AP - Four winning tickets were sold — one in each of four states — for a Mega Millions jackpot worth an estimated $330 million, lottery officials said early Saturday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Williams sisters will take centre stage at Flushing Meadows on Sunday as they bid for places in the quarter-finals of the U.S. Open, while an injury-hit Rafael Nadal leads the action in the men's event.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Venus and Serena Williams served their way into the U.S. Open quarter-finals with impressive straight-sets victories Sunday, setting up a possible clash between the American sisters in the final four.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top seed Roger Federer withstood a few anxious moments before defeating Spain's Feliciano Lopez in four sets to book a quarter-final berth against old foe Andy Roddick at the U.S. Open on Monday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three-time defending champion Roger Federer will meet his predecessor as U.S. Open champion when he takes on American Andy Roddick in the quarter-finals at Flushing Meadows on Wednesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Health plan costs are expected to rise at a slightly faster rate in 2008, after three years of flat growth, according to preliminary results of a new survey.

INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - The Super Bowl champion Indianapolis Colts kicked off the new NFL season with a ruthless 41-10 win over the New Orleans Saints on Thursday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Justine Henin takes on Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova in the final of the U.S. Open on Saturday, chasing a seventh grand-slam title and a little piece of history.

STUTTGART, Germany (Reuters) - American Nastia Liukin won the balance beam gold medal at the world gymnastics championships on Sunday.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - One of the United States' most wanted fugitives, accused of raping his daughter and posting the video on the Internet, agreed on Monday to be extradited from Hong Kong.

BERLIN (Reuters) - A U.S. air base in western Germany received a bomb threat on Monday evening, prompting a large operation by local police and American forces to secure the site, police said on Tuesday.

AP - New Orleans is narrowly retaining a black majority after Hurricane Katrina, according to a study released Wednesday by The Brookings Institution.

AP - Humberto strengthened into a hurricane early Thursday as it edged toward the Texas coast, packing 80 mph winds and promising more rain and possible flooding to a state coming off one of the wettest summers in more than 50 years.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese journalist jailed while working for the New York Times expects to be freed at the weekend, his family and a lawyer said, ending a controversial prison term that highlighted the country's tough media controls.

AP - Utility crews restored electricity Friday to half of the homes and businesses left without power after Hurricane Humberto, while experts estimated total damages from the storm would cost less than $500 million.

AP - A high school football player was fatally shot and three other students, including two teammates, were wounded at a party after a game, police and witnesses said.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A U.S. delegation will begin formal negotiations with Chinese officials in Beijing this week on deals to improve food and drug safety following a series of health scares that have shaken confidence in Chinese-made goods.

AP - A package of Dole salad mix that tested positive for E. coli has triggered a recall in at least nine states, prompting new produce fears almost exactly a year after a nationwide spinach scare.

AP - A company that distributed human growth hormone to 'well known athletes and entertainers' has agreed to pay a $10.5 million penalty and cooperate with ongoing law enforcement investigations, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Actor Kevin Kline's new film on the epidemic trafficking of human beings, with girls forced into prostitution and children into slave labor, opened on Wednesday at the United Nations.

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Episcopal bishops were tight-lipped on Thursday about meetings with the Archbishop of Canterbury aimed at healing a rift in their church over the ordaining of gay bishops and the blessing of same-sex unions.

AP - The city will pay $1.43 million to settle claims by a black firefighter who said he suffered harassment and discrimination after co-workers served him spaghetti laced with dog food, officials announced Friday.

AP - Subtropical Storm Jerry formed Sunday in the Atlantic Ocean but posed no immediate threat to land, the National Hurricane Center said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Brett Favre tied the NFL's career record for touchdown passes with a 57-yard strike in the fourth quarter to help the Green Bay Packers stay unbeaten with a 31-24 victory over the San Diego Chargers on Sunday.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Tough choices tempt kids at every turn -- whether it is soda in school, junk food ads on TV or the fast-food chain around the corner -- and school policies limiting physical activity only make matters worse, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

DETROIT (Reuters) - Negotiations between the United Auto Workers and General Motors Corp. shifted back into overdrive on Wednesday as a marathon bargaining session brought both sides near a deal that would end a national strike entering its third day.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Senator Charles Grassley is raising questions about payments made by medical devices maker Medtronic Inc to spine surgeons, the New York Times reported on its Website on Thursday.

HOUSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday stopped the execution of a Texas convict scheduled to be put to death for the 1998 killing of his parents, two days after the court said it will consider whether lethal injection violates a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

BOSTON (Reuters) - The Boston Red Sox won the American League East title for the first time in 12 years after securing a 5-2 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Friday, while the New York Yankees lost to the Baltimore Orioles.

AP - Prosecutors and defense attorneys representing O.J. Simpson and his co-defendants are scheduled to meet privately on Monday with a justice of the peace to schedule a preliminary hearing for the six men.