LONDON (AP) — As construction crews wrap up their work in London's Olympic Park, the pressure to deliver in those new venues is shifting to Britain's athletes leading up to the 2012 Games.
The British team hopes to match its fourth-place finish in the medals table at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, where it exceeded expectations …
PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) — PepsiCo Inc. has found its recipe for success in this economic environment: raise prices and grow overseas.
PepsiCo, like many U.S. companies, recently have faced a balancing act during this period of global economic uncertainty. Many consumer brands from McDonald's to Nike have raised prices as they try to offset their higher costs for ingredients, packaging and fuel. At the same time, they've had to look elsewhere to expand their business as consumers in developed markets like the U.S. have cut back on spending.
PepsiCo, maker of such products as Mt. Dew soda, Gatorade drink and Lay's potato chips, showed Wednesday that the emphasis on higher prices …
If you are female and among the 10 percent of the U.S. population that suffers from chronic widespread pain, such as that associated with fibromyalgia, getting the right amount of vitamin D may help. In a new study published in the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases, researchers measured the vitamin D levels of almost 7,000 subjects and recorded information about their bodily pain. The researchers found that the correlation …
Two dozen retired police officers were convicted Wednesday of human rights violations linked to the 1973 massacre of 30 political prisoners _ the biggest group of defendants ever sentenced in such a trial in Chile.
Judge Emma Diaz convicted the former officers on charges involving the detention, torture and shooting of 31 leftists whose bodies were dumped in a fast-flowing river days after Chile's military coup. One woman survived to testify about the incident.
Retired police Col. Adrian Fernandez, 66, was given a maximum sentence of life in prison, while the others received lesser sentences ranging between four and 20 years, a statement from Chile's …
Shinzo Koroki scored twice Wednesday as Kashima Antlers thrashed Singapore Armed Forces 5-0 to move a step closer to the knockout round of the Asian Champions League.
Takuya Nozawa opened the scoring for the J-League champions with a header in the 29th minute and Koroki doubled the lead 10 minutes later off a pass from Mitsuo Ogasawara.
Ogasawara put the game out of reach with a goal in the 50th …
T housands of American vacationers are getting burned this summer -and not by the sun. The warm-weather wanderers are falling prey tocold-hearted hucksters offering non-existent "bargain vacations of alifetime."
Unfortunately, the "good buy" that the scam operators areoffering is a quick way for vacationers to say "goodbye" to theirhard-earned savings, warns the Federal Trade Commission, whichestimates that deceptive selling practices are defrauding Americantravelers out of millions of dollars each month. To make mattersworse, increasing numbers of travelers are being cheated during thesehard economic times, just when they're looking for ways to get themost vacation …
TORONTO (AP) — Esi Edugyan has won one of Canada's most prestigious literary awards for a novel about a group of black jazz musicians trying to survive in Europe during World War II.
Edugyan won the Scotiabank Giller Prize for her book "Half-Blood Blues" on Tuesday. She thanked her father, Kweku, an immigrant from Ghana who …
