David Beckham will miss the World Cup after tearing his left Achilles' tendon while playing for AC Milan, a person familiar with the injury told The Associated Press.

Valley Championship trophies are headed to Stockdale High School and Garces High School. Stockdale claimed the Division I title, while the Garces girls team won it all in Division II.

On a wild night in the Central Section Division I playoffs, Liberty barely managed to get past Bakersfield High School, 2-1. The Patriots advance to face Stockdale in the semi-finals.

The Arena Football League, reborn under new leadership after folding last year, is already looking to add teams in Philadelphia, Southern California, Denver and Pittsburgh.

A commuter train ran a stop light during morning rush hour and collided head-on with another train in a Brussels suburb Monday, killing at least 18 people and injuring 55 in Belgium's deadliest train wreck in decades, officials said.

Stockdale's girls soccer team blanked Frontier 3-0. The win keeps the Lady Mustangs perfect in Southwest Yosemite League action.

The massive, multimillion-dollar security operations for the Super Bowl and Winter Olympics are being adjusted in light of recent breaches such as the attempted Christmas Day bombing of an airliner and the White House gatecrashers.

Leftists are pouring into town to rail against freewheeling capitalism during the World Social Forum, gleefully cheering the humbling of bankers and business titans by the global economic meltdown.

There is no food, water or medicine for the 84 surviving residents of the Port-au-Prince Municipal Nursing Home, barely a mile from the airport where a massive international aid effort is taking shape.

Investigators were mystified Wednesday as to why an 11-year-old boy was behind the wheel when the car ran a stop sign and crashed into another vehicle, killing him, his mother and younger sister.

Carlos Grande, a sophomore at East High School, has been invited to join the Under 17 U.S. Men's National Soccer Team. It's the chance of a lifetime to get to play in the next World Cup, coming up in 2011 in Mexico City.

Internet postings purportedly written by a Nigerian charged with trying to bomb a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day suggest a fervently religious and lonely young man who fantasized about becoming a Muslim holy warrior.

Spain is ranked No. 1 in the year-end FIFA standings for the second straight year, while the United States is ranked 14th. In rankings published Wednesday, the European champion maintained the lead it took last month from South American champion Brazil.

Global consulting firm Accenture PLC has ended its relationship with Tiger Woods, marking the first major sponsor to cut ties altogether with the golfer since his alleged infidelities surfaced and he announced an indefinite leave from the sport to work on his marriage.

Everyone at Wesson Attendance Center knows 17-year-old Ceara Sturgis is gay because she's never tried to hide it. But when Sturgis wanted her senior photograph in a tuxedo used in the yearbook, school officials balked.