SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Christina Kim held her nerve on the closing hole to secure the half point needed for Team International to regain the Lexus Cup with a 12 1/2 - 11 1/2 victory over defending champions Asia on Sunday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Director Danny Boyle’s “Slumdog Millionaire,” about a poor Indian boy who gets a shot at winning millions in a television game show, swept the British Independent Film Awards on Sunday with three prizes.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A report in the Sunday Times that Microsoft Inc is in talks with Yahoo Inc to buy the U.S. internet company’s online search business for $20 billion is “total fiction,” according to a key executive cited by an influential U.S. blog.
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LANDOVER, Maryland (Reuters) - The New York Giants won their seventh straight game and closed in on the NFC East title by defeating the Washington Redskins 23-7 on Sunday.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Moviegoers shook off economic gloom and gave Hollywood a gift over the U.S. holiday weekend, sending comedy “Four Christmases” to the top of box office charts and boosting ticket sales nearly 4 percent from last year, according to studio estimates on Sunday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress was wounded in an apparent accidental shooting on Friday and released from hospital on Saturday, the NFL team said.
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LONDON (Reuters) - An international research team has identified a tiny piece of genetic material that plays a key role in heart failure, and shown how an experimental compound prevents the condition in mice, scientists reported on Sunday.
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LAKE LOUISE, Alberta (Reuters) - Austria’s Hermann Maier scored his first World Cup win in almost three years with victory in a super-G at Lake Louise on Sunday.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - The new face of AIDS in China is a shy man with a heavy provincial accent, a weathered face and the rough hands of a manual worker.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Knicks put aside their problems with guard Stephon Marbury to score 82 points in the first half and crush the Golden State Warriors 138-125 on Saturday.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss voters on Sunday backed a scheme allowing heroin addicts to obtain the drug under prescription, angering conservatives who believe crime will rise as result.
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CHENNAI, India (Reuters) - Up to 15 percent of pregnant women in India are developing diabetes, raising the risk of their children developing the disease, said experts on Sunday, who blamed factors including malnutrition.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto Maple Leafs won their first game under new general manager Brian Burke, defeating the Philadelphia Flyers 4-2 on Saturday to end a five-game winless streak.
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BANGKOK, Thailand (Hollywood Reporter) - A Belgian TV journalist and his crew were assaulted while reporting on AIDS in Central China.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Rapper T.I. started a fifth nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Live Your Life” featuring Rihanna. But Beyonce was nipping at his heels with two songs.
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CHENNAI, India (Reuters) - India’s health minister on Saturday said he wants to push all school-going children to learn yoga, in the hope that it can reduce the prevalence of diseases such as diabetes and hypertension in years to come.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will begin laboratory tests in the next few weeks on full-body airport screening devices to see if they can produce images that do not show passengers naked, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Alexander Ovechkin guided the Washington Capitals to a 3-0 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Friday, their seventh successive victory at home.
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LAKE LOUISE, Alberta (Reuters) - Italy’s Peter Fill, helped by changing visibility conditions, beat the favorites to win his first World Cup victory in the Lake Louise downhill on Saturday.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Even in liberal Hollywood, an openly gay actor with a marketable name is a hard commodity to find, and if anyone should know, it is the filmmakers behind new movie, “Milk.”
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Kobe Bryant led a stunning late comeback to give the Los Angeles Lakers their six successive win on Friday, turning up the heat in the second half to beat the Dallas Mavericks 114-107.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Brian Burke was introduced as the new president and general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday, promising to restore the team to past glory.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration defended the safety of infant formula sold in the United States on Friday despite tests that found the chemical melamine in one brand and a related compound in another.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Knicks guard Stephon Marbury was suspended for one game and will forfeit close to $400,000 in salary after refusing to play against the Detroit Pistons, the NBA team said on Friday.
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CHENNAI, India (Reuters) - The prevalence of diabetes worldwide will far outstrip even the sharp increase currently projected unless rising trends of obesity are controlled, health experts said on Saturday.
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BAGAMOYO, Tanzania (Reuters) - Billionaire Bill Gates and thousands of babies are helping Africa prepare its largest medical experiment ever, in the search for a new vaccine against malaria.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - The number of gay men in China who are HIV positive has risen sharply in the last three years, according to a survey of Chinese cities conducted by the Ministry of Health.
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DETROIT (Reuters) - The Tennessee Titans handed the Detroit Lions a 47-10 Thanksgiving Day thrashing on Thursday to send the toothless hosts to their 12th successive defeat of the season.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Playwright William Gibson, whose “The Miracle Worker” won awards and thrilled audiences with its hopeful tale of the teaching of deaf and blind Helen Keller, died at age 94 this week in Massachusetts.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Four genetic variations appear to determine the speed at which people burn up food, researchers said on Thursday, a finding that could one day see doctors offer their patients more individual care.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Cliff Richard and The Shadows will reunite next year for the last time with a stadium tour of Britain, tour organizers Live Nation said.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The world governing athletics body has asked the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to double the two-year suspensions imposed on seven female Russian athletes for manipulating doping samples.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Depression increases the risk of death in patients with heart failure, but the risk apparently disappears with antidepressant use, according to a study.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A 97-year-old document that contains clues to the identity of Eleanor Rigby, the subject of one of the Beatles’ best-loved songs, sold for 115,000 pounds ($177,000) at auction on Thursday.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After 35 years in showbusiness, John Travolta has taken his first stab at animation as the voice of an adorable puppy in Walt Disney’s “Bolt”.
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BANGALORE (Reuters) - A rapid HIV test that can be used in the privacy of one’s home may reach the supermarket and pharmacy shelves in a year or two, if developer OraSure Technologies Inc wins regulatory approval.
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VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Michael Cammalleri recorded his first career hat-trick to help the visiting Calgary Flames beat the surging Vancouver Canucks 4-3 Thursday.
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ALMATY (Reuters) - If you are a foreign company doing business in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, you might want to start taking some Kazakh lessons.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Healthy older men who given large doses of testosterone show increases in muscle mass and power, but no improvement in physical function, a new study shows.
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SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - Spain’s Miguel Angel Jimenez and Pablo Larrazabal stormed to a four-shot lead at the 54th World Cup of Golf after carding a remarkable nine-under-par 63 in the second round on Friday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. housing, consumer spending and business investment all weakened sharply last month as the dizzying downward spiral of the world’s largest economy gathered speed, data showed on Wednesday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Mice fed junk food for nine months showed signs of developing the abnormal brain tangles strongly associated with Alzheimer’s disease, a Swedish researcher said on Friday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women have easier and quicker access to the morning after pill since the Food and Drug Administration ruled that the medication could be sold to adults without a prescription, a survey of pharmacies in three large US cities shows.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Tenor Placido Domingo unveiled a new album of songs based on the poems of Pope John Paul II on Friday and said he was certain the late pontiff was a saintly man.
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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Quarterback Donovan McNabb rallied from a poor performance last time out to lead the Philadelphia Eagles to an explosive 48-20 victory over the Arizona Cardinals on Thursday.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc’s much-anticipated Black Friday event offered consumers discounts on Mac computers, iPods and accessories at levels similar to years past, despite speculation about deeper price cuts.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The New Orleans Hornets hit several clutch baskets down the stretch in a 105-101 road victory over the Denver Nuggets on Thursday.
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LONDON/TAIPEI (Reuters) - Fresh signs of a downturn in global chip demand emerged on Friday, as STMicroelectronics cut its fourth-quarter outlook while industry sources said two leading Taiwan companies are looking to slash costs.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Regular exercise and a calcium-rich diet could be two ways to help lower the risk of metabolic syndrome, according to a new study.
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DALLAS (Reuters) - The Dallas Cowboys continued their resurgence on Thursday in their final Thanksgiving Day game at Texas Stadium with a 34-9 romp over the Seattle Seahawks.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Ship breaking yards in Bangladesh where huge ocean-going vessels are dismantled at the end of their lives are the source of awe and empathy in a new documentary film that explores the plight of yard workers.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - As same-sex marriage stalls in California and a recession looms, Massachusetts and Connecticut are carving out an economic niche for gay and lesbian weddings — and the spending that comes with them.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New media and old can clash and crowd each other out, but blogger extraordinaire Arianna Huffington argues in a new book that the two worlds are rapidly joining together to bring out the best in each other.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration defended the safety of infant formula sold in the United States on Friday despite tests that found the chemical melamine and a related byproduct in two brands.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - HIV infections could surge if countries pinched by the global financial crisis cut AIDS prevention programs, a United Nations agency said on Friday.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - South Korea’s Lee Seon-hwa maintained her perfect Lexus Cup record to help defending champions Asia share the honors with Annika Sorenstam’s Internationals after Friday’s opening foursomes.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s Internet search leader Baidu said on Friday it will overhaul operations after state media said it allowed unlicensed medical services to buy high search rankings to win more customers.
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LONDON (Reuters) - MTV marks the 10th anniversary of its AIDS awareness campaign this year with an hour-long documentary by U.S. singer and Destiny’s Child founding member Kelly Rowland.