Daniel Sanchez

Nigerian Peter Odemwingie rediscovered his scoring touch with a hat-trick as West Bromwich Albion crushed Wolves 5-1 at the weekend in a clash of English Premier League battlers.

A Dutch woman left a hospital in Spain Thursday a day after she was rescued unharmed after spending 18 days trapped at the bottom of a ravine without any food.

Real Sociedad will be coached by Philippe Montanier next season after paying Valenciennes 500,000 euros to buy out the final year of his contract, the French first division side announced on Saturday.

Bolivia lowers retirement age to 58, nationalizes pensions and extends them to the poor. Bolivia enacted a law Friday lowering the country's retirement age to 58, bucking a global trend in which countries push people to work longer to counteract the burden on national treasuries of rising life expectancy.

US troops who have died while serving in Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa. Army Staff Sgt. Joshua D. Powell

At least 1,200 US military have died in Afghanistan since 2001. As of Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010, at least 1,200 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S. invasion in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.