Brittney Griner, center for Baylor University's Lady Bears team, was awarded two ESPYs. Griner's award comes on the heels of Baylor's second NCAA basketball crown and the first 40-0 season in the history of college basketball. Griner, a three-time All-American, has also been named the AP Player of the Year and the most Valuable Player in the final Four.
The Los Angeles Lakers twitter feed sent out pictures of their new point guard donning the purple and gold.
Under its new proposed rules for the state program, doctors and clinic affiliates would be barred from promoting abortion services to patients.
The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives, on a near party-line vote of 244-185, passed a bill on Wednesday to repeal President Barack Obama's overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system.
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has said that he will respect a court ruling that overturned his attempt to reinstate the lower house of Parliament, which had been dissolved by the Military Council last month prior to the Islamist leader's election victory.
The NBA's latest trade news and signings hearken back to the 1990s, with veterans like Jerry Stackhouse, Rashard Wallace, Ray Allen, Steve Nash, Jason Kidd, Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan dominating headlines.
Mac Miller is facing a $10 million lawsuit from Lord Finesse, who is claiming the 20-year-old rapper stole the instrumental from his 1995 hit Hip 2 Da Game to launch his hip-hop career, and the two entertainers have taken to Twitter to explain their sides of the beef.
More than 100 Indian laborers are trapped in Bahrain over a wage dispute with Nass Corporation. Some have no money to support their families in India and no hope of escape.
U.N. peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo are being redeployed to Goma as a rebel group advances toward the city.
An analysis of the contender's for this year's U.S. Open, as well as who might prosper during the U.S. Open Series.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel proposed on Tuesday a measure that would prohibit police officers from turning undocumented immigrants over to federal authorities if the immigrants had not committed crimes.
Nadya Suleman, better known as Ocotmom, is reportedly being sued for backing out of a deal that had her set to dance at a Florida strip club. According to USAToday, the mother of 14 is now facing a lawsuit after she doubled back on a signed contract that said she would dance topless in eight shows at T's Lounge in West Palm Beach.
After a two year battle attracting animal activists from all over the world by his owner Carolina Barnes, a seven-year-old dog named Lennox was put to sleep on Wednesday having been deemed as a threat to public safety by the Belfast city council despite an online petition to save the dog. View the slideshow to see photos of Lennox.
Financial professionals reeled Wednesday after the now-collapsed futures merchant PFG (Peregrine Financial Group Inc.), whose troubles bear an unnerving similarity to MF Global's woes, left as much as $200 million unaccounted for and PFG clients kicking themselves for ignoring the warning signs.
Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) swiftly overruled Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's order to reconvene the parliament, intensifying the confrontation between the newly elected president and the judiciary, which is believed to be acting in the interests of the backers of Mubarak regime and the ruling military-led Supreme Council.
Sprint variant of the Samsung Galaxy S3 has reportedly received an OTA update because of which users of the device won't be able to use the Google search bar on the homescreen to find their apps, contacts and other data. Only web-based results return now when we search with that method.
The Nigerian Supreme Court ruled that the sale of a Nigerian aluminum enterprise to Russian conglomerate RUSAL was in fact illegal. Instead, Nigeria's ALSCON should have gone to the original highest bidder: a U.S. firm called BFI.
MCX Stock Exchange (MCX-SX) is all set to become India's third full-fledged stock exchange as it got license from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to trade in new asset classes, including equities, futures and options and other products.
Most European markets fell Wednesday as investor sentiment remained fragile following concerns of the worsening economic condition in the euro zone to hurt quarterly earnings of companies.
Tonee Walker, the 22-year-old Buxom Bandit who held up a gas station in Australia, has turned herself in to police. Walker gained the Buxom Bandit nickname by taking down the gas station while wearing a low-cut top and showing off her larger-than-life breasts.
The tenants at Fred Wigg filed a lawsuit to prevent the installation, citing, among other things, that they themselves would become the target of terrorists.
The late King Hussein of Jordan titled his autobiography ?Uneasy Lies the Head.? That could be the title Thorsten Heins, CEO of Research in Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM), the ailing BlackBerry developer, could use for his book, too.
