Sports 20 May, 2012 0

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Toronto's Joey Votto hit a three-run homer, Jose Arredondo worked out of a ninth-inning jam for his first major league save and the Cincinnati Reds held off the New York Yankees 6-5 on Saturday. New York scored twice off Sean Marshall in the ninth, but Reds manager Dusty Baker pulle

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LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Russell Westbrook scored 10 of his 37 points during a stirring fourth-quarter comeback, Kevin Durant added 31 points and hit the tie-breaking three-pointer with 13.7 seconds left, and the Oklahoma City Thunder seized control of the second-round series with a 103-100 victory ove

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SAN JOSE, Calif. - Daniel (DC) Cormier defeated veteran Josh (The War Master) Barnett to preserve his unbeaten record and win the Strikeforce heavyweight Grand Prix tournament on Saturday night. Cormier, a two-time Olympic wrestler who came into the Strikeforce tournament as an alternate, used his s

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LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Kevin Durant stood above the 3-point line and watched the shot clock dwindle in the final seconds of Game 4. When Metta World Peace backed up slightly on defence, Durant hesitated only an instant before launching a 26-footer. "It left my hand, (and) I was thinking, 'If this doe

Business 20 May, 2012 0

BEIJING, China - Premier Wen Jiabao called for more priority to be given to boosting China's slowing economic growth, a state news agency reported Sunday, after unusually weak industrial activity in April prompted alarm about the world's second-largest economy. During a weekend trip to the industria

Business 20 May, 2012 0

CHICAGO - World leaders turn their attention today from global financial security to its physical security as they gather for the NATO summit in Chicago. Fresh off the G8 meetings at the U.S. President's Camp David retreat, Prime Minister Stephen Harper will join the member countries of the North Am

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Saturday's Games NHL Eastern Conference Final New York Rangers 3 New Jersey 0 (New York leads series 2-1) -- World Hockey Championship At Helsinki Russia 6 Finland 2 Slovakia 3 Czech Republic 1 -- Memorial Cup London 5 Saint John 3 -- AHL playoffs Norfolk 3 St. John's 1 (Norfolk leads series 2-0) --

Business 20 May, 2012 0

TORONTO - Traders can look forward to what will likely be another week of high anxiety after worries about the eurozone continued to erode gains on the TSX last week. But there will be some distraction during a shortened trading week in Canada in the form of quarterly earnings reports from some of t

Entertainment 20 May, 2012 0

CANNES, France - It's 43 years since Jean-Louis Trintignant was named the Cannes Film Festival's best actor for "Z," and 14 years since he all but gave up filmmaking to focus on the stage. He was tempted back by Michael Haneke's Cannes entry "Amour" ("Love"), which looks unflinchingly at death throu

Entertainment 20 May, 2012 0

TORONTO - Before Ian Astbury and the Cult made "Choice of Weapon," the Hamilton-reared rock howler was starting to believe he might never take up musical arms again. After 2007's "Born Into This" came out, Astbury went through a difficult period. He suffered through a bad breakup and then his body b