CULTURE AND SPORT

Italian financial police arrested 24 and seized a vast array of assets in a major operation against money laundering by Chinese crime gangs.

G20 leaders Sunday closed in on a deal to slash national deficits within three years.

Leaders of the Group of 20 developed and emerging nations opened talks in Toronto late Saturday.

Asamoah Gyan scored three minutes into extra time to send Ghana into the quarter-finals with a 2-1 victory over the United States.

The leaders of the world\'s richest nations warned Saturday the global recovery was still fragile.

Europe and the United States tried to bridge differences over how to sustain fragile global economic recovery.

US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev forged a warmer relationship over burgers and a stroll.

When The Match That Would Not End finally did, at 70-68 in the fifth set, the customary handshake between opponents simply would not suffice.

World leaders trickled into Toronto for global economic talks, but their resolve seemed less focused than at earlier meetings.

Welsh-born lawyer Julia Gillard became Australia's first woman prime minister Thursday after Kevin Rudd fell to a party coup.

President Obama placed the sapping Afghan war in the hands of Iraq hero General David Petraeus, after firing US commander Stanley McChrystal.

On and on and on, and on some more, they played — longer than anyone ever had before. And still there was no winner.

England and the United States qualified for the last 16 of the World Cup, but the US won the group with a last-gasp 1-0 victory over Algeria.

A string of first round failures by African teams on their home turf threatened to muzzle the buzz of the vuvuzela.

Charges were dropped Tuesday against two Dutch women arrested at a World Cup match for wearing short orange dresses.

President Barack Obama was to meet at the White House Wednesday with his commander in the Afghanistan war.

South Korea progressed to the second round of the World Cup for only the second time in eight attempts after a 2-2 draw with Nigeria.

Rescuers have found the wreckage of a crashed plane carrying an Australian mining tycoon and other executives, with ten bodies found so far.

Buoc Nhay Hoan Vu 2010 (Dancing with the Stars) had its finale and the winner took the show by storm.