Sheryl Swoopes of the WNBA's Houston Comets, opens up to ESPN The Magazine about being a lesbian because she's "tired of having to hide my feelings about the person I care about. " Swoopes, honored last month as the WNBA's Most Valuable Player, adds that she didn't always know she was gay and fears that coming out could jeopardize her status as a role model, "Do I think I was born this way? No. And that's probably confusing to some, because I know a lot of people believe that you are. "

A Swedish couple has named their newborn baby son Google, after the popular internet search engine. The father of the newly named boy, Elias Kai, is quoted in 'The Local', an English-Language newspaper in Sweden, as saying he is a great fan of the search engine, but the name means more than that.

A prediction goes wrong, after an astrologer survives the day he predicted would be the last of his life. On Thursday, hundreds of people made their way to the village in central India he calls home to see if he would die as predicted.

The "King of Pop" receives a jury summons at his Neverland Valley Ranch, four months after he was acquitted of child-molestation charges. Laurie Levenson, a professor at Loyola School of Law who monitored Jackson's trial says, "It's just one of those ironies of life that he'd be called as a juror. "

A couple is asking for the removal of signs promoting High Point as "the home of Fantasia Barrino," citing her new autobiography depicts the city negatively. In her book, "Life is Not a Fairy Tale," Barrino says she couldn't read after attending local schools and writes how her friends used to call High Point, the "Land of the Dead. "