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Newspapers around the world run with Pistorius
Photographs of Oscar Pistorius, some with a gray hood covering his head and others with him running in the Olympic Stadium in London, were splashed ...
Pistorius lived out dream by running at Olympics
The figure of Oscar Pistorius racing around the Olympic track with his carbon-fiber blades whipping through the air was one of the enduring images of ...
Runner's Twitter feed is a long victory lap
Since captivating the world with his groundbreaking Olympic trip to London, Oscar Pistorius' life seemed like an extended victory lap. More than ...
US legal scholar Ronald Dworkin dies in UK at 81
American philosopher and constitutional law expert Ronald Dworkin, a liberal scholar who argued that the law should be founded on moral integrity, has ...
News of Pistorius leaves many in disbelief
Out in the small Italian town of Gemona, among many places around the world, the arrest of Oscar Pistorius on murder charges was hard to believe.
Body slam for wrestling: Sport cut from Olympics
For wrestling, this may have been the ultimate body slam: getting tossed out of the Olympic rings. The vote Tuesday by the IOC's executive board ...
Wrestling body reacts to Olympic rejection
Wrestling officials called Tuesday's decision to drop the sport from the Olympic program an "aberration" against a founding event. Known by its French ...
UK regulator fines UBS over investment funds
Britain's financial regulator fined Swiss bank UBS 9.45 million pounds ($14.8 million) Tuesday for exposing customers to unacceptable risk in the ...
CEO of scandal-ridden UK bank sets new tone
Be honest. Or be gone. That's the message from the new chief executive at Barclays, the British bank that paid a $453 million fine for manipulating ...
Fox attacks 4-week-old baby boy at London home
A 4-week-old baby has been attacked by a fox in his home in London, police said Sunday. The baby boy was admitted to a hospital Wednesday after the ...
IOC to drop 1 sport; modern pentathlon on hot seat
Removing a sport from the Olympics is one of the IOC's most sensitive tasks. After months of evaluation, a decision will come next week.
Saga of speeding politician rivets Britain
It was just a speeding ticket. But a British politician's need for speed, and what he did next, now look like acts of hubris that have destroyed a ...
Modigliani portrait sells for $42M in London
The high-end art market is weathering Europe's economic storm, with London auctions this week netting more than 280 million pounds ($440 million) as ...
London 'Micrarium' aims to showcase tiny animals
They're minuscule, there are millions of them, and one museum manager says they're massively under-represented. Jack Ashby, who is in charge of the ...
Pianist's music fails to put tortoises in the mood
No wonder they're endangered. Galapagos tortoises at London's zoo lumbered around impassively as famous French pianist Richard Clayderman serenaded ...
Freeborn, makeup artist behind Yoda, dies at 98
Stuart Freeborn, a pioneering movie makeup artist behind creatures such as Yoda and Chewbacca in the "Star Wars" films, has died. He was 98.
Fines levied against RBS in rate-fixing scandal
Britain's Royal Bank of Scotland became the third major bank to be caught up in a global probe of interest rate manipulation Wednesday, but what makes ...
Picasso portrait fetches near $45M at auction
A Picasso painting of his muse has fetched 28.6 million pounds ($44.9 million) at a London auction. The 1932 work, "Femme Assise Pres d'une Fenetre ...
Lawsuits contribute to big UBS loss in Q4
Switzerland's biggest bank, UBS AG, posted Tuesday a 1.9 billion francs ($2.1 billion) loss for the fourth quarter in the wake of a series of ...
Biden: Winning second term 'easy, nothing to it'
Winning the 2012 U.S. election? It was a cakewalk, Vice President Joe Biden joked Tuesday. Biden appeared to be in good spirits as he joined British ...
New tuberculosis vaccine doesn't protect infants
The world's most advanced tuberculosis vaccine failed to protect babies against the infectious disease, according to a new study in South Africa.
Scientists to reveal result of Richard III hunt
Has Britain's lost king been found? Later Monday, scientists will announce the results of tests conducted to determine whether a battle-scarred ...
Stun gun used on armed man near Buckingham Palace
Police used a stun gun to arrest a man armed with knives outside Buckingham Palace on Sunday, as throngs of tourists gathered to watch the Changing ...
Afghanistan, Pakistan leaders in UK for talks
The leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan are due to hold talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron in London on the Afghan peace process.
Why is Beckham sitting on the bench for nothing?
David Beckham has won league championships in three countries on two continents, earns millions of dollars in endorsements and his name is practically ...