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The closing ceremony for 2012 London Olympics will be themed "A Symphony of British Music" — with organizers promising a hit-packed journey from classical composer Edward Elgar to Grammy soul diva Adele.

A medical examiner who performed an autopsy on an 82-year-old pilot was not able to find any medical conditions that could have contributed to the crash that killed all four people aboard, including Oklahoma State University women's basketball coach Kurt Budke last year in central Arkansas.

LONDON (Reuters) - Sunderland striker Fraizer Campbell received his first England call-up on Thursday as caretaker coach Stuart Pearce began a rebuilding job after the shock resignation of Fabio Capello months before Euro 2012. The relatively young squad for Wednesday's friendly with Netherlands at Wembley also included …

LONDON (Reuters) - Michael Schumacher can be a winner with Mercedes this season but ideally he would be alongside double world champion Sebastian Vettel at Red Bull, Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone said on Thursday. The 43-year-old seven-times world champion is starting the third season of his comeback still chasing …

LONDON (Reuters) - For a club dripping in silverware, recent years have been harrowing for Liverpool on and off the pitch and Sunday's League Cup final against Cardiff City offers the Merseysiders a reminder of happier times. Since winning the FA Cup in 2006 Liverpool have hardly had a sniff of a trophy, suffered a bitter …

BASEL (Reuters) - With only three coaches since the turn of the century, Champions League upstarts FC Basel are a rare case of stability in the turbulent sea of European club football. A large contingent of home-grown talent, prudence in the transfer market and boisterous local support makes them the sort of club which …

Former England and Liverpool striker Robbie Fowler has cast doubt on a new football tournament in India, dealing a further blow to the postponed event.

In a trial that revealed the lives of elite athletes at a top-notch school, a former University of Virginia lacrosse player faces 26 years in prison for the beating death of his former girlfriend amid a swirl of betrayal, distrust, anger and a culture of drinking.

Top-ranked defending champion Luke Donald was hammered by Ernie Els while Tiger Woods had a narrow first-round escape at the World Golf Championships Match Play Championship.

Maine Republican party chairman: Mitt Romney wins Maine caucuses

A jury convicted a former University of Virginia lacrosse player Wednesday of second-degree murder of his ex-girlfriend in a drunken, jealous rage, rejecting a first-degree murder verdict and a possible life sentence.

Marseille coach Didier Deschamps was left to revel in an Italian-style victory after Andre Ayew's injury-time header gave his side a last-gasp 1-0 win over Inter Milan.

Andrew Bynum had a huge smile on his face after he grabbed a rebound of his own miss and got fouled on an attempted putback.

Jeremy Lin scored 17 points and added nine assists to spark the New York Knicks over Atlanta 99-82, improving the team to 9-2 since the Asian-American star emerged from a reserve role.

MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - Inter Milan paid the price for their negative tactics as the 2010 European champions were stunned by an Andre Ayew stoppage-time goal to lose 1-0 at Olympique Marseille in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie on Wednesday. Ayew broke the deadlock with a glancing header from Mathieu …

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Evergreen boxing champion Bernard Hopkins will return to the ring in April for a rematch against Chad "Bad" Dawson, who vowed on Wednesday to finish the job he started in their controversial title fight last year. The 47-year-old Hopkins (52-5-2), the oldest boxer to win a world title, will put his …

LONDON (Reuters) - The prospect of outcast Carlos Tevez pulling on a Manchester City shirt again moved closer on Wednesday when manager Roberto Mancini said he accepted the Argentine striker's apology for his behaviour over recent months. Tevez issued an unreserved apology on Tuesday and withdrew his appeal against a gross …

MARANA, Arizona (Reuters) - Tiger Woods clawed back from a poor start to scrape past Spaniard Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano one up in Wednesday's opening round at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship. The American former world number one, seeking his first PGA Tour victory in over two years, lost the first two holes to …

(Reuters) - Australian captain Michael Clarke has said he was partly responsible for the sacking of former skipper Ricky Ponting from the one-day squad. Clarke wrote about how difficult the decision had been in a newspaper column on Thursday, while adding that the 37-year-old Ponting remained a "huge part of our test team." …

Not much heat from the Hawks for Jeremy Lin and the New York Knicks.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese basketball icon Yao Ming has been taken aback by Jeremy Lin's rise at the New York Knicks and thinks his style and size could make China's state sports system rethink how it selects and grooms its athletes. Yao, who opened up the world's most populous country to the NBA, retired from the game …

(Reuters) - The Ottawa Senators cruised to their fourth win in a row with a 5-2 victory over the slumping Washington Capitals on Wednesday.

Outsmarted, outhustled and even outrebounded for most of the game, Michigan State snapped back to stun Minnesota.