
Comedian Bob Marley raised more than $12,000 for the Barbara Bush Children's Hospital in Portland, Maine, by joking his way to a record standup act that lasted 40 hours.

The winner of the Karaoke World Championships may not achieve world fame, but at least he or she won't have to worry where the next meal is coming from _ the top prize is 1 million Russian dumplings.
The winner of the Karaoke World Championships may not achieve world fame, but at least won't have to worry where the next meal is coming from _ the top prize is 1 million Russian dumplings.
Lauren Jackson and Kristi Harrower each scored 13 points and Australia made its first eight shots en route to a 72-47 victory over Canada on Thursday at the women's basketball world championship.
Pole-sitter Helio Castroneves of Brazil won the Indy Japan 300 on Sunday, ensuring the IndyCar series championship will come down to the final race of the year.

Pope Benedict XVI apologized Saturday to five people who were molested by priests as children in his latest effort to defuse the sex abuse crisis shaking his church, as thousands of people angered at the Vatican's response marched in central London in the biggest protest of his 5-year papacy.

Beloved by Americans, Impressionist master Claude Monet has long been a victim of a sort of Gallic snobbishness in his native France.

Oprah Winfrey is taking her audience to Australia.

They shrieked, they gasped, they cried, they hugged _ and that was before Oprah Winfrey's studio audience got a trip to Australia.