Chris Trotman/Getty Images Paula Radcliffe of Britain won New York for the third time in 2 hours 23 minutes 56 seconds. For elite runners, marathons are not unlike bank accounts. Only so many withdrawals can be made before the body exceeds the ...
A year ago, Justine Henin and Maria Sharapova played one of the best finals in the 36-year history of the women’s season-ending championships. Dima Korotayev/Epsilon Getty Images That match ...
Peter DaSilva Song-Hee Kim was second in the Samsung World Championship. The prospect of speaking with reporters in English made her panic. While waiting for her parents outside the pro shop, Song-Hee Kim took her sand wedge and bounced a ball off ...
Left, Adalberto Roque/AFP-Getty; Right, Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images Diego Maradona has struggled with drugs, alcohol and obesity in recent years, left. Argentina now hopes that he can lead the team back to victory. BUENOS AIRES — "Soccer has a god. That god ...
Ian Walton/Getty Images Ebbsfleet United’s fans — many of whom are also its owners — cheering on their team as it won the F.A. Trophy final in May. LONDON — Wembley Stadium is usually the stage for some of the most glamorous names ...
Chris Graythen/Getty Images Alabama quarterback John Parker Wilson made a throw over L.S.U.’s Harry Coleman. Wilson scored in overtime, leading the Crimson Tide to victory. BATON ROUGE, La. — Nick Saban had done his best to dodge the passion and ...
Ronald Martinez/Getty Images The Texas Tech quarterback Graham Harrell (6) completed 40 of 50 passes for 456 yards in Saturday’s game against Oklahoma State. LUBBOCK, Tex. — It is not easy to get to this dusty West Texas outpost. Only three commercial airlines ...
Josh Haner David Bowens, whose favorite movie comedy is “Kingpin,” said he would give Eric Mangini his truck if the coach beat him at bowling. LINDEN, N.J. — Bowling ball in hand, Jets linebacker David Bowens stands as far back in the lane ...
DANA POINT, Calif. — Manny Ramírez will turn 37 next season and is widely viewed as one of the great hitters in baseball as well as an amusing and confounding person when he does not have a bat in his hand. ...
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images If prices continue to plummet, the homes of about 19 million owners will be worth less than their underlying mortgages by 2010. In the government’s ever-morphing efforts to save the financial system, the moment when the nation’s homeowners get ...
Chris Hondros/Getty Images General Motors employees attended a seminar that offered job-seeking tips to soon-to-be unemployed workers. WHEN my husband’s company abruptly announced significant layoffs recently, he waited for three hours after he came home to tell me — until our ...
The global economic slump that has curbed energy demand and pushed oil prices down in recent months may provide only a short-lived respite for consumers, according to the world’s top energy forecaster. Jens Schlueter/Agence France-Presse ...
The top three European central banks cut interest rates Thursday in the face of increasingly dire evidence that much of Europe was moving into a serious recession. Thomas Lohnes/A.F.P. Getty Images ...
LOS ANGELES — Dark days have finally come to the Magic Kingdom. Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images Even as the weakening economy was hammering rival media conglomerates over the last year, the Walt Disney Company ...
Ahmad Zamroni/AFP/Getty Images Higher temperatures were found to cause water tables in bogs to drop and more peat to decompose. It’s increasingly clear that the effects of climate change will be felt — or are already being felt — in all corners ...
Behrouz Mehri/Agence France-Presse Getty Images Members of Parliament listened on Tuesday as the interior minister, Ali Kordan, made his case. They voted 188 to 45 to dismiss him over faked academic degrees. TEHRAN — The Iranian Parliament voted Tuesday to dismiss a ...
MADRID — One of Osama bin Laden’s sons, who made headlines last year when he married a British woman, is seeking asylum in Spain, the government said Tuesday. Amro Maraghni/A.F.P. Getty Images ...
Maxim Shipenkov/European Pressphoto Agency Russian soldiers in historical uniforms rehearsed Wednesday in Moscow for a parade on Friday. Nerves have been frayed because of financial problems and the recent war in Georgia. MOSCOW — President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia greeted his future ...
MOSCOW — A powerful explosion tore into a minibus in Russia’s tumultuous Caucasus region on Thursday, killing at least eight people in what investigators said might have been an act of terrorism, possibly by a female suicide bomber. ...
PARIS — Anxious about the economic impact of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, governments on both sides of the Atlantic are searching for ways to ward off a severe recession, or at least to shorten it. ...
Vano Shlamov/Agence France-Presse Getty Images Georgian forces fired rockets at South Ossetia in August. TBILISI, Georgia — Newly available accounts by independent military observers of the beginning of the war between Georgia and Russia this summer call into question the longstanding Georgian ...
LONDON — Only weeks after predictions of his political demise were making headlines, Prime Minister Gordon Brown bounced back with a by-election victory that had British political commentators revising forecasts on Friday of how the governing Labor Party might fare in the next general election. ...
BERLIN — The former hockey team of the Stasi, the feared East German secret police, has a new home. The team has moved from the eastern fringe of the city to a brand-new arena almost at the center, and its players now carve the ice and ...
BEIJING — Fifty-five Tibetans have received prison sentences for their actions in the March 14 ethnic riot that engulfed Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in western China, according to a senior Chinese official quoted Wednesday by Xinhua, the state news agency. ...
BEIJING — Hu Jia, a soft-spoken, bespectacled advocate for democracy and human rights in China, was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, Europe’s most prestigious human rights prize, on Thursday. The award was a pointed rebuke of China’s ruling Communist Party that came as ...
PARIS — Anxious about the economic impact of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, governments on both sides of the Atlantic are searching for ways to ward off a severe recession, or at least to shorten it. ...
NAIROBI, Kenya — As skirmishes continued to test a shaky cease-fire in eastern Congo on Sunday, southern African leaders agreed to send military advisers to the region immediately, and a peacekeeping force later if necessary. Jerome ...
Top Left, Elsa/Getty Images; Top Right, Sean M. Haffey/San Diego Union-Tribune; Center, Kiichiro Sato/Associated Press; Bottom Left, Steven Dunn/Getty Images; Bottom Middle, Michael Dwyer/Associated Press; Bottom Right, Paul Beaty/Associated Press. THE three women are all serious athletes, and they work together at ...
Camelbak brand water bottles hang on display at an outdoor supply store in Arcadia, California. US regulators underestimated health risks from bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical widely used in baby bottles and food containers, which has been linked to a number ...
A butcher arranges meat products at a grocery store in New York City. A steady diet of red meat makes the body more susceptible to a virulent form of intestinal bug that can cause bloody diarrhoea and even death, according to ...