Pole vault world-record holder Yelena Isinbayeva came up short at a second straight major meet, finishing out of the medals Sunday at a world indoor championships highlighted by Teddy Tamgho's world record in the triple jump and Bernard Lagat's victory in the 3 ...

Jean Ferrat, a French singer-songwriter whose communist views saw many of his compositions banned from broadcast in the 1960s, died on Saturday, officials said. He was 79. "He died in hospital in Aubenas," where he had been admitted a few days earlier, the sub-prefecture in Tournon-sur-Rhone told AFP. As prolific as he was discreet, Ferrat wrote and performed about 200 ...

A Cuban hunger striker was receiving fluids and medical care in a government hospital Friday, a day after passing out at home, and has refused requests by other dissidents and religious leaders to abandon his protest. Guillermo Farinas was taken to a hospital in the central ...