Olympic 100-meter hurdles champion Sally Pearson will lead a team of 46 Australians to the world athletics championships in Moscow from August 10-18.

Pearson, who has been struggling with hamstring injuries, returned to form with a win last weekend in the Anniversary Games in the London stadium where she claimed Olympic gold last year.

A year after the summer Olympics in London, Britain's U.N. ambassador handed a baton to Brazil's U.N. envoy, whose country will host the next summer games in Rio in 2016.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon recalled running in London's torch relay and said he was happy to witness Monday's passing of the baton — "the great relay that symbolizes our common goals and values, and our commitment to use the games as a platform to promote mutual understanding and peace."

President Barack Obama says the San Francisco Giants are making a "habit" of dropping in at the White House.

Obama welcomed the 2012 World Series champions Monday at a South Lawn ceremony honoring their victory and their community service work.

Christian Benitez, a football star from Ecuador who led the Mexican league in scoring last season, died Monday a day after playing in a game for his club in Qatar. He was 27.

The Qatari club El Jaish provided no details about the death but said Benitez did not complain about his health Sunday. The team is awaiting a medical report.

Pakistani lawmakers began voting for the country's new president Tuesday in an election that has been marred by controversy over procedure and concern about overreach by the country's powerful judiciary, although there is widespread agreement that the ruling party's candidate will likely win.

The vote followed a late night attack by dozens of Taliban militants on a prison in northwest Pakistan, illustrating one of the major challenges the new president will face. The militants freed more than 250 prisoners, including 25 "dangerous terrorists," officials said.

U.S. border agents have found marijuana on a bus with singer Justin Bieber's tour as it crossed into Detroit from Windsor, Canada.

The Detroit Free Press reported that U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Ken Hammond confirmed that the bus was stopped Sunday as it attempted to enter the U.S. on the Ambassador Bridge.

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton met Egypt's ousted president on Tuesday, saying he was "well," but the country's political crisis seemed no closer to resolution despite her efforts.

Neither the interim government nor supporters of deposed President Mohammed Morsi showed any indication that they had shifted their positions after talks with Ashton, who left Cairo on Tuesday.

Many heart specialists aren't comfortable with discussing sex with their patients. But new guidance says they should, early and often, to let survivors know intimacy is often possible after a heart attack.

Discussions should involve everything from when and how to resume sex, to what position might be best for some conditions or not advised for others, according to a consensus statement released Monday by the American Heart Association and the European Society of Cardiology.

The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly confirmed James Comey on Monday to become FBI director, elevating the one-time Justice Department official who defied efforts by President George W. Bush's White House to renew a program that allowed warrantless eavesdropping.

Comey was approved 93-1 after one of the Senate's leading conservatives abruptly ended delaying tactics that had blocked a vote on the nomination. Sen. Rand Paul, mentioned as a possible 2016 Republican presidential candidate, had been thwarting the vote over his concerns about the FBI's domestic use of drones.

All of the workers at a propane gas plant in the U.S. State of Florida rocked by massive explosions were accounted for early Tuesday morning after officials initially reported more than a dozen employees missing.

John Herrell of the Lake County Sheriff's Office said early Tuesday that there were no fatalities despite massive blasts that ripped through the Blue Rhino propane plant late Monday night. Seven people were injured and transported to local hospitals.