Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 1:04 a.m. Scott Kaplan and Billy Ray Smith, whose morning show has started the day for many San Diego sports fans for nearly nine years, will not be on the air at XX...

Olympic downhill gold-medalist Lindsey Vonn capped a historic season with her third straight overall World Cup title Friday. Vonn won the final super-G race of the season for her 33rd World Cup...

A Japanese insect is to be introduced on a trial basis in Britain to tackle a damaging super-weed, the government announced Tuesday. The Japanese knotweed was originally used as an ornamental plant...

Terry Sanderson thought the Catholic bishops' pre-election document a "damp squib ... an extended and more than usually platitudinous Thought for the Day". Why,"even we wicked non-believers could...

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Flashdance T- shirt. No one, of course, could forget the movie’s exuberant star, Kid (a.k.a. Christopher Reid), who in my review I said “would be a magnetic performer even if it...

Image Credit: DC Comics DC Comics is celebrating its 75 anniversary this year. That’s a true milestone, and the iconic publisher deserves a round of applause. But we all know the truth: these...

Beachgoers stroll along the shoreline Friday as early spring breakers soak up the sun on Padre Island. Spring break crowds have been smaller than previous years so far, said beach superintendent...

Luxury Lifestyle Homes announces the launch of Zenny On The Loose a weekly blog post that follows Xenophon “Zenny” Speronis as he explores Southwest Florida in his quest to find unique...

By Wellington C RamosIn a talk show that was held last week on one of Belize’s most popular radio station Love FM, the owner of the radio station, Rene Villanueva, made a comment that, without...

A small, newly discovered comet will not get a chance to enjoy its fame for long. As you can see in this image sequence obtained by NASA’s Solar and Heliosopheric Observatory, the comet is on...

SAN FRANCISCO — OnLive, the streaming games-on-demand service, will launch on June 17 for $15/month, the company announced Wednesday at Game Developers Conference. Only the PC and Mac versions...

The organising committee of the IAAF World Indoor Championships (WIC) in Athletics (Doha 2010) held a signing ceremony confirming Life Fitness, the global leader in home and commercial fitness...

During a Friday workshop called to discuss projects - both planned and pending - commissioners heard updates from department directors on how that lifestyle will look.This new lifestyle already is...

Film-maker Jemima Harrison with a pedigree Bassett hound at this year's Crufts - She has become increasingly worried about the effects of inbreeding on pedigree...

Japanese food is renown for its elegant presentation and artistic aesthetics, but chef Hiroshi Nagashima has taken that tradition to new heights with a new book that shows the uninitiated how to turn...

California startup OnLive plans a June 17 launch for a service that streams videogames over the Internet, meaning players can avoid buying expensive consoles or packaged software. OnLive expects the...

— A study by Norwegian and French researchers hopes to provide new understanding of how blood cells adjust gene expression in response to various clinical, biochemical and pathological...

TOKYO, March 13 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Major sports events scheduled in Japan for Sunday, March 14: ATHLETICS Nagoya International Women's Marathon. Starts and finishes at Mizuho stadium, Nagoya....

Two weeks' paternity leave may not seem like much, but for Hironobu Narisawa, the 44-year-old mayor of a Tokyo district, it is a leap into the future for Japanese society. Next month he will become...

A Scottish whisky firm on Thursday unveiled bottles of what it claims is the oldest single malt whisky in the world, having spent the best part of a century inside an oak barrel. Gordon and...

Mets lost, 8-2, to Boston on Thursday, fans stood outside the gate where the players drive away from Tradition Field. After waiting patiently, enduring intermittent showers, the fans got the player...

survival plan in response to the question, “If you became the last person on Earth, what would you do? Realistically.” Eschuk’s vision is nothing if not realistic. We owe Web sites...

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BALTIMORE — Some infants headed for a diagnosis of autism, or autism spectrum disorder as it’s officially known, can be reliably identified at 14 months old based on the presence of five key...

dozens of tablets are scheduled to hit the market this year — from companies like Apple, HP and Dell, as well as upstarts like JooJoo — executives in the e-reader industry aren’t...

With UConn's women's basketball team breaking a major record and Kathryn Bigelow's Oscars, it has been a winning week for women. Judy Woodruff reports on another remarkable woman who is gaining...

Jim'll Fix It . I wrote to Jim saying, "My mum's parents are lost, they got lost on the road from India and left my mum behind. Can you find them and bring them to Birmingham, please?"A few weeks...

. Soccer--football to the rest of the world outside the U.S.--holds one of the most iconic and the most valuable sporting team brands: Manchester United. More valuable than baseball's New York...

EDMONTON — A handful of provincial sports groups charge the government’s plans to ramp back program funding could lead to fewer Alberta athletes taking up podium spots at future Olympic...

VANCOUVER — The day Paul Carson was to start his new job with Frank Gigliotti’s North Vancouver private winery California Cult Classics was the day Carson had been told by his doctor he’d been...

In 1959, a strapping young Trinidadian named Mike Quashie emigrated to New York and helped ignite the limbo dance craze. He became a darling of the city’s society set, a fixture of the downtown...

With the start of the Formula One season upon us, all eyes are on McLaren and its drivers, reigning world champion Jenson Button and former world champion Lewis Hamilton. But the attention...

Netflix is canceling its second $1 million Netflix Prize to settle a legal challenge that it breached customer privacy as part of the first contest’s race for a better movie-recommendation...

director Motomu Toriyama talked a bit about the development history of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game, showing the early screenshot pictured above. The battle system, Toriyama said, let players...

A fierce attempt to keep endangered Virginia big-eared bats alive in captivity has shown just how difficult that noble task may be. The effort was prompted by the discovery of white nose syndrome,...

Film-maker Jemima Harrison with a pedigree Bassett hound at this year's Crufts - She has become increasingly worried about the effects of inbreeding on pedigree...

On March 11, Japhy Grant a contributor to True/Slant, a news and opinion site, in a rant against the eco-conscious, non-vegans that are appalled by Santa Monica, California's whale sushi scandal made...

is the new fastest growing Facebook game this week, boosting into first place having only gone public on March 3. Playdom's latest game comes from the same stable that...

This week in health news was dominated by studies, rankings and new products addressing mental wellbeing by looking at marijuana, mood foods, new online survey, M-3, to measure risk for depression,...

Fashion TV was to be pulled off the air in India on Friday after falling foul of obscenity laws by broadcasting bare-breasted models during a show last year, officials said. The satellite channel...

Gary Greenberg is a psychotherapist who joined a clinical trial for an antidepressant at a time when he was mildly depressed. He was diagnosed as severely depressed, got better, and found that his...

Gaza . The British foreign secretary, David Milliband, had condemned the "unacceptable" loss of life caused by the Israeli strikes on Gaza, saying the "dark and dangerous" events could fuel...

Woman who attempted husband's mercy killing takes her own life in Dignitas clinic , 12 march). Nearly five years ago, my grandfather travelled to Zurich to die. Unable to face months of pain, coupled...

Wow, there's a lot going on. I had to steady myself on the back of a chair just reading your letter. I'm not really sure why you're being tarred as it's apparent, from the ages of the children, that...

Dear Carolyn: My live-in significant other makes fun of me a lot. It's never cruel and he never does it in front of other people, but it's exhausting, and especially after long days, he definitely...

This week’s panel Tony Farrelly is the former editor of ‘Cycling Plus’ magazine and now runs Road.cc, home to news and reviews for road-bound riders; Jeff Jones is editor...

1. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 2. Just Dance 3. Alien vs. Predator 4. Heavy Rain 5. Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing 6. Wii Fit Plus 7. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 ...

This week I'm writing about a recent break that I took to a wonderful rum distillery in Guyana. What with my tequila mission to Mexico last year, as well as quite a few wine trips abroad, it's true...