| Sophie Masloff, 1st female Pittsburgh mayor, dies Posted: 17 Aug 2014 01:04 PM PDT  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Sophie Masloff, who rose from a tax clerk to become Pittsburgh's first female mayor, died Sunday. She was 96.
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| Serena Williams wins first Cincinnati title Posted: 17 Aug 2014 12:47 PM PDT  World number one Serena Williams claimed her first Cincinnati title with a dominating 6-4, 6-1 win over Ana Ivanovic in the final of the WTA Tour hardcourt tournament on Sunday. Williams, who finished runner-up last year, needed just 62 minutes to earn her 62nd career singles crown. "It was such a great week," Williams said. This also marked Williams' second title in the month of August as she looks to be in fine form heading into the season's final major, the US Open which begins August 25 in New York.
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| PSG confirm Motta nose broken in Brandao clash Posted: 17 Aug 2014 12:31 PM PDT  Paris Saint-Germain on Sunday confirmed that midfielder Thiago Motta suffered a fractured nose in an ugly clash with Brazilian striker Brandao after Saturday's 2-0 win against SC Bastia. Images from surveillance cameras in the tunnel at the Parc des Princes showed Brandao waiting for Motta to approach him before headbutting the Brazil-born Italy international at the end of the Ligue 1 game won 2-0 by PSG. The French champions added that right-back Gregory Van der Wiel suffered "a fracture of the second lumbar vertebra following a knee in the back from the Bastia player Brandao in the first half."
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| Holders Bayern claim Cup win, Hoffenheim hit nine Posted: 17 Aug 2014 12:16 PM PDT  Bayern Munich began their defence of the German Cup with a comfortable 4-1 first-round win away to third-tier side Preussen Munster on Sunday. Pep Guardiola's starting line-up was deprived of the injured Bastian Schweinsteiger and there was no Franck Ribery, but it did feature five members of the Germany side that won the World Cup five weeks ago. The man who scored the winning goal against Argentina at the Maracana, Mario Goetze, opened the scoring for Bayern with a header from a Robert Lewandowski cross, before Thomas Mueller doubled their lead.
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| AP Source: Marion to sign with Cavaliers Posted: 17 Aug 2014 11:45 AM PDT  CLEVELAND (AP) — Shawn Marion wanted another shot at an NBA title. He'll get it playing with LeBron James.
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| Warren sees off Dredge to win Denmark Open Posted: 17 Aug 2014 11:29 AM PDT  Scotland's Marc Warren won his third European Tour title on Sunday when he clinched the Denmark Open by two shots from Welsh veteran Bradley Dredge. He was pushed all the way by Dredge, who went round in 70 for seven under overall while England's Phillip Archer was third, five shots off Warren.
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| Thousands mourn Brazil presidential candidate Campos Posted: 17 Aug 2014 11:13 AM PDT  More than 130,000 mourners turned out to pay their respects to Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos here Sunday after the popular socialist politician's death in a plane crash last week. A line of mourners stretching some three kilometers (1.9 miles) queued to file past Campos's coffin, placed outside Recife's local government headquarters to allow people to say a final farewell. Brazil President Dilma Rousseff was in attendance as ceremonies got under way with an open air mass. Campos, 49, died when his campaign jet slammed into houses in Santos city in bad weather on Wednesday, killing all seven people on board and setting buildings alight.
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| Ukraine says its troops make breakthrough in rebel stronghold Posted: 17 Aug 2014 10:57 AM PDT  By Natalia Zinets and Thomas Grove KIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukrainian forces have raised their national flag over a police station in the city of Luhansk which was for months under rebel control, Kiev said on Sunday, in what could be a breakthrough in Ukraine's efforts to crush pro-Moscow separatists. Ukrainian officials said however the rebels were fighting a desperate rearguard action to hold on to Luhansk - which is their supply route into neighbouring Russia - and that the flow of weapons and fighters from Russia had accelerated. The foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany were meeting in Berlin and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said talks would focus on how to achieve a ceasefire and prevent weapons and fighters crossing into eastern Ukraine.
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| Peek into brain shows how kids learn math skills Posted: 17 Aug 2014 10:40 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sometime in elementary school, you quit counting your fingers and just know the answer. Now scientists have put youngsters into brain scanners to find out why, and watched how the brain reorganizes itself as kids learn math.
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| Man City, Liverpool open Premier League with wins Posted: 17 Aug 2014 10:23 AM PDT  LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Two days into the English Premier League season and there is a familiar sight at the top of the standings.
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| Athletics - Beach boy Bolt wins Copacabana 100m Posted: 17 Aug 2014 09:51 AM PDT  - Olympic champion and world record holder Usain Bolt won his first 100m of 2014 in an exhibition race run on Rio's iconic Copacabana beach, two years out from the 2016 Olympics.
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| Pakistan politician calls for civil disobedience Posted: 17 Aug 2014 09:35 AM PDT  ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician has called upon protesters at an anti-government rally to practice civil disobedience.
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| Max Gentlemen, a game inspired by penis pill spam emails, arrives this week Posted: 17 Aug 2014 09:14 AM PDT  Organ Trail creator The Men Who Wear Many Hats will release its free, "old timey arcade action" game called Max Gentlemen on Aug. 21 for mobile devices and PC, the developer recently announced. It also offers cross-platform local multiplayer to compete against friends. In Max Gentlemen, players will collect and stack hats in a Victorian-era world, mixed with "the over-the-top, pile-drive-your-mom aesthetics of professional wrestling." Max Gentlemen was inspired by a spam email for penis pills received by a member of the dev team.
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| Kurds advance against militants with U.S. air support Posted: 17 Aug 2014 08:53 AM PDT  By Humeyra Pamuk DOHUK Iraq (Reuters) - Kurdish fighters are advancing towards the militant-held city of Mosul, aiming to reverse gains by Islamic State insurgents, witnesses and a Kurdish peshmerga commander said on Sunday. Islamic State militants have seized a large chunk of northern Iraq in recent weeks, grabbing several towns, oilfields and Mosul Dam, possibly giving them the ability to flood cities or cut off water and electricity supplies. Militants told residents of the dam area to leave, an engineer who works at the site and often comes into contact with the Sunni insurgents. The engineer at Mosul Dam, Iraq's biggest, said Islamic State militants told him they were planting roadside bombs along roads leading in and out of the facility, possibly in fear of an attack by Kurdish fighters who have been bolstered by U.S. airstrikes.
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| Man with many piercings denied entry to Dubai Posted: 17 Aug 2014 08:36 AM PDT  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A heavily tattooed German man whose face is embellished with horn implants and more than 100 piercings said Sunday he was refused entry to Dubai without reason, forcing him to skip a planned appearance at a nightclub.
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| Magicka 2's wizards are still the most unpredictable and unprofessional in fantasy Posted: 17 Aug 2014 08:18 AM PDT  Magicka's wizards have always been goofy, self-aware and dangerous to both others and themselves. The latest installment, Magicka 2, which is coming to PlayStation 4 and Windows PC, is not changing any of that. "We like to think of our wizards as the most unpredictable and most unprofessional wizards in fantasy," said producer Peter Cornelius.
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| Sturridge gives Liverpool opening win Posted: 17 Aug 2014 07:59 AM PDT  Daniel Sturridge snaffled a 79th-minute winner as last season's Premier League runners-up Liverpool opened the new campaign with a 2-1 victory at home to Southampton on Sunday. Raheem Sterling put Liverpool ahead midway through the first half at a sun-soaked Anfield, but Nathaniel Clyne lashed home an equaliser shortly before the hour following a neat exchange with debutant Dusan Tadic. Brendan Rodgers's Liverpool looked destined to drop points in their first competitive game since the sale of Luis Suarez to Barcelona, but with 11 minutes to play, Sterling teed up Sturridge to flick home the winning goal.
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| Obama heading back to DC in rare vacation break Posted: 17 Aug 2014 07:37 AM PDT  EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama is getting off the island.
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| Athletics - Mekhissi redeems himself with 1500m title Posted: 17 Aug 2014 07:19 AM PDT  - French athletics badboy Mahiedine Mekhissi won the European outdoor 1500 metres title on Sunday to make up for the disappointment of being disqualified after winning the 3000m steeplechase on Thursday.
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| Air raids 'kill 31 jihadists' in Syria's Raqa Posted: 17 Aug 2014 06:38 AM PDT  Beirut (AFP) - At least 31 Islamic State militants were killed in Syrian air force raids Sunday in the northern province of Raqa, a stronghold of the jihadist fighters, a monitoring group said.
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| Iraq: Kurdish forces retake parts of largest dam Posted: 17 Aug 2014 06:21 AM PDT  IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — An Iraqi security official says Kurdish forces have taken over parts of the country's largest dam, which was captured by the Islamic State extremist group earlier this month.
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| Another Ebola problem: Finding its natural source Posted: 17 Aug 2014 06:04 AM PDT  A scary problem lurks beyond the frenzied efforts to keep people from spreading Ebola: No one knows exactly where the virus comes from or how to stop it from seeding new outbreaks.
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| Why using unproven Ebola medicine is bad science Posted: 17 Aug 2014 05:30 AM PDT  This week, the World Health Organization announced that it is ethical to give untested drugs to Ebola sufferers in what is the worst-ever outbreak. The announcement came after uneasy questions about Ebola were brought to the fore following the treatment of two Americans with the experimental drug ZMapp, and questions from critics about why Africans didn't have the same right. Wider use of the medicines, the WHO said, could be helpful at a time when there are no approved treatments or cures for Ebola.
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| Tourism vs. Reality TV: Exploiting Pennsylvania's Amish Posted: 17 Aug 2014 05:13 AM PDT  By David DeKok HARRISBURG Pa. (Reuters) - They typically wear plain clothing with nothing as fancy as a button or a zipper, travel by horse-drawn buggy and shun modern conveniences like electricity. It's that Old World charm of the Amish that draws 8 million tourists - and $1.9 billion - each year to Pennsylvania's Lancaster County, home of the nation's largest Amish community of 31,000. ...
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| Syrian airstrikes target Islamic State group Posted: 17 Aug 2014 04:35 AM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian activists say government warplanes have conducted more than a dozen airstrikes against Islamic State group targets, killing at least 11 people.
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