By Tom LaMarre, The Sports Xchange
Even if Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson still have some of their old magic left, their generation is passing into history and a new era is starting with great promise.
KAZAN, Russia (AP) — The women are getting it done at the world swimming championships.
Member of the German parliament Alexander Neu said that he sees no difference between the issues of Kosovo and Crimea.
Often when we feel oddly upset about the death of a celebrity we’ve never met, it takes days to pinpoint the roots of the sadness. I’m getting closer now. It’s not that I thought Cilla – no second name required, like Cher, Elvis or Madonna – would live forever, but in her 70s, her aura as a showbiz force of nature was still strong. I was hoping she’d give immortality a good go.
The UK government is selling some of its shares in the bank. It should have done so years ago
Hospitals are intensifying inpatient care to prevent potentially fatal blood clots. WSJ’s Laura Landro and Johns Hopkins’ Dr. Elliott Haut join Tanya Rivero on Lunch Break. Photo: Getty
Mark Ogden: As a football investment, there is no hiding place for club, player or manager - Argentine is an unmitigated disaster
After more than a month-long closure, the Greek stock market's first day re-opening ended 16 percent lower.
Standard & Poor's revised its outlook on the European Union to "negative" from "stable," citing Greece as a factor.
European 400m hurdles champion Eilidh Child admits the latest revelations surrounding doping in athletics "make her heart sink".
Holding back tears, Amy Schumer has joined her cousin, the Democratic senator from New York and noted gun control advocate, Chuck Schumer, in calling for universal background checks for people seeking to buy guns in America.
Tom Hayes is not the first - and won't be the last - banker to be convicted of a financial crime. But how does his punishment compare with other bankers who have been jailed for serious wrondoing?
The Deputy Mayor of Calais says migrants choose the UK because it is easy to get black market jobs
His love affair with the 64 squares started some 40 years ago. Country's third GM Pravin Thipsay is always in awe of V Anand's chess accomplishments.
University of Illinois earns title of top party school in the nation, followed by Iowa
The UK's BRICS Ambassadors - Summit Analysis
"Summer in Boston for a Yeti has its ups and downs," it said.
Gwyneth Paltrow. (Photo by Steve Sands/Getty Images) Gwyneth Paltrow is adamant she did not come up with the phrase “conscious uncoupling” when announcing her separation from Coldplay musician Chris Martin. The actress confirmed she and Martin were separating after more than a decade of marriage last year in a blog post titled Conscious Uncoupling on her lifestyle website Goop.com. Paltrow insists it was not her but Goop’s editorial director Elise Loehnen who was responsible for the title, telling Fast Company magazine... Читать дальше...
Chinese environmental advocates are expressing fear that construction and snowmaking projects associated with Beijing’s successful bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics could damage one of the region’s few nature reserves, according to a new report Monday. The International Olympic Committee’s decision to select China’s bid sparked an outcry on the country’s Internet forums and social media platforms that government censors quickly silenced.
Annie Martin
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Bella Hadid, 18, and mother Yolanda Foster, 51, posed in similar red swimsuits for a poolside photo Sunday.
Albanian athlete missing from Special Olympics in Los Angeles turns up safe 350 miles away
Moses Weisberg was walking his bicycle through the National Arboretum in Northeast Washington when he stopped at a mushroom-shaped tree. The first thing he noticed was the thickness of the trunk, estimated at almost a foot and a half in diameter. And then there was the abundance of spindly leaves, a healthy head of hair for a botanical relic 390 years old.
NEW YORK - Goldman Sachs Group Inc. raised the upper end of its estimate for "reasonably possible" legal expenses to $5.9 billion, according to a regulatory filing.
Easy to see but hard to fix: The manager’s guide to solving the biggest work problems
Brooks Hays
NEW YORK, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- A new study suggests when people are making decisions involving others, they value character traits over absolute material benefit.