Posted: 29 May 2011 11:07 AM PDT

Jonathan Trott remorselessly grinds his way to England's highest ever score against Sri Lanka as the hosts dominate a rain-affected day four of the first Test.


Zuma Seeks Role in Libya Talks

Posted: 29 May 2011 09:46 AM PDT

South Africa's President Jacob Zuma is heading to Libya, the latest in a flurry of peacemaking trips that reflects a foreign policy driven by crisis and by ambition for an elevated role in the world.


G-8 Pledges Aid to Egypt, Tunisia

Posted: 29 May 2011 01:04 PM PDT

Group of Eight countries pledged aid to Egypt and Tunisia, with a clear message: Moves toward democracy and open government will be rewarded.


FIFA Suspends Two Officials in Bribery Probe

Posted: 29 May 2011 01:04 PM PDT

FIFA suspended two executive committee members Sunday amid allegations they bribed voters in the presidential election campaign. Soccer's governing body also cleared FIFA President Sepp Blatter of ignoring the alleged bribes.


China Clamps Down in Bid to Halt Mongolian Protests

Posted: 29 May 2011 09:34 AM PDT

Chinese police clamped heavy controls across Inner Mongolia on Sunday after a week of ethnic protests by students over the hit-and-run killing of a Mongolian herder by a Chinese truck driver exposed simmering tensions in the resource-rich region.


Modern Love: What Is Carved in Stone

Posted: 28 May 2011 08:37 PM PDT

A season among the petroglyphs makes a young man reconsider all those love-related text messages.


Bubbling sea signals coral threat

Posted: 29 May 2011 10:42 AM PDT

Findings from a "natural laboratory" in seas off Papua New Guinea suggest that acidifying oceans will severely hit coral reefs by the end of the century.


Serbian nationalists protest arrest of genocide suspect

Posted: 29 May 2011 10:59 AM PDT

Hundreds of Serbian police officers, some in riot gear, hit the streets of the capital Belgrade Sunday, as an ultra-nationalist party called for a demonstration against the arrest of genocide suspect Ratko Mladic.


Opposition: 8 dead in Syrian violence

Posted: 29 May 2011 10:37 AM PDT

Eight people, including two children, were killed Sunday when Syrian government forces, in tanks and armored personnel carriers, entered several towns in the Homs province in an attempt to quash protests, according to human rights activists.


VIDEO: Karzai condemns suspected Nato strike

Posted: 29 May 2011 10:52 AM PDT

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has condemned the killing of 14 civilians in the south-west of the country in a suspected Nato air strike.


Badminton chiefs scrap controversial skirt rule

Posted: 29 May 2011 07:58 AM PDT

Badminton's governing body postpones implementing a controversial new ruling that would have forced women to wear skirts on court.


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