Phoenix News

Wellington Phoenix goalkeeper Mark Paston has been deemed fit for Friday’s A-League match away to Brisbane, but newly-signed shot-stopper Danny Vukovic will be challenging for the No.1 jersey.

The Phoenix added the highly-rated former Olyroo Vukovic to their goalkeeping unit this week after being left in the lurch when Turkish team Konyaspor terminated his newly signed three-year deal.

Windows Project Phoenix crashed faster than Windows XP with a bad driver, but instead of a blue screen there was just the embrace of the water at Long Beach, California’s Rainbow Harbor.

Windows Phoenix managed to fly only for a brief moment at Flugtag, a competition sponsored by Red Bull, designed to let flight enthusiast to build and attempt to fly their own machines off a 30-foot high flight deck.

A Windows machine crashing just after launch wouldn’t ordinarily be a news story, but in this case the machine was actually Redmond’s entry in a glider contest.

Project Phoenix, created by eight members of Microsoft’s Windows team, was one of about 35 human-powered flying devices entered in this past weekend’s Red Bull Flugtag event in Long Beach, Calif.

Phoenix police say a shooter remains at large after an argument escalated into a homicide early Friday outside a north Phoenix apartment complex.

Police say 20-year-old Arlandis West was involved in a verbal altercation with a gunman that became heated and led to the shooting.

Officers arrived and found the victim. West was transported to an area hospital where he later died.

A trailer for the new documentary charting Joaquin Phoenix’s reputed meltdown has been released online.

The film captures the “lost year” in the life of the Walk the Line actor, as he quit Hollywood to try his hand at rapping.

A trailer of a documentary charting Joaquin Phoenix’s career breakdown has been released – adding more confusion to the mysterious project.

The film claims to study a “lost year” in the life of the actor, as he quit Hollywood films to try to become a rap star.

Directed by his brother-in-law Casey Affleck, I’m Still Here follows the “reinvention” which has left critics and fans dumbfounded.

A Phoenix, Arizona distributor of the popular acai berry weight-loss supplement has been shut down by the feds.

The Federal Trade Commission has halted the business and frozen the assets of Central Coast Nutraceuticals, alleging in a lawsuit the company scammed customers out of at least $30-million.

The FTC accuses the company of deceptively marketing AcaiPure as a “risk-free weight loss product,” when in reality it does not help with weight-loss.

The Federal Trade Commission says an Arizona company defrauded consumers who signed up for free trials of acai (ah-sah-EE’) berry weight-loss pills and colon cleansing supplements.

The agency said Monday in Chicago that it filed a lawsuit against Phoenix-based Central Coast Nutraceuticals.

Six goals, a point apiece and all sorts of talking points from a season opener that was as wet and wild as the water park on the Gold Coast.

The Wellington Phoenix and Gold Coast United shared the spoils at 3-3 last night but only after referee Peter O’Leary took the extraordinary step of offering the two captains the option of abandoning the game at halftime.

Confident coach Ricki Herbert says the Wellington Phoenix will attack Gold Coast United from the outset in tonight’s season opener.

Fresh from his World Cup heroics and building on last season’s A-League finals run, Herbert will give four players in his starting XI a licence to thrill at Westpac Stadium.