BAD GASTEIN, Austria, July 18 (UPI) -- Top-seeded Agnes Szavay survived a grueling match Friday to reach the quarterfinals of the rain-plagued Gastein Ladies Open.
LOS ANGELES, July 18 (UPI) -- Midnight screenings of Hollywood's latest Batman picture, "The Dark Knight," racked up $18.5 million at the box office its first day, Warner Bros. said.
LONDON, July 18 (UPI) -- A British toy store has unveiled what it believes will be the hottest toys for Christmas 2008, with the store's chief buyer predicting a "retro" trend.
WARWICK, England, July 18 (UPI) -- Breastfeeding a baby results in surges of the "trust" hormone oxytocin in the mother's brain, University of Warwick researchers in England said.
MILWAUKEE, July 18 (UPI) -- First-round leader Richard S. Johnson held onto a share of the top spot at the U.S. Bank Championship Friday and Kenny Perry stayed within five shots.
PLAINFIELD, Ill., July 18 (UPI) -- Wildlife authorities said a 40-inch American alligator has been caught in Plainfield, Ill., after it was spotted in Lake Renwick.
ATHENS, Greece, July 18 (UPI) -- Dirk Nowitzki scored 20 points Friday, helping Germany move within one victory of an Olympic berth in a 78-65 qualifying win over Brazil.
ARLINGTON, Va., July 18 (UPI) -- A New York man says he regrets the boiling tempers that resulted from his blog post blasting a suburban Arlington, Va., coffee house.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill., July 18 (UPI) -- Christina Kim maintained her one-stroke lead with a 4-under-par 68 in the second round of the LPGA's State Farm Classic in Springfield, Ill.
SHIP BOTTOM, N.J., July 18 (UPI) -- A Ship Bottom, N.J., crabber says she is determined to find the owner of a 50-year-old wedding ring she discovered in the sand.
WASHINGTON, July 18 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm, a co-chairman of presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain's campaign, said Friday he was leaving the campaign.
UMAG, Croatia, July 18 (UPI) -- Top-seeded Fernando Verdasco of Spain beat German Mischa Zverev 7-5, 7-5 in a quarterfinal match on Friday at the Croatia Open in Umag.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., July 18 (UPI) -- An investigation has concluded that a Daytona Beach, Fla., police lieutenant threatened to revoke a Starbucks' protection if it didn't serve him free coffee.
WASHINGTON, July 18 (UPI) -- Texas oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens says if Barack Obama is elected president, "I think I would be for Al Gore for energy czar."
TACOMA, Wash., July 18 (UPI) -- Illegal immigrants held at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Wash., are subjected to widespread abuses, a civil rights group says.
WASHINGTON, July 18 (UPI) -- Seventy-five percent of Americans say gays and lesbians should be permitted to serve in the U.S. military, a Washington Post-ABC News poll indicated.
BELOIT, Ill., July 18 (UPI) -- An Illinois man given a car speaker by his mother-in-law says he discovered a loaded handgun and the proceeds of a 2004 bank robbery inside.
MOSCOW, July 18 (UPI) -- The Russian government Friday criticized a Japanese textbook that says the disputed South Kuril Islands were illegally occupied by Russia .