Otis Grant bears down on Charles Adamu at the Bell Centre in 2005. Grant won a unanimous decision.
Photograph by : JOHN KENNEY, GAZETTE FILE PHOTOS
It was one of those moments that defines a life. Otis Grant, then the former WBO middleweight boxing champion, was driving south on Highway 15 north of Laval on the evening [...]

Lea Seefeldt
CBS
Diagnosed with Down syndrome, Lea Seefeldt, 27, has been disabled from birth and has spent the last three years in a wheelchair. She was told she would never walk again until a group of doctors at St. Croix Orthopedics and Lakeview Hospital in Stillwater, Minn. offered a miracle medical solution.
The bones in her hips [...]

AP Photo: Serena Williams of the U.S. holds her trophy for photographers after winning the women’s singles…
Serena Williams always takes handwritten notes onto the court, as useful reminders or for motivation.
This time, she wrote one word: Yetunde.
Memories of her slain half-sister inspired Williams to a 6-1, 6-2 win over top-seeded Maria Sharapova in the
Australian [...]

Bulgarian medics Nasia Nenova (r), Snezana Dimitrova (c) and Palestinian doctor Ashraf Hajjuj, behind bars during their retrial in Libya. Photograph: Mahmud Turkia/AFP/Getty Images
A Libyan court today sentenced five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death after finding them guilty of deliberately infecting 400 children with the HIV virus.
The presiding judge, Mahmoud Hawissa, read [...]

“Sola mors tyrannicida est,” wrote Thomas More: Death is the only way to get rid of tyrants. And so it will prove for Fidel Castro. Sixteen years ago, he looked finished. The U.S.S.R. had collapsed, and the Soviet subsidies that had propped up the Cuban economy for 30 years had been abruptly terminated. Around the [...]