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Royals win World Series, rally late and beat Mets 7-2 in 12 (Yahoo Sports)

They worked all season to take one more step in the World Series. A daring dash by Hosmer tied the score in the ninth, and those bound-and-determined Kansas City Royals rallied yet again to beat the New York Mets 7-2 in 12 innings early Monday for their first championship since 1985. There was no doubt in their mind that they wouldn’t accomplish it,” manager Ned Yost said.

Brees' 7 TDs help Saints top Giants, 52-49 on last-second FG (Yahoo Sports)

Drew Brees has heard his critics getting louder this season. Brees passed for career highs of 511 yards and an NFL record-tying seven touchdowns, and recently signed Kai Forbath kicked a 50-yard field goal as time ran out, giving the Saints a 52-49 victory in a game with a record 13 scoring passes. ”It’s not like we came out today with the intent to set a few records just to

Manning, Broncos throttle Rodgers, Packers 29-10 (Yahoo Sports)

This is exactly what Gary Kubiak envisioned when he returned to Denver: Peyton Manning running bootlegs and rollouts, using his tight ends as targets and watching his running backs race into the end zone. The Broncos finally found some offense to go with all that defense, powering their way past the Green Bay Packers 29-10 Sunday night. In only the fourth meeting of teams 6-0 or better, Manning tied Brett

Flight recorders show crashed Russian jet not struck from outside – investigator

By Ahmed Mohamed Hassan and Polina Devitt CAIRO/MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian plane that crashed in Egypt was not struck from the outside and the pilot did not make a distress call before it disappeared from radar, a source in the committee analyzing the flight recorders said on Monday. The source declined to give more details but based his comments on the preliminary examination of the black boxes recovered from

Erdogan, eyeing greater powers, says Turks voted for stability

By Nick Tattersall and Ercan Gurses ANKARA (Reuters) – A jubilant President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday cast the return of Turkey’s Islamist-rooted AK Party to single-party rule as a vote for stability that the world must respect, but opponents fear it heralds growing authoritarianism and deeper polarization. The AKP defied pollsters and even the expectations of its own strategists in a general election on Sunday, consolidating support from the right

Iran says may quit Syria talks, in worsening spat with Saudi rival

By Yara Bayoumy and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran said on Monday it would quit Syria peace talks if it found them unconstructive, citing the “negative role” of Saudi Arabia, in the latest twist in a spat between the regional rivals that bodes ill for efforts to ease turmoil across the Middle East. Increasingly bad-tempered exchanges between the conservative Sunni-ruled kingdom and the revolutionary Shi’ite theocracy have dampened hopes