New York Knicks` Jeremy Lin (17) drives against New Orleans Hornets` Chris Kaman an NBA basketball game on Friday, Feb. 17. (AP-Yonhap News)The cable television sports network ESPN has apologized for using a racial slur in a headline for a story on Knicks sensation Jeremy Lin.ESPN ran the headline “

A snowed covered car sits roadside in the woods north of Umea in Northern Sweden on Saturday. (AFP)A man was pulled alive from a snowed-in car on a deserted forest road in northern Sweden where he had been stranded and without food for at least two months in freezing temperatures, police said Saturd

UNITED NATIONS (AP) ― The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Thursday for a resolution backing an Arab League plan calling for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down and strongly condemning human rights violations by his regime.The vote in the 193-member world body on the Arab-sponsored resolution was 137-12 with 17 abstentions. Several countries complained immediately afterward that they unable to vote due to problems with the U.N.’s voting machine.Russia and China, who vetoed a sim

European authorities are considering cutting interest rates: officialsGermany wants euro-area finance chiefs to avoid splitting consideration of a 130 billion-euro ($171 billion) Greek rescue and a bond swap to cut the nation’s debt load at a meeting next week, coalition lawmakers were told by German government officials in a briefing. As long as Greece meets conditions for the aid, the finance chiefs will probably approve the package along with the debt exchange, three German officials involved

DETROIT (AP) ― General Motors earned its largest profit ever in 2011, two years after it nearly collapsed.Strong sales in the U.S. and China helped the carmaker turn a profit of $7.6 billion, beating its old record of $6.7 billion in 1997 during the pickup and SUV boom.GM is a vastly different company than it was back then. It’s smaller, has less debt and its contract with the United Auto Workers is less costly. But it took a $49.5 billion government bailout and bankruptcy protection in 2009 to

HONG KONG (AP) ― China is poised to overtake India to become the world’s biggest gold market this year as rising incomes fuel demand for the precious metal and a weak rupee diminishes Indian purchases, an industry group said Thursday. The amount of gold bought in China rose 20 percent in 2011 over the year before to 770 metric tons, the World Gold Council said in its annual report. That put China behind only first-place India, where 933 metric tons were bought. Worldwide, the amount of gold purc

DETROIT (AP) ― An aggressive Rick Santorum attacked Mitt Romney on multiple fronts, challenging the Republican front-runner’s economic policies, values and consistency in the city of Romney’s birth.Polls show Santorum has risen to a virtual tie with Romney, and the former Pennsylvania senator on Thursday criticized his rival’s record on federal bailouts in particular, though both men opposed the government’s decision to rescue the auto industry.“Gov. Romney supported the bailout of Wall Street a

In this Sept. 18, 2005 file photo a M-346 from Italy's Pony aerobatic team, performs during an airshow at the air-force base of Tanagra, 70 kilometers (about 43 miles) north of Athens. (AP)Israel has reached a $1 billion preliminary deal to buy 30 Italian military training jets, Israeli defense offi

SANAA (AFP) - The killing of a local Al-Qaeda leader by his half brother sparked vicious tribal infighting in his stronghold southeast of Yemen's capital Sanaa on Thursday which left 17 people dead, tribal chiefs said.The clashes erupted after Tarek al-Dahab was shot dead by his half-brother Hizam i