With a World Cup waiting at season's end, Europe's top referees know they are under intense scrutiny when the Champions League starts next week.

UEFA wants its match official teams to get more offside decisions correct after high-profile errors in its marquee club competition last season. Also, a new interpretation of the offside law has brought more potential for controversy.

Lance Armstrong has returned his Olympic bronze cycling medal, the latest fallout from his confession to using performance-enhancing drugs.

Armstrong won the medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The International Olympic Committee in January vacated the medal Armstrong won in the road time trial. Armstrong tweeted on Thursday that he gave it back and a U.S. Olympic Committee spokesman released a statement confirming its return.

Voyager 1 has crossed a new frontier, becoming the first spacecraft ever to leave the solar system, NASA said.

Thirty-six years after it was launched from Earth on a tour of the outer planets, the plutonium-powered probe is more than 11 1/2 billion miles (18.51 billion kilometers) from the sun, cruising through interstellar space — the vast, cold emptiness between the stars, the space agency said Thursday.

Talk about a promising duo for a dark mob comedy: Robert De Niro, whose mob-film pedigree needs no explanation, and Michelle Pfeiffer, who was, after all, "Married to the Mob."

Happily, these two more than carry their weight as husband and wife in director/co-writer Luc Besson's new film "The Family."

The fashion universe has always been a bit of a self-contained bubble to outsiders. Those too-tall models in acres of silk? Those outlandish shoes you can't walk in? The dresses that cost as much as a small car? Nice to look at, but hardly a part of most people's lives.

The organizers of London Fashion Week, which kicked off Friday, are hoping to change that perception. The twice-a-year extravaganza — a trade event aimed at a few thousand buyers, editors, celebrities and fashion elite — needs to reach out and stoke more general public interest, they say.

A former Canadian prime minister says the real story of how a former Canadian ambassador protected Americans during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis is a "better story" than Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning picture "Argo."

Joe Clark, Canada's prime minister in 1979, made the remarks at a screening Thursday of the documentary "Our Man in Tehran" at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Nicole Kidman says she was shaken up after being knocked down by a bicyclist on a city sidewalk.

Kidman appeared on the red carpet Thursday night celebrating Francisco Costa's 10th anniversary as the women's creative director of the Calvin Klein Collection.

Philippine President Benigno Aquino visited a southern city infiltrated by Muslim rebels Friday, vowing to end the crisis and warning the gunmen against harming civilian hostages or resorting to flagrant destruction.

Aquino urged the port city of Zamboanga to stand firm as Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) fighters battled troops and set fire to homes for a fifth day in a bid to derail efforts to end a long Muslim rebellion.

Christina Aguilera says that although she went to Rwanda to help others, she ended up helping herself.

The 32-year-old singer visited Rwanda in June for a hunger relief effort. She said the experience helped her ground herself.

Israel's president will award this year's Presidential Medal of Distinction to a group that includes Hollywood director Steven Spielberg and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel.

Shimon Peres' office said Thursday that Spielberg will be recognized for his contribution to cinema and "his unique contribution to the memory of the Holocaust, to the State of Israel (and) to the Jewish people."