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Detroit closer Jose Valverde survived another ninth-inning scare but held his nerve to preserve the Tigers' 5-4 win over the New York Yankees on Monday, giving them the upper hand in their American League divisional series.

Jordan Belfort, a former trader who ended up in jail in the 1990s for defrauding investors out of millions of dollars, is now an author and motivational speaker, with a movie about him starring Leonardo DiCaprio set to start filming soon.

Veteran actress Jessica Lange will make her television series debut in Glee creator Ryan Murphy's latest project, American Horror Story.

Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer failed to clinch his maximum bonus for the second year running due to the company's slow progress in mobile phones and adapting to the tablet computer revolution.

British model and actress Elizabeth Hurley is engaged to retired Australian cricketer Shane Warne, the couple confirmed via Twitter.

Angelina Jolie made a surprise appearance on Monday night at the U.N. refugee agency's ceremony to honor a Yemeni aid group credited with rescuing thousands of desperate Somali and other African refugees who arrive in southern Yemen each year.

Prosecutors in the manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson's doctor sought to prove Monday that his physician misled hospital doctors on the day of the singer's death, and was busy on his phone around the time the pop star stopped breathing.

Actor Seth Rogen married his long-term girlfriend, screenwriter Lauren Miller, in a ceremony on Sunday.

Sprint Nextel Corp has agreed to buy at least 30.5 million iPhones over the next four years, involving a commitment of about $20 billion, whether or not its customers want to buy the devices, according to a Wall Street Journal story.

A scientist who won the Nobel prize for medicine on Monday used his own discoveries to treat himself for cancer, but died of the disease just days before he could be told of the award.

A huge hole that appeared in the Earth's protective ozone layer above the Arctic in 2011 was the largest recorded in the Northern Hemisphere, triggering worries the event could occur again and be even worse, scientists said in a report on Monday.

Saw palmetto, a plant extract sold as a natural boost to urinary health, doesn't improve the symptoms of enlarged prostate in middle-aged men, a U.S. study said.

The 2011 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, was awarded on Monday to Bruce Beutler and Jules Hoffmann jointly for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity and the other half to Ralph Steinman for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity.

Health insurer Blue Shield of California has decided not to pay for Roche Holding's drug Avastin to treat breast cancer after health advisers said it was not safe or clinically beneficial.

California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill preventing local authorities from banning the practice of male circumcision.

Tiger Woods will plummet to depths he has not reached in 15 years as he is projected to drop two spots to 51st in the world rankings to be issued Monday.

The Detroit Tigers beat the New York Yankees 5-3 behind the masterful pitching of Max Scherzer and the hitting of Miguel Cabrera to level their best-of-five divisional playoff series at 1-1 Sunday.

The Detroit Lions erased a 24-point deficit to stun the Dallas Cowboys 34-30 Sunday and join the Green Bay Packers as the only undefeated teams in the National Football League (NFL).

Another gritty St. Louis comeback lifted the Cardinals to a 5-4 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday to tie their best-of-five divisional playoff series 1-1.

The Baltimore Ravens steamrolled the New York Jets 34-17 on Sunday on the back of three touchdowns from their defense to seize control of the AFC North and make it an uncomfortable night for former defensive coordinator Rex Ryan.

This year's Nobel Prize for Literature will be announced on Thursday, the Swedish Academy, which hands out the 10 million Swedish crown ($1.46 million) award, said on Monday.

Surviving ex-Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr joined director Martin Scorsese on the red carpet late on Sunday for the premiere of George Harrison: Living in the Material World.

Stella McCartney wove a playful pyjama party feel into her spring-summer 2012 collection on Monday with a breezy array of silk tunic dresses and loose-fitting print pant suits that could be effortlessly slipped into for a lazy country picnic.

Country singer Martina McBride is lighting up New York City this month, setting the Empire State Building awash in a pink glow to fight breast cancer as she launches an album that breaks new ground.

Rowan Atkinson is back as bumbling spy Johnny English in the sequel to his 2003 hit, but despite work on comic classics Not the Nine O'Clock News and Blackadder, the comedian does not find filming much fun.

California-based Manning Beef is recalling 80,000 pounds of beef products over possible E. coli contamination, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said.

An Amtrak passenger train and a farm truck collided Friday evening at a northern California rail crossing, and nearly 40 passengers were taken to hospitals for treatment of minor injuries, an Amtrak spokeswoman said on Saturday.

National Basketball Association (NBA) team owners and locked out players failed to reach agreement after a second straight day of labor talks on Saturday, saying they would meet again in New York Monday.

Robinson Cano crushed a grand slam home run to lift the New York Yankees to a 9-3 rout of the Detroit Tigers on Saturday and complete their rain-delayed opening game of the Major League Baseball (MLB) playoffs.