After 8 Months, Setback Ends Barbaroâs Battle
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The Kentucky Derby winner was euthanized, ending an extraordinary effort to save his life after a leg injury.
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GIBRALTAR -- Returning 200 years ago from the New World to a Europe engulfed by the Napoleonic wars, Spanish Rear Adm. Don JosÃÂ¯ÃÂ¿ÃÂ½ Bustamente led a fleet of four frigates to a tragic homecoming. South of Portugal's Cape St. Mary, British warships spotted the Spaniards in October 1804 and ordered them...
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When the raucous music was turned down Sunday night and the dancing in the stands had ended, and the eight swaggering and strutting sprinters were finally coiled into their
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The rulings, the latest legal setbacks for the governmentâs effort to bring war crimes charges against detainees, could stall the militaryâs prosecutions at GuantÃ¡namo Bay.
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Eight Dominican migrants died and 83 were  rescued on Friday when their overladen boat capsized in rough  seas off Puerto Rico, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
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SYDNEY  - The crew of defending Sydney to Hobart champion Skandia abandoned ship in mountainous seas as storm damage also forced out race leader Konica Minolta, leaving debutant Nicorette with an apparently unassailable lead.
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An eight-year court battle between Microsoft and Eolas Technologies has come to an end. The software giant settled with Eolas for an undisclosed amount to put the case in the annals of intellectual property war history.
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It was a historic show as the contestant who seemed unstoppable was finally halted in his tracks. It was the end of an almost unbelieveable winning streak.
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It has been two and a half years since Diego Corrales and Joel Casamayor last fought, but time has not healed the wounds of their previous two encounters.
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Three soldiers and eight militants were killed in a gun battle at an oil pipeline hub operated by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria's southern state of Bayelsa, the navy said on Sunday.
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Supporters of leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday ended the street protest that clogged the heart of the capital for nearly seven weeks, but they vowed to find other ways to resist the incoming conservative president.
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Maryland's tidal fishery regulators lost a bid to have the state's controversial spring trophy rockfish season freed from special federal oversight yesterday. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission by a 7-6 vote rejected a proposal to end the system.
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The Australian women&#39;s eight have been reprimanded for a breach of team protocol over an ugly war of words between crew members after one quit rowing three quarters of the way through the Olympic final.
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The career-ending breakdown of the Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro has brought urgency to reducing the number of catastrophic injuries to racehorses.
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ADELAIDE, Australia  - At least eight people were  killed Tuesday as a bushfire burned out of control across a  southern Australia peninsula, others were missing and six more  were rescued after they escaped into the sea, officials said.
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The bureaucratic storm buffeting the National Hurricane Center has ended.
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For some Americans, weary of war  in Iraq and uncertain about the future, the race horse  Barbaro's fight for life was a welcome tale of hope in the face  of adversity.