Baseball’s All-Star game is a little bit of a sham — more of a mid-season jolly for the players and league executives than a serious measure of how the game’s best proponents measure up against each other.

Baseball’s All-Star game is a little bit of a sham — more of a mid-season jolly for the players and league executives than a serious measure of how the game’s best proponents measure up against each other.

Joey Barton told his Twitter followers on Sunday that after he got sent off against Man City, he tried and failed to get “one of theirs” to accompany him.

The Obama administration should rethink its commitment to the fight in Afghanistan, according to American politicians furious with Afghan president Hamid Karzai for saying his country would back Pakistan in a war with the United States.

President Manuel Zelaya returned to the Honduran border today and announced he would set up camp there, despite foreign leaders urging him not to force a confrontation with the government in power since last month’s coup.