Pujols deal completed; worth $240M over 10 years
NEW YORK (AP) — Albert Pujols officially joined the Los Angeles Angels on Thursday when Major League Baseball and the players’ association confirmed the terms of the first baseman’s 10-year contract and agreed its guaranteed value is $240 million. The…
Tuna fetches record $736K in Tokyo
TOKYO (AP) — This tuna is worth savouring: It cost nearly three-quarters of a million dollars. A bluefin tuna caught off northeastern Japan fetched a record 56.49 million yen, or about $736,000, Thursday in the first auction of the year…
Stephen Hawking to turn 70, defying disease
CAMBRIDGE, England (AP) — British scientist Stephen Hawking has decoded some of the most puzzling mysteries of the universe but he has left one mystery unsolved: How he has managed to survive so long with such a crippling disease. The…
Titanic items to be sold 100 years after sinking
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Items as small as a hairpin and as big as a chunk of the Titanic’s hull are among 5,000 artifacts from the world’s most famous shipwreck that are to be auctioned in April, close to the…
Landslide kills 25, buries more in Philippines
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A landslide tore through a small-scale gold mining site in the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least 25 people and burying dozens more, months after government officials warned miners that the mountain above them was…
New iPhone will be available in Cayman
Apple have announced that the iPhone 4S will be available in the Cayman Islands. Untill now only a select number of countries were able to boast and flaunt their iPhone 4S. But Apple has made the happy announcement that the…
Host Senators assured 4 All-Star starters
NEW YORK (AP) — The Ottawa Senators are assured of having at least four familiar faces on the ice when they host the NHL All-Star game this month. Defenseman Erik Karlsson led all vote-getters in fan balloting, and captain Daniel…
Marlins acquire Zambrano from Cubs
MIAMI (AP) — Carlos Zambrano will get a much-needed fresh start with the Miami Marlins. The Chicago Cubs traded their former ace Wednesday for Marlins right-hander Chris Volstad, pending physicals and approval by Major League Baseball, a person familiar with…
City lose Toure brothers for United clash
Ivory Coast coach Francois Zahoui has rejected Manchester City’s request to play Yaya and Kolo Toure in Sunday’s Manchester derby in the FA Cup. “Clubs know the rules,” Zahoui told BBC Africa. “I’m expecting them [the Toures] for the Fifa…
Men get 14 and 15 years for UK black teen’s murder
LONDON (AP) — A British judge sentenced two men yesterday to at least 14 years in prison for stabbing a black teenager to death in London almost two decades ago — a crime that exposed racism within the police and…
