(Associated Press via NewsEdge) A top European broadcast official says television coverage roadblocks in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics are a worrying sign for reporting freedom during the games.

All right, let’s get this right up high: We believe Curt Schilling will one day be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. He’ll get this vote. He has the numbers, and sure as heck delivered enough iconic moments, particularly one involving a surgically repaired ankle, a bloody sock, and a courageous win in the 2004 playoffs, to keep his legend alive long after he is gone.

”People try and make me something that I’m not” Lewis Hamilton has dismissed suggestions that he is the latest example of a formula one driver seduced by the sport’s glamorous temptations…  

Not since the days of Robin Hood has banditry been so accepted in a western society.

Weight-loss surgery can reduce the risk of cancer for seriously obese patients by more than 80%, say researchers. A study of almost 7,000 patients found a strong association between bariatric surgery and protection from cancer.

I feel like I’m hallucinating. Ephemeral creatures are teetering on 2-foot-high platform shoes in sparkling gowns, swaying with buckskin-clad First Nations folks. Rubenesque belly dancers swirl around a pair of dreadlocked shaman on stilts. Here comes a 17th…