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Usain Bolt got the party started in Jamaica when he smashed the 100m world record on Sunday. It seems that party shows no signs of stopping after adding the 200m gold in record time on Thursday night.

The CIA hired contractors from Blackwater USA in 2004 as part of a secret program to kill top-level members of al-Qaida, but a spokesman says it never resulted in the capture or killing of any suspects. It was unclear whether the CIA planned to use the contractors to kill al-Qaida members or just to help with training.

Reuters - Powerful Hurricane Bill, a dangerous Category 4 storm with 135 mph winds, raged across the open Atlantic on Wednesday, days from land but on a path that could menace Canada's eastern provinces next week.

In the glut of site-specific work at this year's Fringe, there is surely no finer match-up of site and subject than Barflies, a journey through Charles Bukowski's most liver-bruising drinking tales set in a boozer at the bottom end of Broughton Street.

The general rule in theatre is that the more serious the piece, the more riotous the times had by the cast. The grim self-absorption of West End Wendys contrasts starkly with the glorious silliness of the average Dame or Knight. So, following this theory, it's no surprise that A British Subject, the true story of the final days of Mirza Tahir Hussain on a Pakistani death row and the campaign to save him has given us, the cast, more laughs than Paul Merton's stand up.

John Hughes, the writer, director, and producer whose movies defined adolescence for audiences who came of age in the 1980s and whose smart, sympathetic characters endure as icons of the “Brat Pack’’ generation, died yesterday at the age of 59.

A new Army program is intended to prevent problems like post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.

The Panamanian authorities seized more than 650 kg of cocaine during two operations by anti-drug agents during the weekend, the Drugs Prosecutor's Office said on Monday. First Drugs Prosecutor Javier Caraballo said they found 150 kg of cocaine packed in 247 packs during a raid on a building in Panama City. During the action, they also detained three Colombians and two Panamanians who had two cars to transport the drug, Caraballo said. Meanwhile, in a joint operation by th ...

A suicide bomber exploded a truck at a police station in Russia’s restive North Caucasus Monday, killing at least seven people and wounding dozens of others, officials said.

Health insurance cooperatives aren't a new idea, but they are now the likeliest alternative to a public insurance option.

Macworld.com - The real question in the wake of Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s recent departure from Apple’s board of directors is yet to be answered. And that’s who will take his position as shortstop at the annual board of directors vs. Apple executive team softball game. Word is Apple’s board is eyeing several prospective candidates to fill the coveted roster slot.

Those who enjoyed The Curious Case of Benjamin Button may like to turn next to The Time Traveler's Wife.

A tense second half ended the way most U.S.-Mexico encounters at Azteca have: El Tri were victorious.

With the U.S. economy improving, Federal Reserve policymakers will consider whether some programs intended to ease the recession and stem the financial crisis should be extended.

Tiger Woods will be fined by the PGA Tour for his public criticism of a rules official after winning the Bridgestone Invitational, a tour official said.

United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited South Africa's former president Nelson Mandela at his office in Houghton, Johannesburg on Friday afternoon, said the Nelson Mandela Foundation. Clinton and Mandela spent 30 minutes in private conversation before she toured the Nelson Mandela Foundation Center of Memory and Dialogue, the foundation said in a statement. "I'm delighted, doubly because I had a chance to see Madiba today, but I also got to see the archives and s ...

Turkey's main opposition leader Deniz Baykal on Wednesday accused Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of indirectly talking with the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) by meeting officials of the Kurdish-supporting Democratic Society Party (DTP), Turkey's private NTV reported. Baykal, leader of the Republican People's Party (CHP), said in a NTV live program that "the interlocutor of Erdogan's meeting with DTP officials was no doubt the PKK." Baykal's words came after E ...

Singapore has launched an idea generation and software development contest, aimed at expanding mobile lifestyle applications with the use of intelligent software. Called the MOBiE-Odai, the contest is co-organized by Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), together with Hitachi Asia Ltd, according to statements by the two companies on Thursday. The contest aims to challenge participants to be creative, innovative and resourceful in exploring the use of t ...

Five police with Afghan National Police (ANP) were killed and three others were wounded as their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Taliban stronghold Helmand province of south Afghanistan, said a statement of Interior Ministry issued on Thursday. "It was at 08:15 a.m. local time (0345 GMT) today, when a mine exploded in Nad Ali district of Helmand province killing five police with ANP and wounding three others," the statement said. The statement put the attack on enemy of Afghanista ...

KENNY EGAN was the only Irish boxer to lose on Saturday night as Ireland came out on top in an international round-robin tournament at the National Stadium in Dublin.