NEW YORK

Pittsburgh residents flooded to the streets on Sunday as three batmobile tumblers cruised down the street followed by a live fight between Batman and Bane.

Anyone who complains that WOMAD is "too safe" must have missed the mosh pit that appeared at the front of gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello?'s late Sunday set, where the frenetic dancing of the band's teenage fans briefly descended into cheerful anarchy.

Testimony from 122,000 college students yields the nation's best party schools

"The Dark Knight Rises" began filming in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania on July 29.

Free-agent wide receiver Plaxico Burress recently signed a one-year deal with the New York Jets on Sunday. The deal is worth $3 million, according to a video on the National Football League Web site.

In the rush to strike a debt deal to raise the debt ceiling and avoid a U.S. Government default, one question has been overlooked: will the debt deal increase or decrease the U.S. unemployment rate?

South Africa's rand fell against the dollar on Monday as a set of weak international manufacturing data reawakened worries about the global economy, prompting investors to go for traditional safe-haven trades.

Banks around the world are likely to keep slashing jobs in order to compete better in what is a cut-throat global business.

The Yankees GM holds off on a trade.

Matt Damon delivers moving speech in protest against standardized testing.

Escaping the heat wave as high temperatures continue through August.

Market cheers job cuts, streamlining.

Trinidadian Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar told the Trinidad Express that she was advised that the crash happened because of low visibility because of the rainfall. She also said decisions were made that if the airplane couldn't safely land then it would return to Trinidad.

Foxconn has announced that it would be replacing its workers with 1 million robots in the coming three years.

Isolated North Korea said on Monday it had agreed to further dialogue with the United States, and repeated it was willing to resume regional nuclear disarmament talks at an early date, without preconditions.

The manager refused to say anything on the Fabregas issue.

China said on Monday that Islamic militants had mounted an attack that left 11 people dead in the restive western region of Xinjiang, which announced a crackdown on "illegal" religious activities at the start of the Muslim fasting month.

Arsenal had the misfortune of being booed by their own supporters even before the beginning of the season, as an own goal cost them a win against New York Red Bulls in the Emirates Cup.

Global financial markets reflected relief over the resolution of debt limit ceiling impasse in the U.S.

President Barack Obama said on Sunday that Democrat and Republican leaders had reached an agreement to reduce the U.S. deficit and avoid default, but it was not clear if the spending cuts were deep enough to stave off a credit rating downgrade. The White House said the compromise would cut about $2.5 trillion from the deficit over the next 10 years but the reductions would not happen so quickly that they would drag on the fragile U.S. economy.

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