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Jamaican sprint king Usain Bolt is named Laureus World Sportsman of the Year for the second successive time at a star-studded ceremony in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday. Tennis star Serena Williams wins the women’s award.

David Beckham is mobbed by fans as he arrives for AC Milan’s Champions League tie against former club Manchester United but what part he will play in Wednesday’s match at Old Trafford is in some doubt.

Actor Corey Haim, who appeared in a number of movies during the 1980s, died early Wednesday of a possible drug overdose after being taken to a hospital, Los Angeles police said.

A Texas man who became enraged when a flight attendant refused to serve him alcohol and spent part of a flight locked in the lavatory has pleaded guilty to interfering with an airline flight crew.

Mexico asked the United States to move forward with creating a proposal to end a ban on cross-border trucking in violation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Some people who didn’t file a federal tax return for 2006 have more than 1 billion reasons to reconsider, but they need to do it fast, according to the Internal Revenue Service.

A New Jersey man who breached security to give his girlfriend a kiss, causing scores of flight delays, pleaded guilty Tuesday to defiant trespass, his lawyer said.

The body of a missing energy executive was pulled from the Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Tuesday, four days after he disappeared, a police spokesman said.

Cash is of little to no use for mushers along the isolated frontier trail that marks the self-titled “Last Great Race on Earth.” However, even the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has proven it’s not immune to a struggling economy.

A former Ohio doctor was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for poisoning his wife with cyanide five years ago.