Ilya Kovalchuk scored his second goal of the game in overtime, giving Russia its first title at the world hockey championships since 1993 with a 5-4 win Sunday over...

Maxim Afinogenov scored two goals, Alex Ovechkin added another and Alexei Morozov had the winner in the shootout to give Russia a 4-3 victory over Belarus in a...

Canadian skip Kevin Martin won his first title in the Canada World Men’s Curling Championship on Sunday, scoring two points in the ninth end in a 6-3 victory over...

Ryan Lochte set his fourth world record of the week at the short-course swimming world championships Sunday. Three other world marks were also broken in the final...

Markus Rogan can shed the label of eternal runner-up.

Kirsty Coventry broke the world’s oldest short-course record on Saturday.

Swimmers attacked the record book again Friday at the short-course world championships.

The South Korean city of Yeosu was chosen to host the 2012 World’s Fair, beating out contenders in Morocco and Poland, organizers said Monday.

A “meteorite” has slammed into the ground near Georgia’s Fort Yargo State Park.

A local court cleared defending champion Paolo Bettini to compete in Sunday’s world championship road race despite the Italian cyclist’s refusal to sign an...