Houston

Turkish center Ömer A??k and his New Orleans Pelicans broke the San Antonio Spurs? 11-game winning streak on April 15, punching their playoff ticket on the last day of the regular season.

Anthony Davis scored 31 points, pulled down 13 rebounds and blocked three shots to lead the Pelicans to a 108-103 win over the reigning NBA champions, who were storming into the post-season.

Turkish Airlines has inaugurated flights to San Francisco, the national flag carrier said in a statement.

It is the airline's second Californian destination, and its 11th in the Americas. The airline already has services to Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Toronto, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Washington, Boston and Montreal.

HOUSTON - Serbia's Janko Tipsarevic failed to reach the quarterfinals of the ATP tournament in Houston, after losing to Colombia's Santiago Giraldo in the second round in straight sets 7-6 (7-2), 6-3 early Friday morning CET.

It took Giraldo, currently 32nd in the world rankings, an hour and a half of play to reduce Tipsarevic's head-to-head advantage to 2-1.

HOUSTON - Serbian tennis player Janko Tipsarevic had a successful start at the Houston Open, scoring a hard-fought win over Guilherme Clezar of Brazil 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (9-7) late on Tuesday CET.

Two US astronauts on March 1 stepped out on the third spacewalk to prepare the International Space Station for the arrival of more commercial spacecraft in the coming years.
      
Barry Wilmore and Terry Virts began the spacewalk at 6:52 am (1152 GMT).
      

Oklahoma City's Russell Westbrook poured in 41 points to lead the Western Conference to a 163-158 victory over the East on Sunday in a record-setting NBA All-Star Game.
      
The total points scored in the 64th edition of the mid-season showcase surpassed last year's 163-155 Eastern Conference win for the highest-scoring NBA All-Star Game in history.
      

Delyan Dobrev, chairperson of the parliamentary Energy Committee, said that the liberalisation of the electricity market in Bulgaria should be completed in practice by the end of the year.

Dobrev explained that this will allow both businesses and individual customers to choose their supplier of electricity from among a list of 100 licensed companies.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has concluded his America tour one day earlier than planned, skipping a visit to pre-Columbian pyramids in Mexico and making an unscheduled stop in the United States.

Former U.S. president George H. W. Bush, 90, has been admitted to a Texas hospital suffering shortness of breath, a family spokesman said Dec. 23.

"President Bush was taken by ambulance to the Houston Methodist Hospital as a precaution after experiencing a shortness of breath earlier this evening," his spokesman Jim McGrath said.        

Playing in his first game for the New Orleans Pelicans, Turkish center Ömer Aşık helped his side grab a 101-84 win Oct. 28 against the Orlando Magic by scoring 14 points on 7-of-10 shooting, grabbing 17 rebounds and blocking five shots.