Yuliia Starodubtseva, who entered the week on a six-match losing streak, is through to the quarterfinals ​of the Abierto GNP ‌Seguros event in Monterrey, Mexico. The 26-year-old Ukrainian upset seventh-seeded Janice Tjen of Indonesia 6-4, 6-3 in the s...

Aug 26 (Reuters) - Olympic gold medallist Alysa Liu said on Tuesday she will sit out the ​upcoming season to fine-tune her ‌technique but reassured fans she would return to the sport. Liu became the first American woman since 2002 to capture Olympic go...

Two days after ejecting Enes Kanter Freedom from Wintrust Arena during a game, the Chicago Sky announced Tuesday that they have banned the former NBA player from the building. Kanter Freedom, sitting courtside during the Sky's 113-90 loss to the ​Indi...

Wild-card entrant Martin Damm needed just 1 hour, 22 minutes to knock out No. 1 seed Daniil Medvedev of Russia ​7-5, 6-3 in second-round action on ‌Tuesday at the Winston-Salem Open in North Carolina. The 6-foot-8 Damm used his length at the net to pu...

ATLANTA -- Rory McIlroy may not be involved with any PGA Tour player committees any longer, but he still often speaks his mind on matters like the future of the sport. When McIlroy sat behind the microphone Tuesday at his pre-tournament press conferen...

By Danielle Broadway Aug 25 (Reuters) - Dolly Parton, the irrepressible country music singer whose charisma, heartfelt lyrics and support of causes she believed in captured the public's imagination for nearly six decades, died on Tuesday aged 80. No ca...

LOS ANGELES Aug 25 (Reuters) - California Attorney General Rob Bonta said on Tuesday there are no settlement talks scheduled with Paramount Skydance to resolve the antitrust suit seeking to block the studio's proposed $110 billion ​acquisition of Warne...

Aug 25 (Reuters) - Dolly Parton was around six when she wrote her first song: "Little Tiny Tasseltop," an ode to her corncob doll with corn-silk hair. Her mother stored it preciously in a shoebox. "I loved that little doll," Parton wrote decades later....

(Refiles to remove extraneous text in paragraph two) By Jody Godoy Aug 24 (Reuters) - California Attorney General Rob Bonta canceled a meeting with Paramount Skydance representatives scheduled for Monday to begin settlement talks over the state's lawsu...

ROME, Aug 24 (Reuters) - A documentary examining Israel's killing of civilians in Gaza was added to the Venice Film Festival line-up on Monday, the second year running that a highly charged work about ​the conflict has competed for the prestigious Gold...