CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - NASA said on Monday it expects the New Horizons spacecraft to be back in service on Tuesday after a computer crash over the weekend threatened its upcoming historic flyby of Pluto.
Job description for the England coach before the New Zealand series: to regenerate public goodwill towards the team by attitude and performance. Job description for the England coach after the New Zealand series: to maintain public support, win the Ashes or ensure the team don’t lose heavily.
The dramatic upsurge in women’s team sport will be witnessed again this month as England attempt to retain the Ashes. They have named their squad for the start of the series against Australia on 21 July.
In the heated debate over the meaning behind the controversial Confederate Flag, supporters of the battle flag often say that the argument over slavery is not the reason South Carolina joined in on the effort to secede from the Union, but that it was States rights that so many men fought and died for.
There was the worst possible news for England only two days before the start of the Ashes. Mitchell Johnson, their nemesis on the ill-fated expedition to Australia two winters ago, is back to his considerable peak.
The Confederate battle emblem should remain on the Mississippi flag because it honors ancestors who fought for the South in the Civil War, a brother of former Gov. Haley Barbour…
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Mike Brown, the England full-back, has said he “cannot wait” to return to full contact rugby after the longest enforced lay-off of his career, following a concussion against Italy in the Six Nations in February.
A 16-year-old boy accused of shooting an 8-year-old boy in the arm early Sunday is being held without bail on one of three charges.
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - A Canadian man who parachuted from a flying lawn chair powered by helium balloons was facing police charges on Monday.
The 20th annual Wife Carrying World Championships end with the Finnish entry retaining their crown. Roselle Chen reports.
LA PAZ (Reuters) - A Bolivian avant-garde restaurant hopes this week to serve a well-known non-paying customer and receive a holy seal of approval for its new creation: a quinoa-based communion wafer.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The world's oldest living person, the daughter of sharecroppers and granddaughter of slaves, celebrated her 116th birthday on Monday in New York.
TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - A man convicted of having sex on a public beach in Florida in front of a child was sentenced on Monday to 2-1/2 years in prison, a state prosecutor said.
Allen University in Columbia has created the Simmons, Pinckney and Sanders Scholarship to honor the lives of three alumni who were killed last month in a mass shooting at Emanuel AME Church.
Charleston police are asking for the public's help finding a 14-year-old who ranaway from home.
Regional leaders are urging Burundi's government to delay presidential elections by two weeks as the central African country grapples with violence sparked by the president's bid for a third term.
The latest on the fallout from the Greek referendum (all times local):
Despite triumphing in a popular vote against austerity, Greece on Monday faced the urgent need to heal its ties with European creditors and reach a financial rescue deal that might prevent it from falling out of the euro -...
A Russian military aircraft crashed Monday while taking off on a nighttime training flight and both pilots were killed, the Defense Ministry said.
After 50 years the band plays what they say will be their final show in Chicago. Alicia Powell reports.
A homeless man finds online fame in Russia after launching a video blog that shows his daily struggles on the streets of Moscow. Roselle Chen reports.
Mozambique destroyed a large stockpile of confiscated ivory and rhino horn on Monday in an effort to curb severe poaching, the government said.
Greek banks will remain closed until Wednesday with limits on daily withdrawals unchanged, the state news agency reported on Monday, citing officials. Further developments will depend on decisions by the European Central Bank, whose board of governors were holding a conference call on Monday to decide whether to maintain its lifeline to Greek banks, the […]
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — More than 1 million people filled a park in Ecuador’s main port city on Monday for Pope Francis’ first big event of his three-nation South American tour, hoping for a glimpse of Latin America’s first pope returning to his home soil for a Mass dedicated to the family. Many pilgrims spent […]
Mississippi regulators plan to discuss at a Tuesday meeting how to obey a state Supreme Court order to refund about $350 million that Mississippi Power Co. has collected from customers…
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