Birmingham City avenged their FA Cup quarterfinal defeat at Portsmouth on Saturday, beating the English Premier League bottom side 2-1 to nudge them closer to relegation on Tuesday.

The state may drop up to 500 contract positions.

The Welsh Rugby Union has confirmed that international player Andy Powell has been dropped from the national side after he was charged of drink-driving a golf cart by British police.

Unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr claims he will defeat WBO welterweight world champion Manny Pacquiao when the two boxing giants lock horns next year.

Meditation affects us more deeply than we think.

Kirsten Dunst performs The Vapors’ “Turning Japanese” in this bizarre McG/Takashi Murakami collaboration.

The fastest man in the world is starting his season soon.

Bloggers react to the announcement of Twitter’s @anywhere platform.

The father of a fallen solder fights his legal battle against all odds, with a little help from his new friends.

German Bundesliga champions Wolfsburg have sacked coach Armin Veh with immediate effect after a disappointing season in defence of their title.

Throughout the entire 2008 and the better part of 2009, we’ve reported on Facebook and Twitter’s explosive growth. Month after month , we’ve seen tremendous numbers from both these services, while some giants of old, such as MySpace, dropped lower and lower. Somewhere in June, however, Twitter stopped growing , at least according to Compete. The same thing happened to Facebook at the exact same time; at first we’ve attributed the traffic numbers to the summer slumber, but now that Compete