
With the field down to 16 teams, the knockout stage of the basketball world championship begins Saturday with two highly anticipated matchups.

Mike Krzyzewski's college kids were overmatched, his NBA All-Stars a bit unready.

Even the old guy found something new in the young Americans' debut.

David Nalbandian of Argentina reached his first final in 1 1/2 years by overwhelming 13th-ranked Marin Cilic of Croatia 6-2, 6-2 at the Legg Mason Tennis Classic on Saturday night.
Egypt said Wednesday it has received U.S. assurances that may help in restarting direct peace talks between the Palestinians and Israel.

Across the nation, veterinarians are practicing ever more advanced medicine on the nation's 77 million dogs, 90 million cats and myriad other animals — treatments that vie with the best of human medicine.

As the Davis Cup wraps up, Argentina and serbia will join France and the Czech Republic to make up the final four.

In a world in which sectarian divisions fuel some of the most violent confrontations, the interfaith movement has emerged as a force in American religion like never before.
For years, they were the picture of solidarity — the four children of Martin Luther King carrying on the legacy of the civil rights icon. But a lawsuit over how their father's estate is being run has left a rift in one of the world's most famous families.