Police are investigating alleged email interception by Rupert Murdoch’s Times of London, a British lawmaker said Thursday — dragging Britain’s oldest national newspaper into the broadening scandal over press wrongdoing. The country’s media ethics inquiry has summoned the newspaper’s editor to answer questions about the claims. Labour Party legislator Tom Watson, who helped lift the [...]

Scores of Egyptian soccer fans were crushed to death while others were fatally stabbed or suffocated after being trapped in a long narrow corridor trying to flee rival fans armed with knives, clubs and stones, in the country’s worst ever soccer violence that killed at least 74 people, witnesses and health officials said Thursday. Many [...]

Rescuers pulled more than 230 survivors from the sea off Papua New Guinea’s east coast after a ferry sank Thursday with as many as 350 people on board, many of them children. An airplane from Australia, three helicopters and eight ships scoured the area after the MV Rabaul Queen went down while travelling from Kimbe [...]

Beginning of Story Content It’s a winter sport weekend where Europe comes to North America. For a change, the World Cup events in a few sports will be contested on this side of the Atlantic. In bobsleigh/skeleton, Mellisa Hollingsworth, Lyndon Rush and the rest of the crew will race on the fastest track in the [...]

After falling to the bottom of the Eastern Conference, Steven Stamkos and the Tampa Bay Lightning are back in the playoff conversation thanks to a season-high five-game winning streak. A home game against the Winnipeg Jets could help their post-season push. Stamkos looks to lead the surging Lightning to an eighth straight home victory over [...]