Gaming

New York -- More than 1 million copies of "Ghostbusters: The Video Game" were sold in North America during its first month in release, Atari said Monday.

London, June 11: England moved to within one win of qualifying for the 2010 World Cup finals after they hammered minnows Andorra 6-0 at Wembley.

Toronto, June 11: Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt was named winner of the 2009 Laureus World Sportsman of the Year Award.

Hamburg, June 11 Russia moved to within a point of Germany after a 3-0 win over Finland, while England and already-qualified Netherlands continued their winning runs in football World Cup qualifiers.

Pretoria, June 11: Italy struggled to a 4-3 win over New Zealand in a warm-up friendly for the Confederations Cup beginning here Sunday.

New York City, May 24: Hundreds of menacing bees swarmed in front of the Union Square GameStop store in New York City, forcing the store to shutter for over two hours and making the street hazardous for the shocked pedestrians.

San Francisco -- San Francisco officials said an estimated 150,000 people left their cars at home and rode bikes to work and school Friday for the annual Bike to Work Day.

Los Angeles, May 15: The game-console market in the U.S., led by Nintendo Co. (TYO: 7974; FWB: NTO), slid for the second consecutive month in April amid a slowing economy. Wii console, the flagship brand of Nintendo, plummeted a record 52 percent.

Ames, April 20: Video game addiction is nothing unheard of. Parents often casually discuss their children’s obsession with video games. But little do they realize that the problem could be serious, at least in some cases.

Fullerton, Calif. -- Arraignment has been postponed until June for a California man accused of causing an accident that killed LA Angels' pitcher Nick Adenhart and two other people.