CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Mischa Barton, 24; Tatyana Ali, 31; Nastassia Kinski, 51; Neil Diamond, 69

The Los Angeles Dodgers will travel to Taiwan in March to play a pair of exhibition games against a local team, Major League Baseball announced on Saturday.

Normal service resumed at the Australian Open on Saturday. Roger Federer and Serena Williams outclassed their opponents to book their places in the second week and Lleyton Hewitt gave Australians hope of an overdue local champion by pounding his.

PGA Tour rookie Alex Prugh fired a flawless seven-under-par 65 to edge a shot clear of a congested leaderboard in the weather-delayed third round of the Bob Hope Classic at La Quinta, California on Saturday.

The Ottawa Senators streaked to a sixth consecutive win with a 2-1 success over the Boston Bruins as Jason Spezza scored the tiebreaker in the second period on his return from injury in Saturday’s Northeast Division clash.

In her self-penned biographical sketch, singer-songwriter Sarah Buxton says she “had a whole plan mapped out” when she signed with Lyric Street Records in 2005.

Pee-wee Herman, the nerd in the grey suit with red lipstick and the distinctive “heh heh heh” laugh, has come out of retirement after almost two decades, and the critics think he’s still funny.

British actress Jean Simmons, who starred opposite Laurence Olivier in “Hamlet” during a career spanning 60 years, has died in California, Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday.