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Di Maria ruled out of World Cup semifinals 07/06/2014 06:50pm • KARL RITTER Associated Press BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (AP) -- Argentina midfielder Angel Di Maria has been ruled out of the World Cup semifinal against the Netherlands with a thigh injury while striker Sergio Aguero has been declared fit to play after recovering from a similar problem.Di Maria limped Brazil tries to stay confident after losing Neymar 07/06/2014 03:20pm • TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (AP) -- Still coping with the loss of its biggest star, Brazil is trying to find ways to remain upbeat about its prospects at the World Cup.The medical helicopter that took Neymar home with a back injury also carried away much of the country's hop British sprinter Cavendish pulls out of Tour 07/06/2014 02:50pm • SAMUEL PETREQUIN AP Sports Writer YORK, England (AP) -- British sprinter Mark Cavendish pulled out of the Tour de France on Sunday with a serious shoulder injury likely to require surgery.Cavendish, with his arm in a sling underneath his sweatshirt, said outside the team bus before the start of the Pakistan: 5 indicted in woman's stoning death 07/06/2014 01:28pm • ISLAMABAD (AP) -- The father of a pregnant Pakistani woman who was stoned to death and four other men have been charged with killing her after she married against the family's wishes and their trial was set to begin on Monday, police said.Farzana Parveen, 25, was killed May 27 before a crowd of onlo Neymar: World Cup dream still alive 07/06/2014 11:14am • TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (AP) -- Brazil star Neymar says his World Cup may be over because of a fractured vertebra but his World Cup dream of celebrating the title with his teammates at the Maracana Stadium next Sunday is still alive.In a video released by the Brazilian f Italy not fingerprinting many migrants despite law 07/06/2014 06:34am • COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) -- Every day, boatloads of refugees arrive on Italian shores. European Union law requires Italy to fingerprint them, so that if they apply for asylum in another country they can be sent back to their port of entry. Instead, Italy is letting thousands of migr Palestinian teen burned to death, autopsy shows 07/06/2014 01:44am • MOHAMMAD DARAGHMEH Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- An autopsy showed an Arab teenager who Palestinians say was killed in a revenge attack was burned to death, officials said Saturday, while Palestinian militants fired two rockets toward a major southern city deeper into Israel than any Unapproved device buys time for new pair of lungs 07/05/2014 05:52pm • LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jon Sacker was near death, too sick for doctors to attempt the double lung transplant he so desperately needed. His only chance: An experimental machine that essentially works like dialysis for the lungs.But the device has not been approved by th Brazil wins, but Neymar ruled out of World Cup 07/05/2014 03:12pm • TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer FORTALEZA, Brazil (AP) -- Not long after celebrating another all-important win at the World Cup, Brazil was jolted by the loss of Neymar.The tournament's poster boy with the dyed-blonde fauxhawk fractured a vertebra in his back during Brazil's 2-1 quarterfinal victory o Neymar injury casts a pall over Brazil cup win 07/05/2014 02:24pm • JOHN LEICESTER AP Sports Writer RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- The fireworks celebrating victory had barely subsided when the disastrous news came through for Brazil: Neymar is out. The star who lit up the World Cup with his skill and sunny temperament fractured a bone in his back. The only way for Brazil t Brazil striker Neymar to miss rest of World Cup 07/05/2014 02:46am • TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer FORTALEZA, Brazil (AP) -- With tears streaming down his face after being kneed in the back, Neymar was carried off the field on a stretcher.He won't be coming back. Not to this World Cup, anyway.The 22-year-old Brazil striker, the one with the hopes of a nation on his s 5 things to know about doping at Tour de France 07/04/2014 04:06pm • SAMUEL PETREQUIN AP Sports Writer LEEDS, England (AP) -- Doping has been an unfortunate part of the Tour de France since its inception in 1903. Instead of today's high-tech performance enhancers like blood-booster EPO, riders juiced up on wine and cocaine, even strychnine, to get a lift in the race. Headbanging caused brain bleed in Motorhead fan 07/04/2014 10:54am • MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) -- It may not destroy your soul, but it turns out heavy metal music can be hazardous to your brain. At least in some rare cases.German doctors say they have treated a Motorhead fan whose headbanging habit ultimately led to a brain injury, but that the ris US officials barred from American's trial in China 07/04/2014 07:50am • BEIJING (AP) -- U.S. diplomats will be barred from the trial in China of an American investigator for GlaxoSmithKline and her British husband who are charged with improperly selling personal information, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Beijing said Friday.The arrest of Yu Yingzeng and husband Pe Hungary: 5 people hospitalized, anthrax suspected 07/04/2014 06:40am • BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) -- Five people have been hospitalized in eastern Hungary, suspected of eating meat infected with anthrax, health officials said Friday.Traces of the deadly bacteria were found in improperly frozen meat from two cows slaughtered illegally in the eastern town of Tiszafured, the