New car registrations in the United Kingdom rose 27 percent in March compared to a year ago, in the last month of government-backed discounts, an industry group reported Thursday.
The number of registrations of cars built in the U.K. was up 52 percent, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said.
March was the last month of a program in which the government and the industry split the cost of 2,000-pound …
UNLV basketball on probation
UNLV's basketball program was placed on four years' probationtoday for violations that included a booster's payment of $5,600 toLamar Odom and the failure to monitor recruiting visits. UNLVresponded to the sanctions by firing coach Bill Bayno, according toFox Sports and KTNV-TV.
Woods named most powerful
Tiger Woods, who won three majors and became the youngest golferto complete an individual Grand Slam, was chosen the year's mostpowerful person in sports by the Sporting News. Woods is just thesecond athlete to head the list of 100 personalities, which has beenpublished annually since 1990. Michael Jordan was picked No. 1 …
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CAIRO — Hundreds of anti-government protesters return to the streets of central Cairo, chanting slogans against Hosni Mubarak just hours after the Egyptian president fired his Cabinet and promised reforms but refused to step down. The protests indicate Mubarak's words in a televised speech shortly after midnight have done little to cool the anger over Egypt's crushing poverty, unemployment and corruption. By Maggie Michael.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle packed with explosives rams into a car carrying the deputy governor of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province , killing him and …
AMSTERDAM (AP) — The International Cycling Union says Alberto Contador has the right to defend his Tour de France title while it is appealing the Spanish cycling federation's decision to clear him of doping at last year's Tour.
The UCI said in a statement Thursday that the three-time Tour winner "has the statutory right to take part in any competition insofar as he has not been found guilty" by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
The UCI and World Anti-Doping Agency have appealed the Spanish federation's decision to the CAS, which will hear it from Aug. 1-3, a week after the Tour. It was originally set for early June, but the CAS delayed it to give both sides more time to …
MORGANTOWN - Jonnie West admittedly has a strange feeling at timesbecause he's not playing basketball this season.
That's understandable.
The 6-foot-3, 170-pound West Virginia University freshman isn'tcompeting in the game he loves for the first time in about 13 years.
"I think I had a basketball in my hands when I first learned howto walk," West said recently. "But I probably started actuallyplaying when I was 5 years old.
"So, it is difficult sometimes sitting out during games, but Ihave no regrets at all about being redshirted this year."
The youngest son of Jerry and Karen West said he's really learninga lot by just sitting and watching at …
MUNSAN, South Korea - Trains departed Thursday for the first rail journey through the heavily armed border dividing the two Koreas in more than half a century, the latest symbol of historic reconciliation between the longtime foes.
The one-time test runs of trains along two restored tracks on the west and east sides of the peninsula come after repeated delays since the rail lines were linked in 2003 and despite unresolved tensions over the North's nuclear weapons.
This is a breaking news update. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - It was New Year's Eve in 1950. Koreans were fleeing the Chinese advance in …
Country music artists Charley Pride and Marty Stuart and bluesman Pinetop Perkins will headline the third annual Mississippi Grammy gala.
Other performers at the Horseshoe Casino and Hotel in Tunica ('TOON-ih-cuh) on May 28 will be R&B singer Dorothy Moore, soul-gospel performers The Williams Brothers, blues singer Eddie Cotton and pianist Eden Brent.
The gala celebrates Mississippi's …
