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  • US captain Corey Pavin predicts close Ryder Cup

    The U.S. and European Ryder Cup captains predict the trophy will be won by a single putt on the final day.


  • BOOK REVIEW: 'My Father's Places'

    The cover of "My Father's Places" pictures author Aeronwy Thomas as a curly-haired, 8- or 9-year-old smoking a cigarette, and instantly it prompts the question: What were her parents thinking of?


  • Pope Benedict XVI arrives by "Popemobile" for the Prayer Vigil, as seen on a large screen, at Hyde Park in London Saturday Sept. 18, 2010. (AP Photo / Chris Ison, Pool)

    Pope meets with abuse victims amid mass protest

    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.


  • This is an undated image of  Micky Burn made available Monday Sept. 13, 2010 by family friend James Dorrian.  Burn, a British journalist, novelist and World War II commando who flirted with fascism, embraced communism and helped save the life of Audrey Hepburn, has died at the age of 97.  Burn died Sept. 3 at his home near Porthmadog in north Wales after suffering a stroke, his friend James Dorrian said Monday Sept. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/James Dorrian. Ho)

    British writer and commando Micky Burn dies at 97

    Micky Burn, a British journalist, novelist and World War II commando who flirted with fascism, embraced communism and helped save the life of Audrey Hepburn, has died at the age of 97.


  • Tiger Woods reads the green on the first hole during the final round at the Deutsche Bank Championship golf tournament at TPC Boston, in Norton, Mass., Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)

    Woods, Johnson, Cink, Fowler picked for Ryder Cup squad

    Tiger Woods was a no-brainer as a captain's pick for the Ryder Cup.


  • Tiger Woods reads the green on the first hole during the final round at the Deutsche Bank Championship golf tournament at TPC Boston, in Norton, Mass., Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)

    Tiger, Fowler among Ryder Cup picks

    Tiger Woods is going to the Ryder Cup as a captain's pick with his 71 victories and 14 majors. So is 21-year-old Rickie Fowler, who has never won anything at all.


  • Tour officials hampered by UK tax rules

    European Tour officials are in talks with the British government to change tax rules which could deter leading golfers from playing in the Ryder Cup in October.


  • Culture Briefs

    "Canada's misguided experiment with multiculturalism pretends that all cultural ideas are equal, and Canadian values, such as the equality of men and women, are no better than foreign values like the subjugation of women," writes Ezra Levant at the Toronto Sun.


  • What's Jay-Z's state of mind over spoof?

    An online parody of a Jay-Z hit that swaps New York's metropolis for a modest Welsh port town has won hundreds of thousands of fans, the director of the spoof said Wednesday.


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