LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Grammy-winning R&B; singer Alicia Keys, 29, has married her long time boyfriend, rapper and record producer Swizz Beatz, Us Weekly magazine reported on Sunday.

Keys, who is pregnant with her first child, and Beatz exchanged vows in a small ceremony in a private home on the Mediterranean Sea, the celebrity magazine reported.

The magazine's web site had a picture of the couple, showing Keys wearing a cream Grecian-style dress and Beatz wearing a tuxedo.

The couple has been together since 2008.

Keys has won 12 Grammy awards since releasing her first album "Songs In A Minor" in 2001. She released her fourth studio album, "The Element of Freedom", last year.

NEW YORK – Call her Mrs. Beatz. Alicia Keys has married producer Swizz Beatz (Swiss Beats), with whom she is expecting her first child.

A representative for Keys on Sunday confirmed the wedding.

The Grammy winner and Beatz — whose real name is Kaseem (KAH-seem) Dean — announced in May that they were engaged. They were wed Saturday at a private ceremony. Deepak Chopra conducted the ceremony.

It is the 29-year-old singer's first marriage. Thirty-one-year-old Beatz has been married before and has two sons.

Their baby is due later this year.

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Dual-clutch transmissions have become increasingly popular in small cars and have even appeared in high-performance machines like the Porsche 911 and Bugatti Veyron. Now, Mitsubishi Fuso has become the first commercial truck maker to offer one of these fancy new gearboxes in a hauler.

LONDON (AFP) – Europe's main stock markets fell on Friday as investors looked ahead to key economic growth figures from the United States, after dissecting news of a major takeover, company earnings and eurozone data.

London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares fell 0.49 percent to 5,287.29 points in morning trade. Frankfurt's DAX 30 dropped 0.65 percent to 6,095.67 points and in Paris the CAC 40 index shed 0.64 percent to 3,629.08 points.

The Stoxx 50 index of top eurozone shares declined 0.72 percent at 2,733.01 points.

"It's all about the GDP (gross domestic product) numbers from the US today," said Simon Denham, head of trading firm Capital Spreads.

NEW ORLEANS – The only thing keeping millions more gallons of oil out of the Gulf of Mexico right now is a rush job: an experimental cap that has held for more than two weeks but was never meant to be permanent. As soon as this week, crews will be pumping in some insurance.

Engineers are preparing to launch a so-called static kill as early as Monday evening, shoving mud and perhaps cement into the blown-out well to make it easier to plug the gusher up forever and end the Summer of the Spill.

The effort carries no certainty, and BP PLC engineers still plan to follow it up days later by sending a stream of mud and cement into the bottom of the mile-deep underground reservoir through a relief well they've been digging for months.

STANFORD, California (AFP) – Eighth seed Victoria Azarenka of Belarus overwhelmed Russian fifth seed Maria Sharapova 6-4, 6-1 in Sunday's WTA tournament final here to win her first title of the season.

A day after her 21st birthday, Azarenka broke the Russian three times in the first set then took advantage of 16 unforced errors in the second set by Sharapova while committing only one to win the 700,000-dollar hardcourt event.

"I haven't lost a match yet since I turned 21," Azarenka said. "It's great. I can have cake now."

Azarenka, likely to jump six spots from her ranking of 19th, improved to 19-5 this season on hardcourts, the surface where she has won her four career WTA titles and where she will play at the US Open later this month.

ST PETERSBURG, Florida (Reuters) – Starting pitcher James Shields dominated the New York Yankees in 7 1/3 scoreless innings to give the Tampa Bay Rays an important 3-0 victory on Sunday.

The 6-foot-4 right-hander struck out 11 batters and allowed just four hits as the Rays scored early-inning runs and moved within one game of the Yankees for the American League East division lead.

New Tampa Bay reliever Chad Qualls, acquired in a trade with the Arizona Diamondbacks, made his debut in the eighth inning with one man on base and induced an inning-ending double play.

Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez was not in the starting lineup and struck out in his lone pinch-hit at-bat, leaving him stuck on 599 career home runs in his bid to become just the seventh player to reach 600.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. – Even for the NFL, a league that's famous for change, the Kansas City Chiefs seem saturated with newness.

From their relocated training camp, to their $375 million stadium makeover to the — relatively — relaxed and happy attitude of their head coach, it's a new day for the Chiefs.

The most obvious training camp difference is the added presence of thousands of happy, upbeat men, women and kids. They ring the new practice fields in St. Joseph day after day, seemingly oblivious to the heat and humidity that drape them like a heavy woolen blanket.

Even though the North Woods are cooler and more comfortable than Missouri in August, not many Kansas Citians were willing to make the nine-hour drive to River Falls, Wis., where the Chiefs trained for the past 19 years.

A new report from the The Wall Street Journal claims that the Department of Transportation is blocking the release of National Highway Transportation Safety Administration findings on the Toyota unintended acceleration issues. According to the article, NHTSA has compiled all the relevant information and written a report on its findings, but George Pearson, the former head of the agency's recall division, says that he was told that the Transportation Department doesn't want the information released. Why? Pearson didn't say, but the Journal seems to think that the information could add fuel to the argument that NHTSA is too close to automakers.

LONDON (Reuters) – British finance minister George Osborne urged the country's banks in a newspaper interview to use strong first-half profits to boost business lending rather than pay large bonuses.

Barclays (BARC.L), Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY.L) and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L) are all due to report first-half earnings next week, and many analysts expect hefty profits as the banks begin to put the financial crisis behind them.

In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph newspaper, Osborne said his stance was backed by the Bank of England, which has called on banks to set aside profits in preparation for the repayment of emergency central bank loans due next year.

"We have got to be pretty clear with the banks, as I was when I got them into my office a couple of weeks ago, that we will not tolerate banks piling the pressure on SMEs (small- and medium-sized enterprises). They have an economic obligation to assist that sector and give it all the assistance that they got," Osborne continued.