SOUTH BEND, Ind. AP -- Jack Swarbrick graduated from Notre Dame the same year as the university president, yet the Rev. John Jenkins never heard of him until a few weeks ago. On Wednesday, Jenkins stood in a room atop the Hesburgh Library with a view over...
A new BBC2 thriller wants to charm us into taking notice of climate change. James Rampton reports from the set The makers of Burn Up knew from the outset that their drama would be a tough sell. The two-part BBC2 thriller by Simon Beaufoy, the writer of...
CHICAGO -- So why did officer Grace Delgado try to cross the road? To remind motorists that they must stop whenever someone steps off the curb into a crosswalk. In an unusual undercover operation, Delgado posed as a pedestrian on a busy street while fellow officers waited...
Dirk Nowitzki scored a tournament-high 35 points to lead Germany to an 89-71 victory over New Zealand on Wednesday at a qualifying tournament for the Beijing Olympics. Germany used a 17-3 run midway through the second quarter to take a 47-33 halftime lead. "Dirk...
The answer is usually blowing in the wind but this time it seems to be carried with greater momentum on the force that is "El Nio". In the absence of the Tiger, Sergio Garcia is being installed as a warm favourite for this year's Open. It is...
Sport IN BRIEF *The sprinter Katerina Thanou has been named in Greece's Olympic squad. Thanou, 33, served a two-year ban after missing a doping test before the 2004 Athens Olympics. She and fellow Greek sprinter Kostas Kenteris were accused of staging a motorcycle accident after missing the...
Sport IN BRIEF *The sprinter Katerina Thanou has been named in Greece's Olympic squad. Thanou, 33, served a two-year ban after missing a doping test before the 2004 Athens Olympics. She and fellow Greek sprinter Kostas Kenteris were accused of staging a motorcycle accident after missing the...
The answer is usually blowing in the wind but this time it seems to be carried with greater momentum on the force that is "El Nio". In the absence of the Tiger, Sergio Garcia is being installed as a warm favourite for this year's Open. It is...
NEW YORK -- When Francisco Rodriguez went to his first All-Star Game in 2004, nothing was more important to him than getting to spend time with Mariano Rivera. That's the first thing Joakim Soria did this year. Rodriguez, the Los Angeles Angels' closer, is back for...
Firefighter Mike Haller snuggles a small cat after it was pulled from an apartment fire in Chehalis Valley Apartments in Chehalis, Wash., Monday. A bird and small rodent were also rescued by fellow fireman Derek Paul as he searched the smoke-filled apartments. The fire's cause is still under investigation...
Former White House strategist Karl Rove may be trying some new political tricks to help fellow Republican Mitt Romney secure the party's vice presidential nomination. Rove, who left his post as a top adviser to President Bush last year and now serves as a commentator for Fox...
FOIX, France AFP — World cycling chief Pat McQuaid has called on the Spanish authorities to increase their efforts in the fight against doping after the latest doping affair at the Tour de France. Moises Duenas of the Barloworld team became the second Spaniard to leave the race...
ROME AFP — New AC Milan signing Ronaldinho on Wednesday said he was delighted to have completed his 18.5 million euros move from Barcelona. The Brazilian was rushed from Milan's Malpensa airport to meet his new teammates ahead of the start of their pre-season training and he told...
NEW YORK -- Former NBA referee Tim Donaghy made more than 100 phone calls to a fellow official at the same time he was providing information to gamblers during the 2006-07 season, Fox News reported Monday. Citing court documents and phone records it obtained, Fox reported Donaghy...
THE CLEANER. 10 tonight, A&E. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - There's nothing very clean-looking about Benjamin Bratt in tonight's premiere of "The Cleaner," a drama from A&E in which Bratt plays an addict who's turned his life around and dedicated it to saving others by performing extreme interventions. Looking for the...
We have always been particularly proud of the illustrations that appear on AFP covers, within its articles, and in patient handouts. We rarely, however, have opportunity to recognize the group of professional medical illustrators who are responsible for this art. This group of artists, listed below, is led by Dave...
Two prominent physicians were injured over the weekend - one critically - when the motor scooter they were riding was struck by an SUV in Bryn Mawr, police said. Dr. Allan Frederick Moore, 31, and his wife, Dr. Rebekah Elizabeth Gee, 32, were on a red Vespa on Roberts Road...
BOSTON, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- CityVoter.com, the leading social platform for the insider's scoop, today announced that CEO Josh Walker has been invited to speak at Search Engine Marketing Expo's "SMX Local & Mobile" (http://searchmarketingexpo.com/local), which takes place July 24-25 in San Francisco. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070628/NETH083 ) ...
