IndyCar driver Dan Wheldon died from severe injuries Sunday in a blazing 15-car crash at Las Vegas Motor Speedway caught on video when his car flew over another on lap 13 and smashed into the wall just outside turn two in the Las Vegas Indy 300, the final race of the IndayCar season.
The British racing star was unable to survive the serious injuries
Global miner Rio Tinto plans to sell 13 aluminum assets, trimming the business it expanded with the badly timed $39 billion acquisition of Alcan four years ago as it tries to boost the division's performance, it said on Monday.
British youngster Tom Lewis won the Portugal Masters Sunday to earn a European Tour exemption in only his third event as a professional.
Britain's Paul Casey withdrew before the start of Saturday's third round of the McGladrey Classic at St. Simons Island in Georgia because of a stomach ailment, effectively costing him his PGA Tour card for next season.
Lady Gaga won an injunction at London's High Court on Monday to stop Lady Goo Goo, an animated character from releasing a single.
The Occupy Wall Street protest movement in the United States represents the arrival of a global wave of social and political turmoil, according to economist Nouriel "Dr. Doom" Roubini.
Those attending the London protests appeared to be students, unemployed college graduates, elderly pensioners and even passing tourists.
The world's leading economies kept pressure firmly on Europe to sort out its debt crisis on Saturday with the sense of urgency to be reflected in a communique at the end of a G20 finance chiefs' meeting.
Finance ministers and central bankers from the world's top economies are set to back mandatory capital surcharges on big lenders of as much as 2.5 percent to be phased in beginning in 2016.
Two elite clubs battle at Anfield.
Follow the live coverage as Liverpool and Manchester United will resume their age-old rivalry when they meet at Anfield in Saturday's early kick-off.
Follow the live coverage as Liverpool and Manchester United will resume their age-old rivalry when they meet at Anfield in Saturday's early kick-off.
The Premier League returns after the international break with arch-rivals Liverpool and Manchester United battling it out in the early kick-off on Saturday.
It was 68 degrees by 8:00 in the morning Friday, but the loyal fans who had lined up outside the Apple Store at 1 Stockton Street in San Francisco had already braved (slightly) less hospitable temperatures.
Calpers, the biggest U.S. public pension fund, said Friday it would withhold its votes for the re-election of Rupert Murdoch and sons James and Lachlan to the News Corp. board of directors.
Calpers, the biggest U.S. public pension fund, said on Friday it would withhold its votes for the reelection of Rupert Murdoch and sons James and Lachlan to the News Corp board of directors.
The Reds host Manchester United.
James is part owner of Liverpool FC
Hermes is following in the footsteps of two other shareholder advisory groups that have also recommended that certain members of the Murdoch family (and others) be removed from the board of directors.
Obese girls are up to nine times more likely to develop SBP than non-obese girls.
Two famed clubs battle it out at Anfield.
