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Report: U.S. to Get Nissan Qashqai As a Junior Rogue

– According to a report in Automotive News, Nissan will bring its European-market Qashqai crossover to North America, to slot below the Rogue as a smaller compact entry. – The Qashqai was recently redesigned after the debut version’s highly successful six-year run. The British-built crossover is offered in Europe with two diesels and a 113-hp 1.2-liter gasoline-powered four. A 161-hp 1.6-liter gas four-cylinder recently joined the lineup—presumably that would be the engine for our market.

Elche lose appeal

Spanish club Elche have lost their appeal against the decision to relegate them from La Liga to the second division over their failure to pay taxes and wages to players.

Dustin Johnson with fresh chance to heal US Open heartbreak

Dustin Johnson will get a chance to banish the agony of losing the US Open on the final green when he tees off in his opening round of the 144th British Open at St Andrews on Thursday. Ironically, the mild-mannered 31-year-old from South Carolina opens his campaign alongside world number two Jordan Spieth, the man who claimed victory at Chambers Bay, his second straight major triumph, when Johnson three-putted from

Serial offenders may not cause most campus rapes

If the findings are true, then focusing rape prevention efforts on serial offenders is misguided, the researchers say. “We’re not in this paper trying to say serial rapist don’t exist,” said lead author Kevin Swartout of Georgia State University in Atlanta. In their paper in JAMA Pediatrics, he and his colleagues say the idea that a handful of men are behind most campus rapes comes from one study conducted at