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Manchester United have accepted a world-record $130 million offer for Cristiano Ronaldo from Real Madrid.

Pete Sampras already figured Roger Federer would go down as the greatest tennis player in history. That Federer tied Sampras' record of 14 Grand Slam titles by winning the French Open on Sunday only reinforced that opinion. "What he's done over the past five years has never, ever been done -- and probably will never, ever happen again," Sampras said in a telephone interview with...

California, Florida, Nevada and Arizona account for about 46% of the foreclosure starts in the country, the Mortgage Bankers Assn. reports. California and three other states continued to take an outsize share of the blame for the foreclosure epidemic sweeping the nation.

Rafael Nadal broke the French Open men's record for consecutive wins when he beat Marcos Daniel of Brazil 7-5, 6-4, 6-3 Monday in the first round.

Japan's economy recorded its steepest contraction on record in the first quarter, sliding 4%.

New jobless claims rose more than expected last week due partly to an increase in layoffs by the automobile industry, while the number of people continuing to receive unemployment benefits set a record for the 15th straight week.

U.S. foreclosure activity in April jumped 32 percent from a year ago to a record high, and should mount because temporary freezes on foreclosures ended in March, RealtyTrac said on Wednesday.

Astronomers have spotted a burst of energy from a dying star, setting a record for the oldest and most distant object seen by Earth yet.

The 10-second blast was from when the universe was only 630 million years old.
NASA's Swift satellite spotted the gamma-ray burst, an explosion of high-powered radiation, on April 23. Then ground telescopes watched the afterglow and calculated it had traveled about 13.1 billion light years to get here. It beat old records by 100 or 200 hundred million light years.

The Denver Nuggets tonight tied an NBA All-time Record set in 1956 for the largest margin of Victory in a Playoff game when they beat the New Orleans Hornets by 58 points! This is an astonishing feat.

Martin Brodeur tied Patrick Roy’s NHL record for playoff shutouts, making 44 saves in New Jersey’s 1-0 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday night that moved the Devils within a win of advancing to the second round.