MILAN – John Arne Riise’s injury-time winner lifted AS Roma over 10-man Juventus 2-1 in the Serie A on Saturday.
Alessandro Del Piero gave Juventus the lead in the 51st minute, and Francesco Totti equalized with a penalty in the 68th.
Then Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon was sent off in the 83rd for a professional foul on [...]

MELBOURNE: China’s Zheng Jie became the first player to reach the Australian Open quarter-finals on Sunday after a 7-6 6-4 upset of Alona Bondarenko on Hisense Arena.
The dimunitive right-hander, who was the first Chinese to reach the last four of a grand slam when she surprisingly made the semi-finals at Wimbledon in 2008, had to [...]

MELBOURNE, Australia: Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray held off two of the tallest men and biggest servers in tennis on Sunday to set up a quarterfinal meeting at the Australian Open.
Defending champion Nadal had a 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 win over 6-foot-10 (2.08-meters) Ivo Karlovic of Croatia, the tallest man on the tour.
In the previous [...]

A high-speed railway linking Chengdu and Chongqing will be built in the first half of 2010, local authorities in Chongqing announced Thursday, China News Service’s website reported.
“Once the railway opens, it will take only 56 minutes to travel by train between the two cities,” said Wen Tianping, spokesman of Chongqing municipality government, at a news [...]

A woman tried making love to a burglar, mistaking the intruder for her husband, in Changsha, capital of Hunan province, last Wednesday, the Xiaoxiang Morning Post reports.
The woman, surnamed Qiu, woke up when she heard someone enter the room and threw herself on the person, thinking it was her husband.
The man pushed her down on [...]

URUMQI: China Huaneng Group, China’s biggest power producer, will build two 600MW power units in the far western Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, an executive at its Xinjiang subsidiary said Saturday.

Liu Xinmin, general manager of the Huaneng Xinjiang Energy Development Company, said the regional development and reform commission, the local economic planner, gave the green light [...]

NEW YORK – Daniel Day-Lewis has not appeared on a live theater’s stage in decades, but he takes on a uniquely theatrical role for new movie musical, “Nine,” which begins its broad U.S. release Christmas day.
The two-time Oscar winner more often than not plays driven men in movie dramas, as with Bill “The Butcher” Cutting [...]

NEW YORK – The sweet, syncopated sounds of “Ragtime” will fall silent Sunday on Broadway.
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The $8 million musical will close after a disappointing run of less than two months at the Neil Simon Theatre. It will have played 57 performances.
“While we’re saddened and disappointed to announce that ‘Ragtime’ must close, bringing this beautiful and powerful [...]

MARSEILLE, France – Thieves have stolen about 30 paintings, including a work by Spanish master Pablo Picasso, from a private villa in the south of France, police said on Saturday.
The haul, which also included a painting by post-impressionist Henri Rousseau, was worth about 1 million euros ($1.43 million), a judicial source said.
The theft was discovered [...]

Just two weeks after a chilling reprisal attack for troops’ killing of the reputed boss of the Beltran Leyva cartel, police have captured one of his brothers, sending a strong message that Mexico will not back down in the drug war.
Officials said Saturday night that Carlos Beltran Leyva was arrested in Culiacan, the capital of [...]