CHINA 3 sent to prison in needle attack mystery BEIJING — A court in the Xinjiang region sentenced three people to up to 15 years in prison in the first trials over a series of mysterious syringe attacks that have fueled ethnic unrest. The three were ethnic Uighurs. More than 500 people, mostly ethnic Han, [...]

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – There was blood speckling and streaking his UCLA No. 14 jersey. His aching right knee was stained by the grass, and his arms were scratched and chafed by the hands of the Tennessee defenders who wanted a piece of him. Limping off the Neyland Stadium field on Saturday night after the Bruins’ [...]

RICHMOND, Va. — NASCAR has made do without a Gordon, an Earnhardt and a Stewart at various times in its annual Chase for the Big Spittoon, so postseason star power isn’t quite mandatory as far as the folks in Daytona Beach are concerned. That said, it wouldn’t hurt for Mike Helton and Co., to figure [...]

BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces off in a live television debate Sunday night against challenger Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who needs a strong performance to lift his struggling center-left party’s prospects two weeks before elections. The prime-time debate is being shown on four public and private channels. It is the only head-to-head duel of a [...]

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The death of Juan Almeida Bosque, a vice president who was one of the last giants of Cuba’s 1959 revolution, plunged the island into mourning yesterday and was a stark reminder of the mortality of all of Cuba’s aging leaders — including brothers Raul and Fidel Castro. A statement in government media said Mr. Almeida [...]