ATLANTA, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Turner Sports said Friday that TNT basketball analyst Charles Barkley would be taking some time off to deal with his drunken-driving arrest in Arizona.

HOUSTON, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- A 14-year-old Texas teen who will graduate with a math degree next month says he isn't doing anything other students couldn't do if they applied themselves.

LONDON, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- A financial controller at the London Stock Exchange took less than 18 minutes to find the words to become Britain's new crossword puzzle champion.

PROVIDENCE, R.I., Oct. 9 (UPI) -- The fate of a German baroness's painting, purchased 70 years ago from a Jewish art dealer, is in the hands of a U.S. appeals court in Rhode Island.

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HOUSTON, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Sexbots -- not sexpots, but robots -- so lifelike that humans will know them in every sense will be available sooner, not later, a British writer predicts.

MAASTRICHT , Netherlands, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- The University of Maastricht in the Netherlands is awarding a doctorate to a researcher who wrote a paper on marriages between humans and robots.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., June 7 (UPI) -- NASCAR visionary Bill France, Jr. Thursday was eulogized at the Mary McLeod Bethune Performing Arts Center in Daytona Beach, Fla. A funeral followed the service.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Jan. 23 (UPI) -- The William Morris Agency, based in Beverly Hills, Calif., is expanding its international music operation, the company announced Tuesday.