AFP - Wales captain Gareth Thomas has insisted the new national team coach must stay true to the attacking game that saw the side secure a Six Nations Grand Slam last season.

AP - Seven African leaders reviewed efforts to restore peace in Somalia and Uganda and attempts to resolve a festering border dispute between Eritrea and Ethiopia Monday.

AP - Paul Tagliabue is retiring as NFL commissioner in July after more than 16 years on the job.

AP - Renault's Giancarlo Fisichella had the fastest qualifying time for the Malaysian Grand Prix and an engine change spoiled Michael Schumacher's bid to set the Formula One pole position record Saturday.

Reuters - A longstanding divide between nationalist Western Ukraine and its Russian-speaking east -- the fault line in the 2004 "Orange Revolution" -- remains unhealed a week before an election with high stakes.

AP - Omar Vizquel sat down in front of his locker and held court for more than 30 minutes.

Andrea Moore - AHN Staff Reporter Trenton, N.J. (AHN) - Wayne Gretzky's wife will be subpoenaed to testify when a grand jury looks at charges in the case involving a betting ring allegedly ran by an NHL assistant coach. New Jersey's attorney general Zulima Farber said in an interview with The...

AP - Wayne Gretzky's wife will be subpoenaed to testify when a grand jury looks at charges in the case involving a betting ring allegedly run by an NHL assistant coach, New Jersey's attorney general said in an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday.

AP - Beth Orton could never understand why some performers would go on tour and refuse to sing their most popular songs once they hit the stage.

AP - Wayne Gretzky's wife will be subpoenaed to testify when a grand jury looks at charges in the case involving a betting ring allegedly run an NHL assistant coach, New Jersey's attorney general said in an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday.

AP - San Francisco Giants closer Armando Benitez had a cortisone injection in his swollen left knee and won't be able to throw off a mound for a few days.

AFP - Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has threatened to impose a state of emergency in Bangkok if a mass street protest against him turns violent.

AFP - Tens of thousands of Thai protesters began marching at dawn toward Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's office to press their demands for him to step down, after an all-night rally drew record crowds.

AP - A minor league hockey team plans to spoof Vice President Dick Cheney's recent hunting mishap by handing out orange hunting vests with the words, "Don't Shoot, I'm Human."

AP - Half a world away from Jimmie Johnson's last-lap NASCAR victory in Las Vegas, another California native was making racing history without any fanfare.

Joanna Wypior - AHN Staff Reporter Manama, Behrain (AHN) - Reigning world champion Fernando Alonso won a wheel-to-wheel duel with Michael Schumacher to start his title defense with victory in the Bahrain Grand Prix. The 24-year-old Spaniard spent the race locked in a duel with Schumacher,...

AP - Defending Formula One champion Fernando Alonso of Renault won the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday, holding off a challenge from Michael Schumacher.

Renault's Fernando Alonso beats Michael Schumacher's Ferrari in the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix.

AP - It's a concert without musicians when 16 baby grand player-pianos accompanied by a variety of drums, bells, xylophones and a siren perform American composer George Antheil's "Ballet Mecanique," or Mechanical Ballet.

AP - Ferrari's Michael Schumacher secured pole position Saturday for the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, while McLaren Mercedes' Kimi Raikkonen retired from qualifying before he could complete a lap and will start from the back of the grid.