KANSAS CITY (Reuters) - Southpaw Cliff Lee earned his eighth win in nine decisions as the Cleveland Indians came from three runs behind to edge Kansas City 5-4 on Friday, handing the Royals their 12th loss in a row.
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MIAMI (Billboard) - Victor Manuelle, one of salsa music’s brightest contemporary stars, is the first to admit that his way is not for everyone.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Brad Pitt’s manager denied a television report on Friday that Oscar winner Angelina Jolie, who has publicly acknowledged she was expecting twins with the actor, had given birth to them in France this week.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. patients who use certain asthma inhalers made with ozone-depleting propellants should talk to their doctors now about alternatives ahead of a ban that starts in January, health officials said on Friday.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In a major upset at the North American box office, the four cosmo-swilling fashionistas of “Sex and the City” whipped reigning champ Indiana Jones in the film’s first day in theaters, according to preliminary estimates issued on Saturday.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The addition of Genentech Inc’s cancer drug Avastin to chemotherapy slows the progress of breast cancer at two different doses, according to results of a large international trial released on Saturday.
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PARIS (Reuters) - While Maria Sharapova led a stampede of Russian women into the last 16 of the French Open on Saturday, their hopes of a men’s champion vanished when Nikolay Davydenko fell victim to a stunning Ivan Ljubicic fightback.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - The Boston Red Sox have placed pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka on the 15-day disabled list after an MRI scan revealed a mild strain of the rotator cuff in his right shoulder, the team said Friday.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - World champions Jeremy Wariner, Blanka Vlasic, Irving Saladino and Janeth Jepkosgei will launch their bids for the $1 million Golden League Jackpot in Berlin on Sunday.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Robby Ginepri became the first American man in five years to reach the fourth round of the French Open with a clinical 6-4 6-4 6-4 win over local hope Florent Serra on Saturday.
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PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - The Detroit Red Wings held the series lead but the Pittsburgh Penguins claimed the momentum on Friday as the teams prepared for game four of the Stanley Cup finals.
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AUBURN HILLS, Michigan (Reuters) - The Boston Celtics clinched their first NBA championship appearance since 1987 with a 89-81 win over the Detroit Pistons in the Eastern Conference Finals on Friday.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - It’s the first time songs performed on “American Idol” have been made available for immediate download on iTunes — and the audience’s ability to make an instant-gratification purchase has paid off handsomely for winner David Cook.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new documentary that takes a wide-ranging look at steroid abuse suggests an American culture of winning at all costs is at odds with its public condemnation of the performance-enhancing drugs.
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NASHVILLE (Billboard) - Look out, Barney. There’s a new dinosaur on the family touring scene.
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DENVER (Billboard) - Legal pressure is mounting against U.S. wireless operators over their role in facilitating either false or misleading charges for mobile content — primarily ringtones.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former major winners Davis Love III and David Duval enter the last-chance saloon in Columbus, Ohio on Monday bidding to secure places at next month’s U.S. Open.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Colon cancer patients treated with Genentech Inc’s Avastin and chemotherapy lived longer without their disease getting worse than those who were also treated with ImClone Systems Inc’s Erbitux, according to a study presented on Saturday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - “Sex” moved from the city to the cinema on Friday as hordes of determined women descended upon Manhattan for the premiere of “Sex and the City” in the city where the hit television show-turned-film takes place.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Rapper Plies says he’s plenty aware of the hip-hop marketplace’s short attention span, which is why he’s releasing his sophomore album, “Definition of Real,” less than a year after his 2007 debut, “The Real Testament.”
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chloe Sutton, 16, secured a place in the 10km open water swimming at the Beijing Olympics when she won a women’s qualifying race on Saturday.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - A drug used to strengthen the bones of women with breast cancer helped cut the risk of the cancer returning by 36 percent, European researchers said on Saturday,
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Chicago Cubs overcame an early eight-run deficit to squeeze past the Colorado Rockies with a stunning 10-9 victory at a blustery Wrigley Field on Friday.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Charlie Sheen, star of the television comedy “Two and a Half Men,” married fiancee Brooke Mueller in Beverly Hills on Friday night, according to several media reports.
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DUBLIN, Ohio (Reuters) - Mathew Goggin squandered a great start but still held the clubhouse lead after his second round at the Memorial tournament on Friday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - “I’m sorry. You don’t have breast cancer,” the oncologist told Charmaine Atkenson.
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PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - The National Hockey League said it would observe a moment of silence before Game Four of the Stanley Cup on Saturday in memory of Vancouver Canucks defenseman Luc Bourdon who was killed in a motorcycle accident.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hutchison Telecommunications has sealed a deal with Apple Inc to market the U.S. firm’s popular iPhone handset in the city and Macau as soon as the next quarter, a Hong Kong newspaper reported on Friday.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - FIFA president Sepp Blatter walked away from world soccer’s 58th annual Congress on Friday with a big smile plastered across his face.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Dell Inc , the world’s No. 2 personal computer maker, said on Friday sales outside the United States were growing much faster than its home market and could account for two-thirds of total revenues within five years.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of uninsured U.S. young adults, who already represent a major chunk of the American population without health coverage, rose again in 2006, according to a study released on Friday.
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NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - It has only gone from bad to worse in China this spring.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - DISH Network Corp and EchoStar Corp said on Friday they had filed a lawsuit against TiVo Inc and asked a Delaware court to find that their new DVR software does not infringe a TiVo patent.
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PHOENIX, Arizona (Reuters) - Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Randy Johnson tied Roger Clemens for second place on the career strikeouts list on Thursday in the Diamondbacks’ 4-3 loss to the San Francisco Giants.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Newly crowned “American Idol” champion David Cook took over America’s Hot 100 singles chart on Thursday, sending a record-breaking 11 new titles into the tally a week after he won the top-rated TV talent show.
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CARLSBAD, California (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc seem to hang out in all the same places but somehow keep missing each other.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - OTE , Greece’s largest telecom group and partly owned by Deutsche Telekom , may sue Siemens for damages over alleged overcharging, German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Cable Inc plans to offer subscribers an easier way to bring Internet video to their television screens as part of an overall home networking system, Chief Executive Glenn Britt said on Friday.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Natascha Kampusch, the Austrian who spent eight years locked in a windowless cell after being abducted in Vienna, turns TV chat show host on Sunday when her debut program airs on national television.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Detroit Pistons power forward Rasheed Wallace has been fined $25,000 by the NBA for his use of profanity and criticism of the officiating following Game Five of the Eastern Conference finals on Wednesday.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Lakers secured an NBA finals berth for the first time in four years by mounting a dramatic fightback to beat the San Antonio Spurs 100-92 in Game Five on Thursday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Protein accumulations, or plaques, characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease can be eliminated from the brains of mice, researchers report, by encouraging scavenger immune cells called macrophages to do their work.
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REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may have attended just four rock concerts in her life, but the rock band Kiss apparently thinks she is pretty cool.
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NASHVILLE (Billboard) - Country singer Julianne Hough, whose debut album opened at No. 3 on the U.S. pop chart this week, took the scenic route to Nashville.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors who specialize in disorders of the skeletal system and associated muscles, joints and ligaments are being kept busy these days, as increasing numbers of baby boomer athletes and exercise enthusiasts hit middle age and beyond.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Former champion Serena Williams trudged out of the French Open on Friday after a humbling loss to a tenacious Slovenian, while Rafael Nadal showed it would take more than mere grit to prise the title from his hands.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A year after rocking the Los Angeles Lakers with disgruntled talk of wanting to be traded, Kobe Bryant led his team into the NBA championship finals with an inspirational display on Thursday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A Mediterranean diet rich in fruits and vegetables — already known to protect against heart disease — also appears to help ward off diabetes, Spanish researchers said on Friday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new analysis of current research provides “the strongest evidence to date” that giving small children supplemental vitamin D will help prevent them from developing type 1 diabetes later on, according to the review’s co-author.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comic actor Harvey Korman, who co-starred on the U.S. television classic “The Carol Burnett Show” in the 1960s and 1970s and in “Blazing Saddles” and other Mel Brooks movies, died on Thursday at age 81.
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PARIS (Reuters) - A technical hitch scrubbed the launch of an Ariane rocket carrying a British military satellite and a Turkish telecoms satellite hours before its scheduled blastoff, the Arianespace rocket launch company said on Friday.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Three-times champion Rafael Nadal muscled his way into the fourth round of the French Open with a 6-1 6-3 6-1 demolition of Finn Jarkko Nieminen on Friday.
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