MIAMI (Reuters) - Curt Gowdy, one of the best known voices to a generation of U.S. sports fans and a longtime broadcaster for the Boston Red Sox, died on Monday at 86.
SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - Irish rock group U2 gave a lesson in human rights and urged Brazilians to help end poverty in their country in a spectacular concert on Monday night at a Sao Paulo soccer stadium.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Orleans' Times-Picayune newspaper won a prestigious George Polk award in journalism for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina while its
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A pack of gallant sled dogs mushed the Walt Disney Co.'s Antarctic adventure "Eight Below" to the top of the North American box office over the four-day holiday weekend, according to studio estimates on Monday.
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch saw a Web site with monster growth potential in MySpace.com, the online music and dating phenomenon that makes it
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence agencies have been secretly removing from public access at the National Archives thousands of historical documents that
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The emotional debate over embryonic stem-cell research has sharply split the Republican Party and could become a prominent election-year issue, with
MANILA (Reuters) - Hundreds of people were feared dead in the central Philippines after mudslides triggered by heavy rains buried houses and an elementary
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush asked Congress on Thursday for $72.4 billion in emergency funds for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fraud and abuse in the emergency response to Hurricane Katrina cost U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars, government investigators told a Senate panel on Monday ahead of a congressional report that faults the government's handling of the disaster that killed more than 1,300 people.
BOSTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush's signature education policy has in some cases benefited white middle-class children over blacks and other minorities in poorer regions, a Harvard University study showed on Tuesday.