Ewen McKenzie never disguised his desire to be Wallabies head coach. He wore the gold jersey in 51 tests, won the 1991 Rugby World Cup, and minutes after he was officially appointed to the Australian job, the ex-front-rower was already laying down the law.

Three days after the Wallabies' embarrassing 41-16 loss to the British and Irish Lions, the Australian Rugby Union on Tuesday ended months of speculation by confirming McKenzie as the replacement for Robbie Deans, who quit six months before his contract was due to expire.

A glance at the list of men's singles champions at Wimbledon the last dozen years reveals plenty of pleasant-enough looking chaps, though not a single slam-dunk male model in the bunch.

No matter. Each one was instantly fawned over the moment he held the trophy aloft, celebrated for toughness, smarts and the kind of devotion that knows no quit.

Mariah Carey is in the hospital for a shoulder injury.

The pop star's representative says the singer went to the hospital in New York late Sunday after injuring herself while filming a music video.

Country music singer Randy Travis was in critical condition Monday night at a Texas hospital, a day after he was hospitalized for heart problems.

A news release from the singer's publicist said the 54-year-old Travis was admitted to the hospital Sunday in Dallas and was in critical condition Monday evening.

It took longer than expected, but NASA's Curiosity rover is finally heading toward a Martian mountain.

The nuclear-powered, six-wheel rover drove a total of 190 feet (58 meters) since July Fourth, leaving the spot where it spent the past seven months examining rocks and dirt.

A new study links heavy air pollution from coal burning to shorter lives in northern China. Researchers estimate that the half-billion people alive there in the 1990s will live an average of 5½ years less than their southern counterparts because they breathed dirtier air.

China itself made the comparison possible: for decades, a now-discontinued government policy provided free coal for heating, but only in the colder north. Researchers found significant differences in both particle pollution of the air and life expectancy in the two regions, and said the results could be used to extrapolate the effects of such pollution on lifespans elsewhere in the world.

Bayern Munich has agreed to sell Germany striker Mario Gomez to Italian club Fiorentina.

Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge reached a deal with Fiorentina president Andrea Della Valle on Monday, with contracts to be finalized and signed in the coming days, the Bundesliga club announced on its website.

Roger Federer has fallen to No. 5 in the new ATP rankings, the first time in a decade he's been that low.

Federer's second-round loss at Wimbledon, a year after taking the title, drops him from No. 3. He was fifth in the rankings of June 23, 2003, two weeks before he won Wimbledon for the first of his record 17 major championships.

Aeroflot has signed up as Manchester United's official airline in the first international sports sponsorship deal for the Russian carrier.

United managing director Richard Arnold says the deal is the club's "first commercial venture in Russia, an expanding market we are keen to explore further."

Users who may have grown frustrated with Facebook's rudimentary search feature are getting an updated version designed to make it easier to find people, places and photos on the site.

Facebook unveiled its social search tool in January but only made it available to a small fraction of its 1.1 billion users, as its engineers continued to tweak and test it. Over the next few weeks, starting on Monday, the company is rolling out the social search tool, called "Graph Search," to everyone whose language is set to U.S. English.