Barcelona forward Lionel Messi scored a penalty against Levante on Saturday to match Cristiano Ronaldo's Spanish league record 41 goals in a season, set less than two hours earlier.Messi converted the 72nd-minute spot kick to give Barcelona a 2-1 victory and equal rival Ronaldo, who set the record with a 74th-minute header in Real Madrid's 3-1 victory over Sporting Gijon.Messi had trailed Ronaldo

The Secret Service was engulfed in a sex scandal on Saturday after a dozen agents assigned to President Barack Obama's trip to Colombia were sent home amid reports of them using prostitutes.Five US military personnel are also being investigated for misconduct said to have taken place at the same hotel where the Secret Service staff were staying in the resort city of Cartagena, and have been confin

A Alabama judge ordered a man to serve three days in jail for contempt of court for wearing so-called saggy pants.Twenty-year-old LaMarcus D. Ramsey was in Autauga County Circuit Court on Tuesday to enter a plea on a charge of receiving stolen property.Circuit Judge John Bush told Ramsey his blue jeans were sagging too low and gave him the three-day stint. The judge told Ramsey to buy pants that f

A lawyer in Georgia allegedly shot her Korean husband dead and fatally injured a woman before killing herself, according to local media Wednesday.The motive behind the shooting was not released yet, but local police said that the shooter’s husband had an affair with the unidentified female victim.Reports claimed that the suspect 44-year-old Sylvia Jean Junn, was an Asian immigrant attorney.Jun all

North Korea was poised Thursday to send a rocket into space as the nation's young leader ascended to new top political posts strengthening his hold on power.There was no word early Thursday morning on the timing of the launch, which the North has said will take place sometime between Thursday and Monday. The launch, which the North says is for peaceful purposes, has raised international concern.Th

North Korea's increasingly sophisticated missile technology is a concern to Asia and the United States, the new U.S. Pacific commander said Wednesday ahead of Pyongyang's planned rocket launch."We have seen over time the North Koreans pursue increasingly sophisticated ballistic missile defense technologies," Admiral Samuel Locklear, the head of the U.S. Pacific Command based in Hawaii, said in Tok

The Web site of the national election watchdog came under a cyber attack on the eve of Wednesday's general elections, watchdog officials said.The Web site was hit by a so-called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack late Tuesday between 10:27 p.m. and11:01 p.m., officials at the National Election Commission (NEC) said. A search engine on the Web site, which helps voters find their designated

Police in Ohio said a robber showed his ID to a store clerk before pulling out a handgun and demanding the money from the register.Xenia police said Hanson Price, 21, showed his driver's license to the clerk at the United Dairy Farmer's on West Second Street just after midnight March 30 to purchase a 59-cent Black and Mild Cigar and paid with a $1 bill before drawing his 9mm Lugar handgun and dema