By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - After months of speculation, Vodafone's (VOD.L) Vittorio Colao will be under pressure next week to set out whether he may sell its prized stake in Verizon Wireless in ...

REUTERS - Australia opening batsman David Warner will face a disciplinary hearing for his Twitter outburst against two senior Australian cricket journalists, the country's cricket board said on Sunday. ...

Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier headed to India on Sunday for his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute ...

Carpenter slays IndyCar giants to win 500 pole (Reuters) - Ed Carpenter upstaged IndyCar's biggest names and teams on Saturday to grab pole for the 97th Indianapolis 500. Carpenter, IndyCar's only owner/driver, delivered the big surprise on Pole Day at Indianapolis Motor Speedway clocking a four-lap average speed of 228.762 …

Rome protest turns up heat on new PM Letta ROME (Reuters) - Thousands of people protested in Rome on Saturday against austerity policies and high unemployment, urging new Prime Minister Enrico Letta to focus on creating jobs to help pull the country out of recession. "We hope that this government will finally start listening …

By Katharine Houreld and Syed Raza Hassan ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - An upmarket constituency of Pakistan's violence-plagued city of Karachi voted again under tight security on Sunday, a day after gunmen killed a senior politician from a reformist party in the district and a week after general elections. It was not immediately …

May 19 (Reuters) - Australian Matthew Griffin won the SK Telecom Open at South Korea's Jeju Island by one shot after Sunday's final round was called off due to heavy fog. A 40-foot putt from the back of the green on the 18th guaranteed him the third-round lead on Saturday and it turned out to be the winning shot at the …

Reuters sports schedule at 0600 GMT on Sunday: SOCCER Premier League season ends (1500 unless stated) Chelsea v Everton Liverpool v Queens Park Rangers Manchester City v Norwich City Newcastle United v Arsenal Southampton v Stoke City Swansea City v Fulham Tottenham Hotspur v Sunderland West Bromwich Albion v Manchester …

(Adds more Deans quotes) * Cooper omitted * Folau among three uncapped players * Smith, Polota-Nau ruled out by injury By Nick Mulvenney SYDNEY, May 19 (Reuters) - Australia coach Robbie Deans omitted flyhalf Quade Cooper but named Israel Folau and two other uncapped players in his preliminary squad of 25 on Sunday for …

By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When the Yemen-based branch of al Qaeda placed a bounty on her husband's head, Mary Feierstein learned of it from a friend who called and said, "You must be a mess!" U.S. Ambassador Gerald Feierstein was thousands of miles (km) away at the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, without his wife …

By Tabassum Zakaria and David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Under pressure to fight sexual assault, the U.S. armed forces in recent years rolled out education programs about proper sexual conduct through methods like role playing and video games. The increase in education has nevertheless failed to prevent what the nation's …

(Reuters) - Logan Couture scored early in overtime to help the San Jose Sharks to a 2-1 victory over the Stanley Cup champion Los Angeles Kings in Game Three of the NHL's Western Conference semi-finals on Saturday. The Sharks clawed back into the best of seven series after Couture took advantage of a power play penalty …

(Corrects Boca's record to 12 matches without a league win in opening para) By Rex Gowar BUENOS AIRES, May 18 (Reuters) - Boca Juniors ended a record worst run of 12 successive league matches without a victory with a 1-0 win over Colon but Juan Manuel Martinez's scream in celebration fell on deaf ears in La Bombonera on …