No La Liga let up for Madrid, Barca as strike looms

Real Madrid and Barcelona can't afford a Champions League hangover as their La Liga title hopes will again be on the line on Saturday when they host Valencia and Real Sociedad respectively.

Chinese crew first to Newport

After six months at sea, including 17 days on the 5,000 nautical mile leg from Brazil, less than four minutes separated the two top finishers in the around-the-world Volvo Ocean Race on their arrival in Newport.

Hamilton hopes to add to Alonso misery

Defending world champion Lewis Hamilton seeks to build on his 27-point lead in this year's title race with another victory for Mercedes at the Spanish Grand Prix this weekend.

NBA playoffs have fresh look

Spurs and Celtics? Already eliminated.

Score board

Nobody's voice broke as many hearts as his did

Percy Sledge was a struggling 25 year-old soul singer, making ends meet by working as a hospital orderly, when, on the recommendation of a patient, in February 1966 he walked into a small studio in the town of Sheffield, Alabama, owned by a local disc jockey named Quinn Ivy to make his first record.

The grand designs of Alphonse Mucha

"When my grandfather went to America, it was like the Beatles," says John Mucha. "He made the front pages of the newspapers and was feted wherever he went."

Long & dwindling road between sleep & work

The high cost of housing in Beijing and other metropolises has forced people to move outside their city, but that means they face a daily trek that can take hours on crowded buses

Almost human

When Li Mingming and Gong Meng, founders of SpaceH, decided to build a robot in Oct 2013, they wanted to do something to help their families.

Will robots replace human labor?

Robots in sci-fi movies are almost omnipotent. In Artificial Intelligence, for example, they can provide services including prostitution, and comfort a heartbroken mother by being her child.

Baidu chasing Google in race to create real AI

Since Alan Turing proposed the concept of artificial intelligence in the 1950s, human beings have exerted great efforts to create machines that can think and communicate like humans.

The fairest robot of them all

Which is your favorite robot?