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Aug. 13 The border between East and West Berlin is closed and barbed wire and fencing is erected; concrete appears two days later. The wall would eventually grow to be a 96-mile barrier encircling West Berlin. Aug. 15 Conrad Schumann,...

The American is being paid $A3.3 million in appearance fees as the headline act for the Australian Masters at Kingston Heath starting on Thursday. He comes into the Masters off a sixth placing at the World Golf Championships tournament in...

The US led a backlash against the “Tobin tax” on financial transactions after Mr Brown took a Group of 20 finance ministers’ meeting by surprise with his proposal at the gathering in St Andrews, Scotland. In private briefings, UK officials...

Kris Brown�s 42-yard field goal attempt went wide, left, on the final play of the game Sunday and the Indianapolis Colts escaped Lucas Oil Stadium 20-17 winners over the Houston Texans. Peyton Manning threw for more than 300 yards for...

A total of 54 people died Sunday in El Salvador as the Central American country was besieged by heavy rains, flooding and landslides, authorities said. The Salvadoran newspaper, El Dairio de Hoy, said the highest casualty count took place in...

A Carson Palmer pass, a Cedrick Benson run and a field goal, all in the first half, accounted for Cincinnati's scoring Sunday in a 17-7 win over Baltimore. Palmer connected with Andrew Caldwell for a 6-yard touchdown and Benson ran...

Song had five birdies and one bogey in the final round and ended up at 15-under 201 for the 54-hole tournament. That was three strokes better than runners-up Brittany Lang, Lorena Ochoa and Park Hee-young...Ochoa's round Sunday was 32-32 with...

MSN Web portal a long-overdue makeover and says it hopes the new site will funnel more people to Bing, the software maker's search engine. Microsoft is ditching the heavy blue background and stack of tiny text and menus across the...

To receive updated content, refresh the page (F5 for a web browser). Matthew Etherington didn't think he'd be able to score with a mouthful of Minstrels, but he did. Photograph: Carl Recine/Action Images Preamble Good afternoon...The electricity in the air,...

Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, arrived in this picturesque town in Arunachal Pradesh on Sunday on a four-day visit which has drawn widespread interest in the wake of objections raised by China. The 74-year-old Tibetan monk, who flew here...