World leaders back Greece, vow to combat financial turmoil
2012-05-20T00:28:18Z
CAMP DAVID, Maryland (Reuters) - World leaders backed keeping Greece in the euro zone on Saturday and vowed to take all steps necessary to combat financial turmoil while revitalizing a global economy increasingly threatened by Europe's debt crisis. A summit of the G8 leading industrialized nations came down solidly in favor of a push to balance European austerity - an approach long driven by German Chancellor Angela Merkel - with a new dose of U.S.-style stimulus seen as vital to healing ailing euro-zone economies. But it was clear that divisions remained. ...

Chinese activist who fled house arrest lands in US
2012-05-20T00:25:43Z
A blind Chinese legal activist who was suddenly allowed to leave the country arrived in the U.S. on Saturday, ending a nearly monthlong diplomatic tussle that had tested U.S.-China relations.

Mary Kennedy is mourned at private funeral in NY
2012-05-20T00:24:50Z
Family and friends gathered Saturday at a modest stone church in a hamlet north of New York City for the funeral of Mary Richardson Kennedy, the latest member of that charmed and cursed family to fall victim to tragedy and inner demons.

Earnhardt races way into Sprint All-Star race
2012-05-20T00:23:07Z
Dale Earnhardt Jr. didn't need the fan vote this year.

Briscoe puts Team Penske back on Indy 500 pole
2012-05-20T00:20:47Z
Roger Penske's strategy beat Michael Andretti by inches Saturday — 9.168 inches to be exact.

Triple Crown dreams often dashed at Belmont
2012-05-20T00:20:42Z
but fallen short in the Belmont Stakes. A look at how those thoroughbreds ran at Belmont:

Dufner carries lead into final round of Nelson
2012-05-20T00:07:59Z
Nine players had or shared the lead during the third round of the Byron Nelson Championship.

Spurs beat Clippers 96-86 to take 3-0 series lead
2012-05-20T00:01:48Z
Nothing was going to rattle the calm, cool and collected Spurs. Not even a 24-point deficit.

G8, raising pressure on Iran, puts oil stocks on standby
2012-05-19T23:52:52Z
CAMP DAVID, Maryland (Reuters) - Leaders of the Group of Eight major economies raised the pressure on Iran on Saturday, signaling their readiness to tap into emergency oil stockpiles quickly this summer if tougher new sanctions on Tehran threaten to strain supplies. "We remain united in our grave concern over Iran's nuclear program," the G8 leaders said in a statement summing up the results of their meeting in Camp David in rural Maryland. ...

On the curve
2012-05-19T23:52:20Z
World Champion Australian rider Casey Stoner rides his Honda during the qualifying session of the French MotoGP.