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MELBOURNE, Australia – When Maria Sharapova walked on court for the Australian Open final, she kept thinking about the sage advice of another champion. “Champions take chances, and pressure is a privilege,” Billy Jean King had written in a text message that Sharapova saw when she woke up. “I took …

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Firebombs were thrown at three more churches in Malaysia on Sunday and another was splashed with black paint, the latest in a series of assaults on Christian houses of worship following a court decision allowing non-Muslims to use “Allah” to refer to God. Despite the attacks, …

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Erik Dobratz, whose father was among five workers killed in last week’s Connecticut power plant explosion, remembers the day in eighth grade when his father showed up at a baseball game with an eye patch on. That was typical of Raymond Dobratz Jr., 58, a pipefitter …