Manchester City has gambled on Raheem Sterling being the key signing that manager Manuel Pellegrini needs to lift his team back to the top of English premier.

But it likely won't be the fortunes of the 20-year-old England winger - the most expensive acquisition in Europe this offseason at 49 million pounds ($76 million) - that will determine whether City wins the Premier League title for the third time in five years.

Cameron van der Burgh heated up a chilly Tuesday morning at the swimming world championships by improving his own world record in the 50-meter breaststroke.

The South African won his heat in 26.62 seconds, shaving five hundredths off his previous mark established in a now-banned rubberized suit at the 2009 worlds in Rome.

Early on in "Ricki and the Flash," Ricki (Meryl Streep) gets a call that disarms her before she's even decided to pick it up. With smoky eyes, braided rocker hair and a swagger that suggests skin that's as thick as her leather pants, this doesn't seem like a woman who would back down from a challenge.

She hesitates more than once to pick it up — you get the sense that she's either become accustomed to being scolded by the voice on the other end of the line, or has just given up on dealing with that other life completely. It's a small but telling moment in a lovely film laced with intensely human details that allow the audience the opportunity to actually know its characters in ways that so many films come up short.

After so much pain, Greece must now figure out how to get its economy back on its feet.

The scale of the country's financial problems is mind boggling — a full quarter of the economy evaporated in the past six years and business activity is now plummeting further. Government cuts needed to qualify for a new bailout will hurt incomes for years to come.

An ex-con accused of fatally shooting a police officer who interrupted a drug deal turned himself in Monday, ending an intensive two-day manhunt, a spokesman for a U.S. attorney said.

Tremaine Wilbourn, 29, was with his family when he turned himself in at a federal building in Memphis, said Louis Goggans, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office.

A circus tent collapsed when a severe storm raked a northern New Hampshire fairground Monday, killing two people and injuring 22 others, authorities said.

WMUR-TV (http://bit.ly/1Hnh5WB ) reported that state Department of Safety spokesman Michael Todd confirmed the fatalities.

For a club of Manchester United's standing, two years out of the Premier League title conversation is two too many.

There are reasons to be optimistic that the run won't stretch to a third season, even though the 20-time English champions head into the new campaign with as many questions as answers.

Parents of picky eaters take heart: New research suggests the problem is rarely worth fretting over, although in a small portion of kids it may signal emotional troubles that should be checked out.

Preschool-aged children who are extremely selective about what they eat and dislike even being near certain foods are more likely than others to have underlying anxiety or depression, the study found. But only 3 percent of young children studied were that picky.

American teenager Katie Ledecky has improved her own world record in the 1,500-meter freestyle at the swimming world championships.

The 18-year-old Ledecky completed the marathon-like race in 15 minutes, 27.71 seconds — shaving 0.65 seconds off the mark she set at last year's Pan Pacific championships in Australia.

The IOC will take action against any Olympic athletes if they are found guilty of the latest doping allegations rocking the sport of track and field, IOC President Thomas Bach said Monday.

Bach said it is up to the World Anti-Doping Agency to investigate the allegations, including that one-third of medals in endurance races at the Olympics and world championships from 2001 to 2012 were won by athletes who recorded suspicious blood tests.