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Playoff Central: First-round schedule Top 10 playoff storylines Amico: Eastern preview Kiki’s Keys: Western preview 10 players with most to prove   Losing Rose is obviously a huge blow for a team that made the conference finals last year and captured the top overall seed for the second straight season. He was finally performing more like the reigning MVP after being ... more.

Derrick Rose crumbled to the floor, clutching his left knee. His season is over and the Bulls‘ title hopes just might be finished, too. (more...)... more.

Not many bands even make it to one decade. But Tabou Combo, the Rolling Stones of Haitian konpa, have been rocking a deep Caribbean groove for 44 years. They’ve adapted disco, funk and hip-hop to their now-classic konpa sound, sung out on AIDS, the travails of immigration, the earthquake — and the perpetual appeal of dance and the opposite sex. (more...)... more.

Haitian President Michel Martelly, who was recovering in a Miami hospital on Wednesday from a blood clot in his lung, condemned the gunmen who stormed and briefly occupied the lower chamber of Parliament in Haiti’s capital a day earlier. (more...)... more.

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama — with the help of a slowly improving US economy — is gaining ground in many of the 14 states where the presidential contest with Republican Mitt Romney hangs in the balance. (more...)... more.

Port-au-Prince - A police spokesman in Haiti says one person has been killed and 120 others revellers have been injured in accidents and in street clashes during Carnival festivities. (more...)... more.

Me Thierry Mayard-Paul, the Minister of Interior and Local Authorities strongly congratulates the different actors involved in the organization of Carnival 2012, which was a huge success. (more...)... more.

Haitian President Michel Martelly urged the Caribbean nation to remain calm as he seeks to replace his prime minister who resigned yesterday and accelerate recovery efforts from the 2010 earthquake. (more...)... more.

South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela successfully underwent hernia surgery Saturday, a family member told CNN Saturday. (more...)... more.

Whitney Houston, who ruled as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, has died. She was 48. (more...)... more.

Peyton Manning may never wear Indianapolis uniform again but doctors have cleared him to play for somebody. (more...)... more.

Four years ago, Eli Manning couldn't get any respect. We all viewed him as Peyton Manning's little brother and the only reason he found himself in Super Bowl XLII was because the New York Giants team around him was so good. (more...)... more.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti and the neighboring Dominican Republic could be in for a period of periodic powerful earthquakes, according to a scientific study released Thursday. (more...)... more.