Photos: Black Friday Frenzy

The Yankees retire numbers with gusto, 18 to date and three more soon, but this zest also limits options when it comes to assigning numbers to current players.

In 2003, Minnesota Timberwolves’ superfan John Sweeney showed his love for NBA star Kevin Garnett when he danced topless during a Wolves game, flaunting the initials “KG,” which had been scrawled on his body. Last week, Sweeney -- who earned the nickname “Jiggly Boy” following his 2003 performance -- ripped off his shirt to perform the famous dance yet again.

The effort to take back Saddam Hussein’s hometown, a Sunni stronghold, could deepen the sectarian divide or become a pivotal fight in the campaign to reclaim the north and west of the country.

Thousands of troops, Shia militia and armed Sunni tribesmen launch large-scale offensive on Saddam Hussein's hometown

DHAKA, March 2 (Reuters) - Bangladesh's anti-terrorism unit said it had arrested on Monday the main suspect in the killing of a U. S. blogger who was hacked to death in Dhaka last week in the latest attack on critics of religious extremism in the Muslim-majority nation. Forces from the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested Farabi Shafiur Rahman, who was previously jailed for his ties to the extremist Hizbut Tahrir Islamist group, at a bus stop in Dhaka, a RAB spokesman told reporters.