Venus beats Serena for 5th Wimbledon title – Baltimore Sun

Venus beats Serena for 5th Wimbledon title – Baltimore Sun
WIMBLEDON, England – Thrilled as she was to win her fifth Wimbledon singles championship, Venus Williams dialed down her celebration. No hopping in place and skipping to the net after match point, the way she’s done so often on that Centre Court lawn. No giddy laughter and whoops of joy, as she’s

Iran offers positive response to incentives – Baltimore Sun
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran delivered a “constructive” preliminary response yesterday to a package of incentives meant to persuade the nation to curtail parts of its nuclear program, European and Iranian officials said. Iran’s ambassador to Belgium delivered a letter signed by Foreign Minister Manoucher

Arrest made in London murders – Seattle Post Intelligencer
LONDON — British police arrested a suspect Saturday in the brutal murders of two French students who were tied up and stabbed scores of times before their bodies were set alight. The killings have shocked a country already worried by a spate of knife attacks involving young people; 18 teenagers

Jesse Helms, former U.S. senator from N.C., dead at 86 – Baltimore Sun
RALEIGH, N.C. – When telling stories about Jesse Helms after his death on Independence Day , the politician who took his place in Congress recalled how the North Carolina senator liked to invite pages to sit down and chat over ice cream. “Can you imagine how excited these young people would be

Smooth sailing for yacht builders despite economy – BusinessWeek
Fuel prices are soaring and credit markets tightening, but the super-rich are still lining up to pay tens of millions of dollars for mega yachts. The well-heeled buyers of the floating mansions are increasingly coming from emerging economies — in the Middle East, Russia and South America. The

Winds drive Calif. wildfires – Baltimore Sun
BIG SUR, Calif. – A pair of out-of-control wildfires roared along California’s central coast yesterday, chewing through opposite ends of a parched forest and threatening a total of more than 4,500 homes. While flames from the fire in the northern flank of the Los Padres National Forest inched closer

Police: Man rips off wax Hitler’s head – Seattle Post Intelligencer
In this July 3, 2008 file photo, a figure depicting former German dictator Adolf Hitler is displayed at the Madame Tussauds Berlin Wax Museum, in Berlin, on Thursday, July 3, 2008. Berlin police say a man has ripped off the head of the wax figure, shortly after the museum opened to the public on

Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal show how it’s done at Wimbledon – Los Angeles Times
WIMBLEDON, England — “Golden age,” a clich anyway, probably doesn’t suffice. Men’s tennis dwells in some sort of celestial phase of its history, the evidence aplenty Wednesday on Centre Court. Anybody who happened to sit through the matches of No. 1 Roger Federer and No. 2 Rafael Nadal in the

Bomb wounds 50 at concert in Belarus – Baltimore Sun
MINSK, Belarus A homemade bomb tore through a crowd that included the country’s authoritarian president early yesterday, wounding more than 50 people at an all-night holiday concert, health officials said. The blast was unusual in the tightly controlled former Soviet republic, where President