Dallas

Two gunmen were shot dead May 3 and a security guard wounded outside a Prophet Mohammed cartoon contest in Texas, authorities said, as a bomb squad investigated the gunmen's car.

The Houston Rockets, led by James Harden's 28 points, punched their NBA playoffs second-round ticket on April 28 with a 103-94 victory over the Dallas Mavericks.

World renowned Israeli-American violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman will once again be in Istanbul for a concert on May 28 at Zorlu Center PSM. Perlman previously performed two sold-out concerts in the city in 2013 and 2014. 

A former Marine was sentenced on Feb. 24 to life in prison without parole after being convicted of murdering the US Navy Seal whose story inspired the blockbuster movie "American Sniper."       

By Terry Wallace

Roy Tarpley, the former Dallas Mavericks star center whose NBA career was cut short by drug abuse, died Friday. He was 50.

Tarpley had played in Greece for Olympiakos as well as Aris and Iraklis in Thessaloniki.

The Los Angeles Clippers have traded guard Jared Cunningham along with the draft rights to Turkish guard Cenk Akyol and cash to the Philadelphia 76ers in exchange for the draft rights to Serhiy Lishchuk.

BELGRADE - Serbian basketball player Milos Teodosic, who is a member of the national team and CSKA from Moscow, has been named one of the top five players in Europe in 2014 by Eurohoops.

This portal says Teodosic led Serbia to an unexpected final of the world championship in Spain, where he played extremely well.

Some healthcare experts are bristling at the assertion by a top U.S. health official that a 'protocol breach' caused a Dallas nurse to be infected with Ebola while caring for a dying patient

A Dutch moved to Romania after the fall of communism in 1989, and he has been working ever since to make a proper neighbourhood of Cluj-Napoca (northwest of Bucharest) out of the ghetto of Pata Rat (a name not related to the rodent, though).

US health officials scoured the Dallas area Wednesday for people -- including schoolchildren -- who came in contact with a Liberian man who was diagnosed with Ebola, as it emerged a hospital mix-up saw him initially turned away.