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Whether playing on a rugged pitch surrounded by armed guards in Nicaragua or Mexico City's altitude, former Werder Bremen captain Torsten Frings said on Friday he was enjoying his first season in the North American Major League Soccer.

South Korean youngster Noh Seung-yul overcame an injured ankle to hit a bogey-free round of 63 to trail U.S. Open champion Rory McIlroy by two strokes at the halfway stage of the $5 million Shanghai Masters Friday.

The Toronto Maple Leafs rallied for a 4-2 victory over the Rangers Thursday, taking advantage of two disallowed goals to ruin New York's chances of winning their home opener.

Marathon negotiations between National Basketball Association (NBA) owners and players failed to deliver a new labor agreement Thursday but both sides left negotiations vowing to continue talks to end the lockout.

The Texas Rangers are hoping to brush off their agonizing Game Six capitulation, when they were twice just one strike away from a maiden World Series crown, and return with renewed vigor for Friday's decider.

St Louis Cardinals hero David Freese said he was able to keep his emotions under control in Game Six of the World Series by remembering baseball, in its essence, is just a child's game.

David Freese homered in the 11th inning to cap an incredible comeback that lifted the St. Louis Cardinals to a 10-9 victory over the Texas Rangers late on Thursday and forced a decisive World Series Game Seven.

Salma Hayek has been many things: movie star, director, producer, wife and mother. On Friday, she adds clawless and lawless to that list as the fierce, female heroine Kitty Softpaws in new animated film, Puss in Boots.

Placido Domingo appeared at London's Royal Opera House in Covent Garden late Thursday both as a tenor and in his new guise as a baritone.

Spanish singer Placido Domingo marked his 40th anniversary at London's Royal Opera House with a gala concert late Thursday that was greeted with one of the longest and loudest curtain calls the venue has seen in years.

Michael Jackson was dependent on a painkiller that he received in large, regular shots, along with Botox treatments, in the months before his death, a Los Angeles court heard on Thursday.

Actor Charlie Sheen, fired from his previous role on TV's Two and a Half Men, will return to television in summer 2012, in his new Anger Management on FX, the network announced on Thursday.

Ay Carumba! Bart Simpson better watch out because there's a new kid on Fox competing for attention of TV fans on Sunday nights.

First, Lady Gaga wore a dress made of meat. Now, how about one made of lettuce?

Olympus Corp risks possible lawsuits unless a planned probe of acquisitions at the heart of a scandal engulfing the endoscope maker is truly independent, the head of the Tokyo Stock Exchange warned Friday.

World number six Martin Kaymer questioned the flag positions at the Andalucia Masters Thursday after finishing six strokes behind first-round leader Richie Ramsay of Britain.

Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler said on Thursday he was sober when he fell in the shower in his Paraguay hotel room earlier this week.

Justin Timberlake may be riding a new wave of movie stardom as his new film, In Time, sees its release in theaters on Friday, but the singer-dancer-actor still thinks he's an ordinary man.

Cutting Medicaid by 5 percent would cost U.S. states $14 billion and trigger job losses in the tens of thousands by depressing spending by states, hospitals, nursing homes, drug companies and others, a study said on Wednesday.

California political leaders chose a site near the headquarters of Solyndra to kick off hearings on how the state's growing cleantech industry can proceed in the wake of that solar company's dramatic collapse.

Rejuvenated Australian golfer Jason Day has set himself a target of reaching world number one in the next five years following his brilliant season on the U.S. PGA Tour, a far cry from his struggles to get out of bed earlier this year when plagued by mental demons and illness.

Title insurer First American Financial Corp posted third-quarter profit that missed market estimates, hurt by higher claims and lower orders.

Doctors in Oakland, California, struggled on Wednesday to save the life of an Iraq war veteran who became a rallying cry for the Occupy Wall Street movement after he was badly wounded in clashes between protesters and police.

Protecting Paris Hilton on the side could put you in danger of losing your real job.

Casey Anthony, the Florida mom acquitted in July of killing her child, has been voted the No. 2 creepiest celebrity, closely following shock rocker Marilyn Manson, according to a poll released on Thursday.

U.S. patent records point to a possible conflict of interest in an Olympus investment in a cookware company, raising more questions for investors demanding a full explanation from the Japanese company of acquisitions that made heavy losses.

Brazil's sports minister resigned on Wednesday over a corruption scandal, reviving concern about President Dilma Rousseff's unstable coalition and the country's lagging preparations for the 2014 soccer World Cup.

The judge overseeing the Los Angeles Dodgers bankruptcy postponed four days of hearings that would have helped determine if the team remained under the control of owner Frank McCourt.

Caroline Wozniacki celebrated in defeat on Wednesday after injured Russian Maria Sharapova's withdrawal from the season-ending WTA Championships made sure the Dane would end the year as world number one.