Miguel Ángel Jiménez defeated Lee Westwood on the third hole of a sudden-death playoff to win the Dubai Desert Classic.

Lee Westwood and Miguel Ángel Jiménez each shot 68s to catch the overnight leader Thongchai Jaidee after the third round of the Dubai Desert Classic in the United Arab Emirates.

Lee Westwood and Miguel Ángel Jiménez each shot 68s to catch the overnight leader Thongchai Jaidee after the third round of the Dubai Desert Classic in the United Arab Emirates.

The Dubai coast, seen from the International Space Station.

Tom Watson said that Tiger Woods should show public humility when he returns to golf and clean up his act on the course.

Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, 50, was a founder of the military wing of Hamas, and the Palestinian group accused Israel of the killing.

Mahmoud al-Mabhouh lived in Syria and founded Hamas’s military wing, which has carried out attacks against Israel since the 1980s, Hamas officials said.

A bailout by a neighbor may have contained the damage of a near-default. But the wild card for the area’s economic recovery is Iran.

Unless the world’s richest nations come to the rescue of weakened states, the financial crisis might sprout another leg and stop the nascent recovery in its tracks.

With an estimated $100 billion in debt and a burst real estate bubble, the Dubai skyline is defined not by the tallest building in the world but by a host of unfinished buildings.