AP - Back and forth they went in the Wimbledon final, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, the two greatest tennis players of their generation producing one of the greatest matches of any generation on the sport's grandest stage.
Reuters - Rafael Nadal ended Roger Federer's
five-year reign as king of Wimbledon on Sunday with a 6-4 6-4
6-7 6-7 9-7 victory in the longest and one of the most dramatic
men's singles finals seen at the All England Club.
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AP - NBC Universal and two partners said Sunday they have reached a deal to buy The Weather Channel from Landmark Communications Inc., ending a drawn-out process that had attracted interest from several major media companies.
AP - Federal officials are considering a tentative proposal that calls for capturing or killing infected elk in Yellowstone National Park to eliminate a serious livestock disease carried by animals in the area.
Reuters - Weary California firefighters
braced on Sunday for another heat wave in the next few days as
they battled to bring two major blazes threatening towns along
the central coast under control.
Reuters - Pop star Madonna denied having an
affair with Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez and said in a
statement to People magazine on Sunday she is not planning to
get divorced from her British husband Guy Ritchie.
AP - The United Arab Emirates canceled billions of dollars of Iraqi debt Sunday and moved to restore a full diplomatic mission in Baghdad, evidence of Iraq's improved security and growing acceptance of its Shiite-led government.
AP - Will Smith's box-office superpowers remain intact. Smith's "Hancock" — the story of a boozing, foul-mouthed superhero who dresses like a street bum — led the Fourth of July weekend with a $66 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Reuters - Tropical Storm Bertha, moving briskly
across open ocean waters, may strengthen into the first
hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic storm season sometime during the
next 48 hours, U.S. weather forecasters said on Sunday.
AP - Afghan officials said fighter aircraft battling militants accidentally killed up to 27 Afghans walking to a wedding ceremony in eastern Afghanistan early Sunday, the second military attack in three days with reports of civilian deaths.
AP - The world's top industrialized nations begin their annual summit Monday confronted with demands they reinvigorate the world economy, push ahead languishing climate change talks and make good on pledges to battle poverty and hunger.
AP - The first clue that the Tuesday afternoon session in Part 4 of Buffalo City Court is not like other criminal proceedings comes just before it starts.
Reuters - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered
an investigation into a U.S.-led coalition air strike that
local officials say killed 15 civilians, but the U.S. military
says killed only armed Taliban militants.
AFP - A suicide bomber killed 15 people Sunday in an attack on police guarding an Islamist rally to mark the anniversary of an army raid on the radical Red Mosque in Pakistan's capital, officials said.
AFP/File - The United States and Japan called Sunday for urgent action on red-hot oil and food prices that could derail the global economy on the eve of a summit of the world's richest nations.
Reuters - The Group of Eight rich nations
will seek to convince a skeptical Africa on Monday that it is
living up to promises to double aid to the world's poorest
continent.
Reuters - Israeli police have concluded that a
Palestinian construction worker who killed three Israelis with
a bulldozer in Jerusalem last week acted alone and not as part
of a militant organization, a spokesman said on Sunday.
Reuters - OPEC President Chakib Khelil ruled out
on Sunday an eventual oil price fall in view of strong Chinese
and Indian demand, adding geopolitics and a weak dollar were
behind the current spike, Algeria's APS news agency reported.
AP - Barack Obama celebrated "active faith" as an obligation of religious Americans and a chief agent of societal change while speaking Saturday to a nearly all-black roomful of churchgoers, but hoping to reach far beyond them.
AP - Jesse Helms forever changed North Carolina politics and the conservative movement. The former senator did it without ever changing much about himself.
Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate
Barack Obama said on Saturday his plan to end the Iraq war was
unchanged and he was puzzled by the sharp reaction to his
statement this week that he might "refine" his timetable for
withdrawing U.S. combat troops.
AP - A wildfire threatening hundreds of homes in Southern California spread slowly through scenic canyonlands Saturday, straining resources as crews struggled to contain hundreds of other blazes around the state.
AP - Riding a green lawn chair supported by a rainbow array of more than 150 helium-filled party balloons, Kent Couch took off Saturday in a third bid to fly from central Oregon all the way to Idaho.
AP - The knock on Brian Hart's door came at 6 a.m. An Army colonel, a priest and a police officer had come to tell Hart and his wife that their 20-year-old son had been killed when his military vehicle was ambushed in Iraq.
AP - Military intelligence agents posing as aid workers and a film crew flew to the jungle aboard a white helicopter, staging a mock humanitarian mission that rebels were told would ferry their hostages to another camp for talks on a prisoner swap.
AP - Iran indicated Saturday that it has no plans to meet a key Western demand that it stop enriching uranium, a day after Tehran sent the European Union a response to an international offer of incentives for halting enrichment.
Reuters - Firefighters in California have
fended off a blaze threatening more than 3,000 homes in and
around the coastal town of Goleta and are turning their
attention to preventing its spread toward the nearby
picturesque city of Santa Barbara, officials said on Saturday.
AP - Thrilled as she was to win her fifth Wimbledon singles championship, Venus Williams dialed down her celebration. No hopping in place and skipping to the net after match point, the way she's done so often on that Centre Court lawn. No giddy laughter and whoops of joy, as she's let out in the past.
Reuters - President George W. Bush
and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda will discuss the next
steps in the six-party talks over North Korea's nuclear status
when they meet on the sidelines of the G8 summit in Japan, a
White House official said on Saturday.
Reuters - Venus and Serena Williams returned to
Center Court three hours after doing battle in the singles
final to secure the Wimbledon doubles title with a 6-2 6-2
thumping of American Lisa Raymond and Australian Samantha
Stosur on Saturday.
Reuters - A film secretly taken by a Zimbabwe
prison guard and smuggled out of the country shows the extent
of the rigging that took place for the June 27 presidential
run-off vote, the Guardian said on Saturday.
Reuters - The Mississippi River, the most
important U.S. commercial waterway, reopened to water
navigation on Saturday after much of it was closed for nearly a
month due to the worst flooding in 15 years.
AFP - South African President Thabo Mbeki, chief regional negotiator on the Zimbabwe crisis, met here Saturday with President Robert Mugabe and leaders of a breakaway faction of the main opposition party.
Reuters - Iran vowed on Saturday to pursue its
uranium enrichment program, a day after delivering its response
to an incentives package by world powers trying to curb its
nuclear ambitions.
Reuters - Colombia found explosives set to be used
in bombs across the capital in reprisal for this week's rescue
of leftist rebels' highest-profile hostages, including Ingrid
Betancourt, military officials said on Saturday.
AFP - Iran on Saturday offered to negotiate on its nuclear drive but without a freeze on uranium enrichment, in its first comments since responding to an international package aimed at ending the standoff.
