Jason Kidd became one of the best by making others better.

Their season, their legacy, their reign atop the NBA was all at stake, and the Miami Heat responded in a manner befitting defending champions – with a blowout.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie stepped out together Sunday at the premiere of zombie thriller “World War Z” — Jolie’s first public appearance since announcing last month that she had undergone a double mastectomy.

Actor Michael Douglas says that his throat cancer was caused by a virus he contracted by performing oral sex on women — a claim that a doctor called dubious.

A simple vinegar test slashed cervical cancer death rates by one-third in a remarkable study of 150,000 women in the slums of India, where the disease is the top cancer killer of women.

Microsoft is trying to fix what it got wrong with its radical makeover of Windows. It’s making the operating system easier to navigate and enabling users to set up the software so it starts in a more familiar format designed for personal computers.

Syrian President Bashar said the regime has received the first shipment of sophisticated Russian anti-aircraft missiles, while the main Western-backed opposition group announced Thursday that it will not participate in peace talks — a double blow to international efforts to end the country’s devastating civil war.

A detailed look at two cases of a deadly new respiratory virus called MERS suggests people who have the disease should be isolated for at least 12 days to avoid spreading it, doctors reported Wednesday.

The mother of the Chinese newborn trapped in a sewer pipe in a stunning ordeal caught on video had raised the initial alarm and was present for the entire two-hour rescue but did not admit giving birth until confronted by police, reports said Wednesday.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) – Police planned to review surveillance video footage and social media websites Wednesday as they investigate a small explosion in a Disneyland trash can that shut down a part of the park for two hours.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Roy Hibbert had 23 points and 12 rebounds as the Indiana Pacers charged back late to beat the Miami Heat 99-92 on Tuesday and level the Eastern Conference finals at 2-2.

Chinese state media say firefighters and medics rescued a newborn baby boy from a sewer pipe beneath a squat toilet.

Internal Affairs officers on Saturday were looking into allegations made by actress Amanda Bynes that New York Police Department officers sexually assaulted her when she was charged with heaving a marijuana bong out the window of her 36th-floor Manhattan apartment.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – The 97th running of the Indianapolis 500 is Sunday with a wide-open field and a pair of drivers trying to join the elite list of four-time winners. Two Americans start on the front row, along with Carlos Munoz, an unknown Indy 500 newcomer who grew up idolizing Juan Pablo Montoya — a fellow Colombian who won “The Greatest Spectacle In Racing” as a rookie.

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) – Just days before America honors its war dead on Memorial Day, high school students in York Springs got a chance to hear first-hand accounts from some of the men who served during World War II and lived to tell about it.

Borussia Dortmund’s pain in losing the Champions League final 2-1 to bitter rival Bayern Munich is exacerbated by the knowledge it may never have a better chance to win the trophy again.

The unusual order makes Myanmar perhaps the only country in the world to impose such a restriction on a religious group, and is likely to fuel further criticism that Muslims are being discriminated against in the Buddhist-majority country.