What do pine cones and paintings have in common? A 13th century Italian mathematician named Leonardo of Pisa.

Better known by his pen name, Fibonacci, he came up with a number sequence that keeps popping up throughout the plant kingdom, and the art world too.

FIFA's head of security has warned that the fight against match-fixing will ultimately flounder without the full support of governments across the world.

Ralf Mutschke said he hopes a Singaporean businessman accused of heading a crime syndicate that made millions by betting on rigged Italian games will be brought to face the courts with the help of Singaporean authorities.

Joe Johnson hit a tying 3-pointer in the closing seconds of the fourth quarter and hit a buzzer-beating jump shot at the end of overtime to lift the Brooklyn Nets to a 113-111 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday.

Johnson finished with 24 points, and Brook Lopez and Deron Williams added 19 each as the Nets ended a 13-game losing streak against the Bucks dating back to March 30, 2009.

Bayern Munich seized on the uncertainty sweeping through Arsenal to claim a 3-1 victory in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 match on Tuesday, enhancing the German side's status as one of the favorites for the title.

Germany internationals Toni Kroos and Thomas Mueller did the early damage with goals in the opening 21 minutes for Bayern — a beaten finalist in two of the last three years — before Mario Mandzukic sealed victory by bundling in a third in the 77th at Emirates Stadium.

Arch foes Iran and the U.S. have found some common ground in the fight to save wrestling as an Olympic sport.

U.S. wrestling coach Zeke Jones on Tuesday called the sport an important "ambassador," suggesting possible cooperation to fight a decision by the International Olympic Committee to drop wrestling from the 2020 Games.

Oscar Pistorius told a packed courtroom Tuesday that he shot his girlfriend to death by mistake, thinking she was a robber. The prosecutor called it premeditated murder.

Microsoft is so confident it has the Internet's best email service that it's about spend at least $30 million to send its message across the U.S.

The barrage begins Tuesday when Microsoft's twist on email, Outlook.com, escalates an assault on rival services from Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., AOL Inc. and a long list of Internet service providers.

A Palestinian group said Tuesday hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli jails are refusing food for one day in solidarity with four other inmates who are on hunger strike.

The move could escalate a brewing crisis. One of the four hunger-striking Palestinians is 35-year-oldSamer Issawi whose health has severely deteriorated after he has refused food, on-and-off, for more than 200 days.

With scant snowfall and barren ski slopes in parts of the U.S. Midwest and Northeast the past couple of years, some scientists have pointed to global warming as the culprit.

Then, when a whopper of a blizzard smacked the Northeast with more than 2 feet (0.6 meters) of snow in some places earlier this month, some of the same people again blamed global warming.

Pianist Herbie Hancock will celebrate the special connection between Turkey and jazz music forged decades ago when the Turkish ambassador opened his residence to white and black musicians at a time when segregation held sway in the U.S. capital.

Hancock, a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, is organizing a gala concert with jazz stars from around the world on April 30 at the famed Hagia Irene in the outer courtyard of Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, which has been designated the host city for the second annual U.N.-sanctioned International Jazz Day.