Before opening the 2008 season, the Phoenix Mercury will receive their championship rings and raise their title banner to the rafters of the US Airways Center. The Los Angeles Sparks, meanwhile, are just one year removed from finishing with the worst record in the WNBA, but have their sights set on a championship run of their own this season.
The Republican presidential candidate is seeking to bolster his appeal to voters on economic issues by speaking to some of those hardest hit in the recent downturn: auto workers.
AFP - Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday urged hundreds of thousands of young Catholics to beat back a "spiritual desert" spreading through the modern world as he closed Catholic World Youth Day in Australia.
Reuters - Tens of thousands of people filled
Nicaragua's capital on Saturday to celebrate the country's 1979
leftist revolution, giving a lift to President Daniel Ortega as
his government faces simmering protests.
