Country star George Jones has been hospitalized.

Jones postponed weekend concerts in Atlanta and Virginia after doctors admitted him to a Nashville hospital on Thursday.

The director and stars of the new cop comedy "The Heat" say they hope their film will provide some comic relief to Bostonians in the wake of Monday's marathon bombings.

Director Paul Feig, and actresses Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy promoted "Heat" Thursday at CinemaCon, the annual convention of theater exhibitors. "The Heat" casts Bullock and McCarthy as an FBI agent and a Boston cop forced together to take on a violent drug lord.

Hunky love interest Liam Hemsworth is promising the highly-anticipated "Hunger Games" sequel will not disappoint fans.

It was a low-key pitch at the movie theater convention CinemaCon, where most stars boasted their films would be the biggest, loudest, splashiest blockbusters of the summer.

NASA's planet-hunting telescope has discovered two planets that seem like ideal places for some sort of life to flourish. And they are just the right size and in just the right place.

One is warm, the other chilly.

The Copa Libertadores match between Gremio of Brazil and Huachipato of Chile ended in a huge brawl on Thursday, with coaches fighting each other and players throwing punches and kicks.

The altercation began after the 1-1 draw in Talcahuano, Chile, which eliminated the hosts from the group stage and allowed Gremio to advance.

Brazil striker Neymar is now a comic book character in Brazil, joining other local football stars who have become a reading option to children across the country.

The 21-year-old player announced the "Neymar Jr." comic book on Thursday in a partnership with leading Brazilian cartoonist Mauricio de Sousa.

The Brazilian government plans to improve services at its airports during the Confederations Cup, bringing in more workers and expanding security for the increased passenger traffic expected during the warm-up tournament ahead of the World Cup.

The government says it will increase staff by 77 percent at the six airports used for the June 15-30 tournament, including the number of police, and custom and immigration officers.

The Detroit Pistons, Cleveland Cavaliers and Philadelphia 76ers are looking for new coaches.

Detroit fired Lawrence Frank and Cleveland sacked Byron Scott on Thursday, while Doug Collins downgraded his role at Philadelphia to adviser.

President-elect Nicolas Maduro was set to be inaugurated in Venezuela Friday, even as election officials moved to defuse a political crisis by yielding to demands for an audit of the results in Sunday's bitterly contested elections.

The last minute development came after Maduro flew to a South American summit in Peru Thursday, where he received international support for his new government hours before he was to be sworn in to succeed the late Hugo Chavez who died of cancer March 5.

The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing killed a university police officer and hurled explosives at police in a car chase and gun battle overnight that left one of them dead and his brother on the loose, authorities said Friday as thousands of officers swarmed the streets in a manhunt that all but paralyzed the Boston area.

The suspects were identified by law enforcement officials and a family member as Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, brothers from a Russian region near Chechnya, which has been plagued by an Islamic insurgency that has carried out deadly bombings.