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Texas' Elvis Andrus had a career-high five hits as the Rangers beat Detroit 7-2 on Saturday, dropping the Tigers out of first place in the American League Central division. Also Saturday, Colorado scored 10 runs against the Los Angeles Dodgers for the second straight day, Cincinnati also reached double figures…

A 20-year-old female university student was attacked by a knife-wielding man while on her way home from a part-time job in Atsugi, Kanagawa prefecture, at about 2 a.m. Sunday. Police quoted the woman as saying the man was standing near a vending machine and when she walked by, he lunged…

Two elderly people perished in a house fire Saturday night in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, police said Sunday. Police said that flames were seen coming form the second floor of the two-story wooden house at around 10 p.m. Saturday. NTV reported that it took firefighters four hours to extinguish the blaze.…

A single winning ticket for a record U.S. Powerball lottery jackpot worth $590.5 million was sold in Florida, organizers said late on Saturday, but there was no immediate word about who won or where in the state the ticket was bought. The winning numbers from Saturday night's drawing were: 10,…

A cabinet minister on Sunday defended a surprise visit to North Korea by one of the prime minister's aides which Washington and Seoul said could not help efforts to forge a united front against Pyongyang. Akira Amari, state minister of economic revitalisation, said the four-day trip by Isao Iijima reflected…

Indiana moved into the NBA Eastern Conference finals with a 106-99 win over the New York Knicks on Saturday, with a Roy Hibbert block sparking a late 11-2 run that sealed a 4-2 series victory. Hibbert's block on Carmelo Anthony midway through the fourth quarter shifted the momentum of the…

Logan Couture scored a power-play goal 1:29 into overtime to help the San Jose Sharks bounce back from two losses in Los Angeles to beat the Kings 2-1 in Game 3 of their second-round series on Saturday night. Dan Boyle scored a power-play goal early in the first period and…

Announced last Friday in Japan, JVC’s new powerful camcorder the GC-P100 is the sport oriented or action amateur filmmaker dream comes true! Indeed thanks to JVC’s Falcon Bird technology the GC-P100 is capable to shoot by default Full HD 60p videos in 36Mbps as well as stunning 600fps ones in 320×176! Announced at around 130,000 Yen and set to arrive in Japan at the end of May, the GC-P100 comes with a 12.76Mpix CMOS sensor, a JVC HD GT Lens with a 10x optical zoom, IS, Zoom Position Memory, a 3″ Monitor and additional 0.24 Viewfinder and support both SDHC and SDXC Cards. Finally one more interesting feature on the GC-P100 is its 4sec shutter speed function design to give you stunningly clear videos at night without suffering from too much visible noise. JVC GC-P100

Myanmar President Thein Sein on Saturday began the first visit to Washington by a leader of his country in nearly 50 years as the United States throws its support behind his reforms. The former general, who initiated a wave of reforms after taking office in 2011, flew into Washington and…

Wrestling's governing body is pinning its hopes of keeping the sport in the Olympics after 2016 on rule changes designed to make matches more exciting and easier to understand. The federation, known by the acronym FILA, is also changing its constitution to include a female vice president and will increase…