London: Some up and downs in the career of David Beckham, who said on Thursday he would retire from football at the end of the season:
Up: Signs professional contract with Manchester United in 1993 and helps team win Premier League-FA Cup double in 1996. United wins league title again a year later.
Down: Gets red card for kicking Diego Simeone in England's second-round match against Argentina at 1998 World Cup in France. Some angry England fans blame him for loss and hang him in effigy.
Up: Helps Man United win Champions League-Premier League-FA Cup treble in 1999, and becomes captain of England in 2000. In 2001, scores last-second free kick against Greece to qualify England for 2002 World Cup....
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10:21 PM, May 16, 2013
Washington: A passenger was booted off an American Airlines flight en route from Los Angeles to New York Monday when she would not stop singing Whitney Houston's hit 'I Will Always Love You'. The plane's pilot made an unscheduled stop in Kansas City about halfway through the six-hour flight after passengers and crew complained about the woman's incessant singing. American Airlines spokesman Joe McBride told local Kansas City KCTV that...
11:40 AM, May 14, 2013
In this photo from 1997, Beverly Hills, 'The Backstreet Boys' donate an outfit from their world tour to Planet Hollywood's world renown collection of memorabilia. In this Los Angeles, California April 22, 2013 image the Backstreet Boys (from L-R) Howie Dorough, Kevin Richardson, AJ McLean, Nick Carter and Brian Littrell touch their star after it was unveiled on the Walk of Fame. ...
11:16 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Los Angeles: A Los Angeles college campus was evacuated on Thursday after the university received a telephoned bomb threat, but no explosives were found during a search of the campus, police said. Los Angeles Police Department spokesman Commander Andrew Smith said the college made the decision to close the campus of California State University, Los Angeles, and evacuate staff and students. "The CSULA campus is closed as of noon, April...
09:04 AM, Apr 19, 2013
In a bizarre incident, a man in the US shot dead family dog and sliced open its stomach to retrieve his son's finger that was bitten off and swallowed by the canine. ...
06:03 PM, Apr 02, 2013
Keane, the all-time record scorer for Ireland with 54 goals, was hurt playing in the 0-0 draw at Sweden on Friday ...
07:50 AM, Mar 25, 2013
The USOC is deciding whether to bid for the 2024 Games and recently sent a letter to 35 of America's largest cities to gauge interest. ...
02:52 PM, Mar 09, 2013
"It's just my feeling. I don't think players are that sophisticated in tennis. It's not their culture. I don't think it's in their nature," the 14-time Grand Slam champion said. ...
05:47 PM, Mar 05, 2013
The origin of the name 'Oscar' is uncertain. While one biography of Bette Davis claims she named the statuette after husband Harmon Oscar Nelson, another story claims the Academy's executive secretary remarked that the statue looked like her "Uncle Oscar". The award was formally called by the name in 1939, a decade after its establishment. ...
06:25 PM, Feb 26, 2013
The 37-year-old has been included in the Ligue 1 leaders' squad for the first time since joining the wealthy club last month. ...
10:20 AM, Feb 24, 2013
The extraordinary manhunt for the former Los Angeles police officer suspected of three murders converged on Tuesday on a mountain cabin where authorities believe he barricaded himself inside, engaged in a shootout that killed a deputy and then never emerged as the home went up in flames. ...
09:51 AM, Feb 13, 2013
A fugitive former police officer accused of a revenge-fueled killing spree barricaded himself in a cabin in the mountains northeast of Los Angeles on Tuesday after a gunfight with police that left at least two officers wounded, police said. ...
09:46 AM, Feb 13, 2013
Beckham has not played since his last appearance for the Los Angeles Galaxy on December 1 and is working his way back into shape. ...
09:50 PM, Feb 07, 2013
Rupert Sanders' wife has filed for divorce five months after it was revealed the director had a brief affair with actress Kristen Stewart. ...
05:50 PM, Jan 29, 2013
Djokovic will team with his idol Sampras to play Bryan brothers in a doubles exhibition on March 4. ...
11:59 AM, Jan 18, 2013
Here is a look at the Golden Globe Awards, which will be held on January 13 in Los Angeles by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. ...
12:22 PM, Jan 08, 2013
Los Angeles police say the photographer, was not identified and died at a hospital there. ...
06:40 PM, Jan 02, 2013
Beckham ended his five-year stint in the United States by helping the Galaxy win the MLS Cup on Dec. 1. ...
11:36 AM, Dec 28, 2012
Washington: Legendary sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar would receive the lifetime achievement Grammy award, organisers of the top music award announced on Thursday. Shankar would receive the award posthumous on February 10 at the 55th Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, said the Recording Academy, which gives the prestigious Grammy Awards. The sitar maestro, who popularised Indian classical music in the West and had a major influence on The Beatles'...
09:57 AM, Dec 13, 2012
London: A 49-year-old chef from Los Angeles faces life in prison for murder after he told police he boiled his wife's body for four days to hide the evidence, a media report said. According to the Daily Mirror, David Viens stuffed his wife's body in a 55-gallon drum of boiling water and kept it submerged with weights. In a recorded interrogation presented by prosecutors at the trial in Los Angeles,...
08:47 PM, Sep 28, 2012
