NORTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) - South African Tim Clark, inspired by two eagles, opened a one-stroke lead with a sparkling nine-under-par 62 in the Deutsche Bank Championship second round on Saturday.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Napster Inc said on Friday the online music service’s board was willing to consider a sale of the company and had hired UBS Investment Bank to consider options.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - High child mortality rates in conservative Afghanistan are linked not just to war but to mothers being uneducated and having little or no say when their children need medical help, a study has found.
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VENICE (Reuters) - A new documentary on aid workers in war zones shows the tough choices, dilemmas and limits faced by doctors providing emergency care in extreme conditions.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Venus and Serena Williams moved closer to a quarterfinal showdown at the U.S. Open after sailing into the fourth round of the year’s final grand slam with emphatic victories on Saturday.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - The Boston Red Sox eased to an 8-2 victory over the Chicago White Sox at Fenway Park on Saturday, the home team aided by a second consecutive 4-for-4 batting effort from in-form second baseman Dustin Pedroia.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British soul singer Amy Winehouse pulled out of a Paris concert at short notice on Friday after falling ill at home in London, her spokesman has said.
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GLENEAGLES (Reuters) - Justin Rose and Soren Hansen appeared to seal their Ryder Cup debuts with one round to go in the Johnnie Walker Championship while France’s Gregory Havret clung on to the lead for the third day in a row.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German customs police raided South Korea’s Hyundai IT Corp in Berlin on Saturday, seizing flat-screen televisions from its stand at IFA, the world’s largest consumer electronics fair.
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VENICE (Reuters) - A new film set in Indian Kashmir seeks to go beyond stereotypes of the troubled region as either the idyllic backdrop to Bollywood movies or the subject of news reports and documentaries into the violence.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former champion Andy Roddick withstood a barrage of winners from young Ernests Gulbis before fighting back for a 3-6 7-5 6-2 7-5 second-round victory in the wee hours of Saturday at the U.S. Open.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rocco Baldelli drilled a ninth-inning double down the third-base line to lift the Tampa Bay Rays to a dramatic 10-9 over the visiting Baltimore Orioles on Saturday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top seed Rafael Nadal continued his merciless path through the U.S. Open draw on Saturday with a 6-4 6-3 6-0 third-round victory over Serbian Viktor Troicki.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Singer Michael Jackson turned 50 on Friday, a shadow of the superstar once known as the “King of Pop” whose records thrilled millions before his bizarre personal life eclipsed his musical brilliance.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - A Cuban punk rocker whose songs have ridiculed the Cuban government was fined for public disorder on Friday after prosecutors reduced a more serious “social dangerousness” charge that could have sent him to prison for four years.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In pregnant women, pelvic floor muscle training for bladder-control problems, though beneficial initially, is ineffective over the long term, research shows.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Phil Hill, who in 1961 became the first American driver to win the Formula One world title, has died in California aged 81, his former Ferrari team said on Friday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Obesity is associated with an increased risk of colorectal adenomas — growths or polyps that can become cancerous — but weight loss might reduce the risk, a study hints.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Friday handed the country’s only Olympic medalist in Beijing a $100,000 cash reward for her performance at the games.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In people who are obese, weight-loss surgery will likely lead to an improvement in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) but it won’t eliminate the nighttime breathing disorder. Many patients will have residual OSA one year after weight-loss surgery (also known as bariatric surgery), results of a study indicate.
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NORTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Canada’s Mike Weir built on a burst of six birdies in the first seven holes to surge three strokes clear after the opening round of the Deutsche Bank Championship on Friday.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The European Union on Friday blocked a World Trade Organisation (WTO) investigation of its duties on high-tech imported goods such as satellite boxes, flat-panel computer monitors, and digital scanners and printers.
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VENICE (Reuters) - A new film on Giacomo Puccini has uncovered letters and documents suggesting the composer may have a second living descendant, in a tangled tale of infidelity and vengeance befitting one of his operas.
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LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Competition and a move away from tailored dressing, only exacerbated by a weak economy, are hurting the men’s suit business hard, and retailers are adding to manufacturers’ pain by demanding more discounts.
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DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co may shift billions of dollars of health care obligations for retired hourly workers to a trust fund overseen by the United Auto Workers union in 2010, a federal judge ruled on Friday.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt confirmed his domination of the sprints on Friday with a comfortable 100 meters victory at the Weltklasse Golden League meeting.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - While influenza vaccination does provide protection against catching the flu, it does not have a major impact on death in the elderly, contrary to what some studies have suggested, a new study suggests.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top-seeded world number one Ana Ivanovic fell victim to the wave of volatility in women’s tennis when she was ousted from the U.S. Open in the second round by 188th-ranked qualifier Julie Coin of France.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Alfonso Soriano’s solo home run in the bottom of the seventh inning helped the Chicago Cubs complete a 3-2 rally over the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday, their seventh straight victory.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Microsoft has agreed to buy Greenfield Online, owner of popular European price comparison website ciao.com, for about $486 million to boost its Internet search and e-commerce business in Europe.
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NASHVILLE (Billboard) - Seventy-year-old superstar Kenny Rogers is celebrating 50 years in the music business and has invited Cracker Barrel Old Country Stores along for the fun.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian heptathlete Lyudmila Blonska was given a lifetime ban on Friday after testing positive for an anabolic steroid at the Olympics.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A drizzly Flushing Meadows proved an inhospitable place for former champions Svetlana Kuznetsova and Lindsay Davenport on Friday, with both skidding out of the U.S Open in the third round.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Napster Inc said on Friday that its directors had mailed shareholders a letter urging them to reject three dissident board candidates in favor of reelecting three existing directors.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many physically-active people will return to recreational sports after having shoulder replacement surgery, research shows.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When ear wax builds up to the point of causing symptoms, people should turn to their doctors rather than the old-fashioned cotton swab, according to new guidelines.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A high intake of trans fats could increase colon cancer risk, according to new research published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - San Antonio Spurs guard Manu Ginobili will undergo ankle surgery next week, the team said on Friday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who stay active after being diagnosed with breast cancer — and even those who take up exercise for the first time after diagnosis — have a better chance of surviving the disease, a new study shows.
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VENICE (Reuters) - Oscar winners Kim Basinger and Charlize Theron play mother and daughter in “The Burning Plain”, an intense story of love and betrayal and the directorial debut by acclaimed Mexican screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - A video game depicting mercenaries storming Venezuela, which has been criticized in the oil-rich South American country as a blueprint for an invasion, will be released by a U.S. company this weekend.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Boy wizard Harry Potter won’t be whipping up his magic when the fall film season begins next week, but Hollywood is hoping momentum from summer hits like “The Dark Knight” and a wide mix of new movies will keep audiences happy into the holidays.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Did life imitate art when David Duchovny, who plays a sex-mad writer on the hit US TV show “Californication”, seek treatment for sex addiction?
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Nobel Prize-winning Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk published a new book in Turkey on Friday, his first since obtaining the award.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A private detective who once worked for Hollywood stars and a prominent attorney were convicted on Friday of federal wiretapping and conspiracy charges in a case stemming from billionaire Kirk Kerkorian’s bitter child support dispute.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who go through a traumatic event during or soon before pregnancy may be at increased risk of having an underweight baby, a large study suggests.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Australian actor Guy Pearce first grabbed the spotlight playing a demanding drag queen in the cult classic “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.”
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Record-setting swimmer Michael Phelps has satisfied some of his hunger for Americana since returning to the United States from his Olympic triumphs in China but has one special rendezvous he is looking forward to.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Local newspapers may be faced with hard times, but the ability to get news on a mobile device is flourishing, with several outlets providing context that helps explain particular stories’ places in the larger universe of world events.
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LONDON (Reuters) - People taking antipsychotic drugs are nearly twice as likely to have a stroke compared to those not on the treatment, British researchers reported on Friday.
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CANBERRA, (Reuters) - A Chinese factory worker has become an Internet sensation after a picture of her smiling and flashing a peace sign to a co-worker testing an Apple iPhone stayed on the phone that was sold to a man in Britain.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Levels of a protein linked with Alzheimer’s disease rise as people recover from brain injuries - a surprising finding that may help explain why injuries boost the risk of developing the disease, U.S. and Italian researchers said on Thursday.
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VENICE (Reuters) - Eight months after tearfully bowing out of fashion, Valentino returned to the red carpet with a film celebrating the man who dressed some of the world’s greatest beauties from Jackie Kennedy to Princess Diana.
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