Six months after she nearly died, Serena Williams is closing in on what could be the greatest achievement of her incredible career.
The United States won the women's 4x100 meters relay title at the world championships on Sunday, Carmelita Jeter bringing the anchor leg home in a time of 41.56.
Nobody on the road, nobody on the beach; you can feel it at the box office, the summer's out of reach.
Vandals defaced a monument to victims of a World War Two pogrom against Jews in Poland, covering it with racist inscriptions and swastikas in green paint, police said on Thursday.
Given his genes and his famous name, the urge to jump the net must have been almost irresistible for the young man who just won his first grand slam match at the U.S. Open on Tuesday.
Consumer goods group Unilever
expects to see three-quarters of its turnover from emerging markets by 2020 as heavy investment in these fast-growing regions and sluggish growth elsewhere take effect.A black-market baby-selling operation that preyed on wealthy women has been broken up by the FBI, assisted by key evidence provided by socialite Taylor Stein, who had been deceived by the ring when she bought her son.
China's first aircraft carrier, Varyag, has concluded its four-day sea trial and sailed back to the Dalian port.
Serena Williams may be reinvigorated for the U.S. Open
Ukraine, whose government estimates it has 2,500 to 3,00 tons of gold, will start large-scale mining for the precious metal to cash in on "the radical growth of the world price of gold," the State Service of Geology and Mineral Resources of Ukraine said Wednesday.
China's first aircraft carrier -- which attracted worldwide attention among fears that the second-largest economic powerhouse in the world is rapidly bolstering its military powers -- set sail on Wednesday for its sea trial.
The Tsunami generated by the powerful earthquake that shook Japan on March 11 sent waves an entire hemisphere away that sliced off about 50 square miles of icebergs in Antarctica that were twice the surface area of Manhattan, NASA scientists say. Kelly Brunt, a cryosphere specialist at Goddard Space Flight Center, and her colleagues were able to link the calving of icebergs from the Sulzberger Ice Shelf in Antarctica following tsunami that sent waves 8,100 miles away.
NASA scientists were able to observe for the first time the powerful force of an earthquake as it calved off large icebergs a full hemisphere away from the epicenter.
A judge Monday refused to release former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko from police detention, increasing political tension around her trial on a charge of abuse of office.
Vibrations from the devastating earthquake that hit Japan in March 2011, triggering a massive tsunami, had almost reached the outer space, a new study has revealed.
Outback Australian farmers - hardened from dealing with extreme weather, fires and pests - now have to wrestle with modern trading tools and technology after a tough day tilling the land as they adapt to the rigors of a deregulated market.
Ashton Carter nominated by Obama as new deputy secretary of defense.
The saga that is the Yulia Tymoshenko case continues
Both sides are vehemently vocal at the corruption trial of Tymoshenko in the Ukrainian capital.
China is building two aircraft carriers as part of a military modernization program that is causing concern among other Asian countries, sources said on Wednesday.
Norwegian killer Anders Behring Breivik has caused potential embarrassment for Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin by describing him as worthy of respect and one of the two men he would most like to meet.
Singer was reportedly wearing her wedding ring
