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United States team member David Toms has defended captain Fred Couples's faith in Tiger Woods for next month's Presidents Cup, following a barrage of criticism over the struggling former world number one's selection.

There is renewed optimism the NBA season could soon resume after players and owners spent more than 10 hours locked in discussions on Wednesday about reaching a labor agreement.

Game Six of the World Series between the Texas Rangers and the St. Louis Cardinals has been postponed due to rain in the forecast, Major League Baseball (MLB) said Wednesday.

Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington said Wednesday's weather postponement would not affect his plans to start Matt Harrison should there be a Game Seven decider in the World Series.

St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa was not singing the blues over Wednesday's World Series postponement as the extra day meant he could likely use ace Chris Carpenter in a Game Seven.

British singer Adele regained the top spot on the Billboard Top 200 album chart on Wednesday, marking her 13th week at No. 1 with 21 and making it the first album since the Titanic film soundtrack to claim as many weeks atop the chart.

By his own admission, when Kid Rock gets some free time and no responsibility, he's a dangerous man -- albeit one with a charitable heart.

We Need to Talk About Kevin, an unflinching portrayal of a mother's troubled relationship with her son starring Oscar winner Tilda Swinton, won the London film festival's best picture award on Wednesday.

Hollywood star Bruce Willis and his wife, designer and model Emma Heming, are expecting their first child together, Willis' spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

Chaz Bono may have been booted off Dancing With the Stars this week, but he will be back on television next month in a second documentary on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) about his life as a transgender man.

Olympus Corp's shares surged in brisk trade on Thursday after its chairman and president quit and his successor said he would explain past M&A deals at the heart of a scandal that wiped out half of the firm's market value.

Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Jeff Bezos is thumbing his nose at Wall Street again and some investors don't like it.

The National Security Agency, a secretive arm of the U.S. military, has begun providing Wall Street banks with intelligence on foreign hackers, a sign of growing U.S. fears of financial sabotage.

With both Formula One championships already wrapped up by Sebastian Vettel and his Red Bull team, India takes the starring role on its long-awaited grand prix debut this weekend.

Seven families whose house were destroyed in the May 22 tornado in Joplin, Missouri, will get new homes on Wednesday, thanks to volunteer labor and donated materials and ABC's Extreme Makeover.

Taking a break from his blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean movies, Johnny Depp turns to a low-key role for his new project: starring in and producing The Rum Diary.

SAP said it would consider buying back shares to return cash to shareholders, sparking a skeptical response from analysts who said they would rather see the world's biggest maker of business software spend money on acquisitions.

Nintendo Co is expected to post a recurring loss of about 100 billion yen ($1.32 billion) in the first half ending on September 30, much worse than the 55 billion loss the company has forecast, the Nikkei business daily said on Wednesday.

The Obama administration is seeking to seize almost $71 million in allegedly corrupt assets from the son of the leader of Equatorial Guinea, including $1.8 million worth of pop star Michael Jackson memorabilia.

President Barack Obama took issue on Tuesday with the broadcasting of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's bloody demise, saying even those who had done terrible things deserved decorum in death.

The cost of college in the United States rose sharply for the 2011-2012 school year, continuing a multiyear pattern in which public school increases outpaced private school hikes and both eclipsed the average rate of inflation by significant amounts, the College Board reported on Wednesday.

In the absence of Jamaica's giant world record holder and Olympic champion Usain Bolt, compatriot Lerone Clarke won the Pan-American Games 100 meters in a time of 10.01 seconds on Tuesday.

Pitching star Roger Clemens on Tuesday asked a federal judge to make the government pay for some of his legal tab in his steroids case after a mistrial was declared because of a miscue by prosecutors.

After being burned by Albert Pujols in record-setting fashion, Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington is making no excuses for being cautious.

The Pittsburgh Penguins received a welcome return from Evgeni Malkin and a shutout performance from goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury as they posted a 3-0 victory over the New York Islanders on Tuesday.

One day later, St. Louis manager Tony La Russa was still trying to explain the unraveling of the Cardinals in Monday's Game Five loss that left them on the brink of elimination in the World Series.

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Veteran television commentator Andy Rooney, who earlier this month at age 92 took his final bow on the CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes, has been hospitalized due to complications from surgery, the network said on Tuesday.

Action movie star Sylvester Stallone is accused in a lawsuit of copying another writer's screenplay to make The Expendables, a movie about mercenaries hired to defeat a military dictator.