A powerful earthquake shook Italy's industrial and densely populated northeast early Sunday, killing at least six people, felling homes and factories and reducing historic buildings to rubble.   more

A rocket-propelled grenade exploded near a team of UN observers in a Damascus suburb on Sunday, the military said, as clashes between regime troops and armed rebels raged in and around the Syrian capital.   more

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people, died on Sunday, almost three years after being freed from jail on compassionate grounds.   more

Pakistan blocked Twitter on Sunday, accusing the microblogging site of refusing to remove posts promoting a Facebook competition involving caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.   more

NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen vowed Sunday there would be no rush to the exits in Afghanistan as more than 50 world leaders gathered for the defense alliance's biggest summit in history.   more

Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State University assistant American football coach accused of pedophilia, has won a brief delay in the start of his trial as lawyers seek a longer one.   more

Family and friends said goodbye to former NFL linebacker Junior Seau at a private funeral service on Friday, including former San Diego Chargers teammate LaDanian Tomlinson.   more

Veteran quarterback Vince Young signed a one-year NFL deal with the Buffalo Bills worth $2 million on Friday to serve as the backup for starter Ryan Fitzpatrick, the club announced.   more

Former NFL star Junior Seau committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest, autopsy results confirmed, according to San Diego County authorities.   more

Former NFL star Junior Seau was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home north of San Diego, authorities said.   more

Japanese newcomer Yu Darvish pitched another stellar Major League Baseball start for the Texas Rangers, striking out seven while allowing only one run in a 4-1 victory over Oakland.   more

Major League Baseball's 84th All-Star Game will be hosted in 2013 by the New York Mets at their three-year-old ballpark, $600 million Citi Field, commissioner Bud Selig announced on Wednesday.   more

Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Brett Lawrie was suspended for four games by Major League Baseball on Wednesday for a tirade against umpire Bill Miller in a home loss to Tampa Bay one night earlier.   more

Brian McNamee told jurors on Monday that he injected Roger Clemens with steroids in 1998 at the famed pitcher's request in key testimony at the perjury trial of the former Major league Baseball star.   more