LAS VEGAS — The Orleans Arena had all but cleared out, save for a few still-beaming fans of the Saint Mary's College basketball team, when center Omar Samhan stood atop a ladder, cut the last threads off the net and put it around his neck. Finally, he and the Gaels had reached the top. "I wanted ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mike Dunleavy and the Los Angeles Clippers parted company for good Tuesday, barely a month after he relinquished his head coaching duties to focus solely on being general manager. Now that arrangement is over, with the team announcing his departure in an e-mailed statement ...
CLEVELAND (AP) -- LeBron James was in street clothes. Shaquille O'Neal was nowhere to be found, and Antawn Jamison was in the locker room icing his sore knee. If they had lost, the Cleveland Cavaliers had plenty of excuses. They didn't have to use one. Mo Williams made two free throws with 9 seconds ...
Nigeria must prosecute those behind a weekend massacre and address underlying issues of poverty and discrimination if it is to end a cycle of violence in the zone between its Muslim north and Christian south, rights groups and diplomats said. The ...
... AP) — Hundreds of protesters in Nigeria's capital are demanding to see the ailing president ... But Yar'Adua's party says the next presidential candidate must be from the Muslim north, ruling out the Christian Jonathan.
The governor of Nigeria's Plateau state has accused military commanders of ignoring warnings of an attack on Sunday near the city of Jos. Hundreds died during attacks on three villages in the area between the mainly Christian south and Muslim north ...
JOS, Nigeria - Witnesses say soldiers in a Nigerian town at the centre of a spate of religious killings opened fire on a crowd of youths that had surrounded a cattle truck driving after curfew. A nurse told The Associated Press on Wednesday that at least two were killed and five others injured in
Benin — WORRIED by the mass failure of students in English Language and Mathematics in West African Examinations Council, WAEC, and National Examinations Council, NECO, examinations, a member of the House of Representatives, the member representing Orhionmwon/Uhunmwode Federal Constituency, Mr
... government decision-making, threatening an amnesty program in the oil-producing Niger Delta and stalling momentum on reforms. Several hundred people, many wearing T-shirts with "Save Nigeria Group ... to see him," Babatunde Ogala, a politician ...
Map locates Jos, Nigeria, where nearby sectarian violence left hundreds dead Photo: AP / AP Medics assist a victims of violence in Jos, Nigeria, Sunday March 7, 2010. Rioters armed with machetes slaughtered more than 200 people including a 4-day-old ...
