Russia is reconsidering plans to introduce a major annual cycling race in 2014 after Katusha, the country’s top professional team, was dropped from the World Tour. Last week, the licence commission of the cycling’s world governing body (UCI) rejected Katusha’s application to compete in the top flight next year because of the team’s doping record ...
An American university student is the newMiss Universe, defeating dozens of contestants from six continents to bring the crown back to the U.S. after a drought of more than a decade. Twenty-year-old Olivia Culpo won the title Wednesday night at the Planet Hollywood casino on the Las Vegas Strip, replacing outgoing champion Leila Lopes of ...
“If a middle-aged or older man or woman can sit and rise from the floor using just one hand – or even better without the help of a hand – they are not only in the higher quartile of musculo-skeletal fitness but their survival prognosis is probably better than that of those unable to do ...
Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit” led the box office over the weekend with $84.6 million, a record-setting opening better than the three previous “Lord of the Rings” films. The 3-D Middle Earth epic, the first of three planned films adapted from J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel, was the biggest December opening ever, surpassing Will Smith’s “I Am Legend,” ...
Long before Christopher Chaney made headlines by hacking into the email accounts of such stars as Scarlett Johansson and Christina Aguilera, two other women say he harassed and stalked them online. The women, who both knew Chaney, say their lives have been irreparably damaged by his actions. One has anxiety and panic attacks; the other ...
Anti-virus software founder John McAfee said Thursday that U.S. authorities have made no efforts to question him since he arrived in Miami after weeks of evading Belizean authorities who want to ask him about the death of his neighbour. “Why would they want to question me, about what?” a tired-looking but sharply dressed McAfee said ...
A harrowing competition is underway in England, with billions of dollars and hundreds of lives at stake. OK, that’s not true. But competitors from around the world gathered on Thursday for the annual competition to crown the world’s biggest liar, Yahoo News reported. Each contestant is given up to five minutes to weave the best ...