AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Lady Gaga kicked off 24 hours in the spotlight at South By Southwest in typically memorable fashion. The pop provocateur began her appearance at Stubb’s BBQ on Thursday night during the annual music festival and conference
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The first two times that Baylor played Oklahoma this season, the Bears struggled through the opening minutes and failed to get on track until it was a bit too late. This time, they delivered the
Veteran left-wing politician Tony Benn, a former Labour cabinet minister in the 1960s and 1970s, has died aged 88, his family said Friday. “It is with great sadness that we announce that our father Tony Benn died peacefully early this
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Niels Giffey scored a career-high 24 points, hitting six 3-pointers, as No. 21 UConn finished off a season sweep of 19th-ranked Memphis by routing the Tigers 73-53 Thursday night in the quarterfinals of the American Athletic
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has accused one of his main rivals, Mohammed Dahlan, of involvement in six murders, hinting that he might also be behind the death of former leader Yasser Arafat.
NEW YORK (AP) — The latest buzzer-beater at the Big East tournament belongs to a Seton Hall reserve with a familiar last name. Sterling Gibbs hit a step-back jumper as time expired and Seton Hall stunned No. 3 Villanova 64-63
Comic actor Seth Rogen is showing his serious side these days, and the latest target of his sober commentary is pop sensation Justin Bieber. Late last month, Rogen testified before a Senate committee on the need to battle Alzheimer’s Disease.
Robin Williams returned to television last fall, a by product of too many movie flops and bills. Now, with CBS hemming on a second season of The Crazy Ones, it could mean Williams’ TV reunion will be short-lived. The comedian’s
The Daily Mail reports that U.S. military officials reportedly believe missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 may have gone done in the Indian Ocean rather than the South China Sea and may begin searching the area: The mystery surrounding the fate of
Chip Kelly got another versatile playmaker for his offense. The Philadelphia Eagles acquired running back Darren Sproles from the New Orleans Saints for a fifth-round draft pick on Tuesday. The Eagles also agreed on a two-year contract with former Dolphins
(AFP) The sexual lyrics of “Honky Tonk Women” were apparently too much for China’s Communist fathers as the Rolling Stones said the chart-topping song was “vetoed” for their second ever show in the country on Wednesday. “About now we’d usually
Lindsay Lohan is back in the news, although this time the troubled starlet isn’t breaking the law–unless kissing and telling can be considered a crime. In Touch has exclusively obtained a shocking list, penned in Lindsay Lohan’s handwriting, exposing 36 of her famous
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Jets have agreed to terms with former Denver Broncos wide receiver Eric Decker, considered by many the top free agent at his position. Decker spent all day Wednesday at the Jets’ facility and
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A suspected drunken driver fleeing police crashed through barricades at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, slamming into a crowd outside a nightclub and killing a man and woman on a moped early Thursday, police
The captain of a missing Malaysian jet is said to be an engineering buff who assembled his own flight simulator, while friends of the co-pilot are defending his reputation after one report portrayed him as a cockpit Casanova. Malaysian Airlines
Search planes have found no trace of a missing Malaysian airliner near the site where Chinese satellites spotted floating objects, officials said Thursday. Two Vietnamese aircraft sent to inspect areas nearby “have returned and we found nothing so far”, Civil
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Prosecutors in Oscar Pistorius’ murder trial on Thursday displayed a sequence of photos showing the blood stains found on the floors, walls, stairs and chairs in the athlete’s house after he fatally shot his girlfriend.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Gaza militants resumed their rocket fire toward Israel on Thursday, striking the outskirts of two major cities a day after launching the largest barrage since an eight-day Israeli offensive in late 2012. Thursday’s attacks set off air-raid
CAIRO (AP) — Masked gunmen opened fire on an army bus in Cairo on Thursday, killing one soldier and wounding three in a rare attack on troops in the Egyptian capital, security officials and a military spokesman said. The bus,
MIAMI (AP) — Something about facing the Miami Heat still brings out the best in Paul Pierce. Jason Kidd isn’t half-bad against them, either. Pierce scored 17 of his 29 points in the third quarter and delivered two crucial scores
BEIJING (AP) — China’s official Xinhua News Agency says a government website has images of suspected debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane. The report says the satellite images from the morning of March 9 appear to show “three suspected
The US Capitol building and other iconic Washington landmarks briefly went dark as powerful wind gusts also caused tens of thousands of people in the area to lose power. Winds were gusting at 47 miles (76 kilometers) per hour in
TEHRAN, March 12 (UPI) —Iran said Wednesday it has negotiated a preliminary deal for Russia’s Rosatom nuclear power company to provide it with two more nuclear power generating units. Behrouz Kamalvandi, a spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran,
Even the country’s views on the just-wrapped Oscar season can be broken down by ideology. A new study of registered voters by Public Policy Polling focused on the Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave reveals a partisan component to
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Satellite images on a Chinese government website show suspected debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner floating off the southern tip of Vietnam, near the plane’s original flight path, China’s Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday.
