The New York Mets will begin a six-game road trip tonight with manager Willie Randolph, but whether or not he returns with the team is anyone’s guess.
Randolph’s crew continues its interleague slate this evening with the first of three games against the AL West-leading Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim at Angel Stadium.
With their manager’s job [...]
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown handed President Bush good news on two fronts Monday: a modest increase in Britain’s troops for the tough Afghanistan fight and a fresh European effort to squeeze Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
The deeply unpopular prime minister seemed to calculate he had more to gain politically by being hawkish than he risked losing [...]
News confirms that the couple are on their way back to Los Angeles after spending a romantic weekend in Mexico. Their private jet is expected to touch down at Van Nuys Airport sometime tonight.
The Friends With Money star and the Heavier Things artist landed south of the border on Friday and then shuttled over to [...]
More than 200 Chinese mainland tourists will leave today and tomorrow to join a celebration on Thursday in Washington DC, specially held for China’s inaugural leisure tour group to the United States.
The tourists will leave from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou to join the event seen as marking a new era in Sino-US relations.
Vice-Premier Wang Qishan, [...]
A TRIP to Eden by several men accused of terrorism involved fishing, barbecues and mud bogging, and there was no talk of either religion or politics, the Supreme Court heard yesterday.
Prosecutors had earlier alleged the trip was designed for bonding or team building among some of the 12 Muslim men charged with terror offences.
The men [...]
The trip of a lifetime turned into a nightmare for more than a dozen Tampa students. The Wharton High graduates were forced to fend for their lives in Cancun.
“The boat started to rock back and forth and the front of the boat started to lift out of the water.” says Wharton High graduate Matt Koehler.
He [...]
The U.N.’s most powerful body spent nine days visiting African hotspots trying to push solutions to the continent’s worst conflicts and get a taste of the hardships faced by millions of civilians caught in fighting.
For the U.N. Security Council diplomats who traveled from Kenya to Djibouti, where peace talks on Somalia were taking place, and [...]
The Dodgers have struggled away from Los Angeles this year, but got their current nine-game road trip off to a good start. The club resumes that swing and a three-game series with the San Diego Padres tonight at Petco Park.
The Dodgers defeated the Padres, 7-2, on Tuesday for just their second win in their last [...]
A federal jury Wednesday acquitted a Virginia hunting agent on charges stemming from a Siberian trip with Houston billionaire Dan Duncan.
Robert Kern and his company, The Hunting Consortium, were accused of breaking a federal law that prohibits importing wildlife knowingly taken in violation of another country’s laws.
Jurors had deliberated a combined seven hours since Tuesday, [...]
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday refused to back down over Iran’s nuclear programme, days ahead of a trip to Tehran by the EU foreign policy chief in search of a compromise in the crisis.
Iran will not trade its “dignity” in its nuclear programme, Ahmadinejad said, in an apparent refusal to consider the main demand of [...]
