Ivanovic opens season with win at Brisbane - CBS Sportsline
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) -Tuning up for the Australian Open and aiming for another big year, top-seeded Ana Ivanovic began her 2009 season Monday night with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic at the Brisbane International ...

Blagojevich Appointment Sets Off Dispute - AOL
Blagojevich tapped former state attorney general Roland Burris for the seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama, thrusting the 71-year-old political veteran back in the spotlight and immediately in a corner. The Illinois secretary of state ...

Could There Be Another President Bush? - KOAT 7
WASHINGTON -- President George W. Bush isn't even out of the White House yet, and his father is already touting another of his offspring for the job -- former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Former President George H.W. Bush told "Fox News Sunday" he'd like ...

Hurricanes announce prospect to rejoin junior team - Rocky Mountain News
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Carolina Hurricanes said prospect Brett Bellemore will rejoin his junior team. The defenseman has missed the majority of the season with the Albany River Rats, the Hurricanes' American Hockey League affiliate. Bellemore has ...

Exxon Mobil, Mitra Energy to drill Sulu Sea - Manila Bulleting Online
International oil giant Exxon Mobil, along with Malaysian firm Mitra Energy Ltd., will be lining up 0 million investment for drilling of exploration wells at its oil and gas development prospect in Sandakan basin at the Sulu sea. The exploration ...

U.S. and Germany mull tax cuts - International Herald Tribune
The prospect of new tax cuts in the United States and Germany injected a measure of New Year cheer on Monday, and a euro zone investor survey indicated new hope that the worst of the financial crisis had passed. Asian stocks climbed to a two-month ...

Forecasts of stores' demise in 2009 over the top - St. Petersburg Times
Consumerist.com gets 10-million page views a month. Retailing may well skip off the track for most of 2009, but I'm not ready to buy into it becoming quite the train wreck envisioned by some industry Cassandras. Some experts are predicting another ...

U.S., Germany mull tax cuts, gloom eases - Reuters
NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - The prospect of new tax cuts in the United States and Germany injected a measure of New Year cheer on Monday, and a euro zone investor survey indicated new hope that the worst of the financial crisis had passed. Asian ...

Israel deaf to truce calls as Gaza battles rage on - Reuters UK
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops backed by air strikes fought to seize ground from Hamas militants deep inside the Gaza Strip on Monday despite international calls for a cease-fire in a conflict that has killed more than 540 Palestinians in 10 days ...

Rangers prospect used performance-enhancers - NBC Sports
Alexei Cherepanov collapsed Oct. 13 while on the bench for Omsk club Avangard in Russia's Continental Hockey League, or KHL. The player, a top prospect for the NHL's New York Rangers, died a short time later. MOSCOW - New York Rangers prospect Alexei ...