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MLS All-Stars top Chelsea 3-2 in exhibition game
Fans stuffed the parking lots hours before the All-Star game, tailgating and having a blast until they could rush inside PPL Park to bang drums, sing ...
International audition: Romney faces high stakes
Mitt Romney — a one-term governor untested on the world's political stage — faces high stakes in the coming week during visits to England, Israel and ...
Organizers display SKorea flag instead of NKorea
London Olympic organizers mistakenly displayed the South Korean flag on a jumbo screen instead of North Korea's before a women's soccer match ...
Munich widows call for Olympic ceremony protest
The widows of two Israeli Olympians killed by Palestinian gunmen at the 1972 Munich Olympics are urging spectators to stage a silent protest during ...
Clinton urges IOC to commemorate Munich massacre
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is calling on the International Olympic Committee to commemorate the massacre of Israeli athletes by ...
UK scrambles fighter jet after plane loses contact
Britain's Ministry of Defense scrambled a Typhoon fighter jet Wednesday after an airplane lost contact with air traffic controllers. The move comes ...
Fencing champ Zagunis to be US Olympic flag bearer
Two-time Olympic fencing champion Mariel Zagunis will carry the U.S. flag in the opening ceremony of the London Games. The U.S. Olympic Committee says ...
'Oy tink': Primer on British English for Americans
It took me over two years to understand English — and I am American. Americans arriving for the London Olympics will find that the chasm between ...
UK watchdog: Stop recording taxi conversations
Britain's information watchdog on Wednesday ordered a city council to stop the mandatory recording of people's conversations in taxis, saying the ...
NBC tops $1 billion in Olympics ad sales
NBC said Wednesday that it has topped the $1 billion mark in advertising sales for the Olympic Games beginning this week in London. That tops the $850 ...
Blair warns of divisions in a post-Assad Syria
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday that the West must do all it can to persuade Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down but ...
Harry Potter star Grint carries Olympic flame
Ronald Weasley certainly recognizes a goblet of fire. Rupert Grint — who played Ron in the famous Harry Potter films — lent a touch of Hogwarts magic ...
France committed to improving NASCAR racing
NASCAR chairman Brian France doesn't buy the argument that if it isn't broke, don't fix it. France said he is committed to ensuring the series has the ...
Olympic VIP lanes baffle, anger London drivers
London 2012: Traffic jams on the roads, train problems underground, and a fancy cable car frozen in the air. Wednesday saw an uncertain test of the ...
London cable car breaks down, stranding passengers
Cable car passengers got plenty of time to view London's sights after the system linking two Olympic venues broke down and left them stranded above ...
Roman holiday: UK boy, 11, flies without passport
The 11-year-old boy didn't have a passport, didn't have a ticket, didn't have a boarding pass, and got all the way from England to Italy on his own.
US men's basketball unbeaten, says not unbeatable
The question sounded more like a concession. The U.S. men's Olympic basketball team had come to Barcelona and put a 100-78 beating on Spain, the ...
Architects faced double challenge for London 2012
When the world tunes in for the London Olympics opening ceremony Friday night, viewers will judge the new Olympic Park on whether it provides a ...
EYES ON LONDON: Elevated queen, giving up Twitter
Around the 2012 Olympics and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of the games to you: ___ THE ...
British union calls off pre-Olympics border strike
A union on Wednesday called off a pre-Olympics strike by immigration staff at London's Heathrow Airport, a relief to government officials who sued to ...
Hitachi wins contract for UK inter-city trains
Japanese machinery maker Hitachi won a 4.5 billion pound ($7 billion) deal with the British government to build and maintain trains that will connect ...
Queen to visit top of Orbit tower at Olympic Park
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is about to scale new heights. Royal officials say the queen will whizz to the top of London's Orbit tower during a visit ...
US beats Spain 100-78 in basketball exhibition
There is no exhibition game gold medal. The only prize was some player of the game award LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony shared. Not counting doesn't ...