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Los Angeles star Kobe Bryant will not play in the Lakers' final exhibition game against the Los Angeles Clippers because of a torn ligament in his right wrist.

The National Basketball Association team said Bryant was injured during Monday's loss to the same opponent. Doctors examined Bryant's wrist Wednesday and it showed he had a torn ligament.

The ...

LIEGE, Belgium (Reuters) - A gunman shot dead three people at a busy central square during a Christmas market in the Belgian city of Liege Tuesday and then killed himself, a justice official said.

More than 75 people were injured in the attack, some of them seriously, Liege's prosecutor told a news conference. As well as firing from a rifle ...

Several people were injured by two bomb explosions in Nigeria's central city of Jos on Saturday, a state government official said.

"Two bombs have just exploded in Jos," Pam Ayuba, spokesman for the governor of Plateau state, told AFP by telephone.

"We are yet to establish the number of casualties, but reports I got said some people were injured ...

Two Leicestershire teenagers are being treated for serious injuries on Friday after their father fatally stabbed their mother and sister before killing himself.

Tobias Day, a former police officer, killed his wife Samantha and their seven-year-old daughter Genevieve, and attacked his two other children Kimberly and Adam before taking his own life at their home in Melton Mowbray on Thursday ...

A lawyer for John Hinckley Jr., the man who tried to assassinate then-president Ronald Reagan in 1981, sought Monday to prove his client can be safely released 30 years after the attack.

Hinckley, 56, was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the shooting of Reagan and three others, including White House press secretary James Brady.

Since then, he ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - St Jude Medical Inc has sent a letter to doctors advising them that its Riata leads that connect implanted defibrillators to the heart have a higher rate of insulation failures than previously reported.

St Jude said in the letter that the Riata and Riata ST leads showed an insulation abrasion incident rate of 0.63 percent over nine ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Programs aimed at preventing knee injuries among soccer players take time to make any lasting impact on the way athletes move, according to a new study.

A warm-up program of stretching and strengthening that lasted three months had only a temporary benefit, while the improvements seen after a nine-month program persisted for months after the training ...

A war veteran who suffered severe burns in a roadside bomb explosion in Iraq won the admiration of US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta Wednesday by dancing his way to victory in a TV show.

JR Martinez was crowned the new champion of ABC television's "Dancing with the Stars" late Tuesday after dancing a samba to beat out TV reality ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Andy Murray has withdrawn from the ATP World Tour Finals due to a groin injury, the Briton said on Tuesday.

The world number three required treatment on court during a straight-sets defeat by Spain's David Ferrer on Monday.

(Reporting by Toby Davis, editing by Ed Osmond)

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The San Diego Chargers placed Pro Bowl offensive lineman Kris Dielman on injured reserve Wednesday, ending his season due to the concussion he suffered against the Jets on October 23.

Dielman, a left guard, had a seizure on the team flight home from the game in New York, but was originally expected to miss two games.

The team's response ...