Italy's flamboyant Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will soon learn whether a controversial law granting top officials immunity from prosecution will remain on the books, after the country's top court heard arguments about it Tuesday.
Sebastien Loeb's unblemished start to the World Rally Championship came to a shuddering halt on Sunday as Jari-Matti Latvala eased to victory at the Rally d'Italia in Sardinia.
Jari-Matti Latvala saw his lead of the Rally d'Italia slashed by 30 seconds during Saturday's second leg as the Finn failed to match the pace of charging BP Ford team-mate Mikko Hirvonen.
A French battleship sunk by German torpedoes in 1917 is lying upright and almost intact at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, where it was found by an unmanned submarine surveying a proposed gas pipeline route between Italy and Algeria.
In his autobiography, Eric Clapton admits that he enjoys nothing more than sitting in a deck chair on a white sandy beach watching his children playing in the sea.
Few racing fans will forget the day Frankie Dettori stormed into the history books as the first man to take seven winners past the post on a seven-race card.
Sebastien Loeb is heading for his second successive victory in this year's world rally championship after taking a commanding lead on the first day of the Acropolis Rally in Greece.
Italy's flamboyant Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will soon learn whether a controversial law granting top officials immunity from prosecution will remain on the books, after the country's top court heard arguments about it Tuesday.
Sebastien Loeb's unblemished start to the World Rally Championship came to a shuddering halt on Sunday as Jari-Matti Latvala eased to victory at the Rally d'Italia in Sardinia.
Jari-Matti Latvala saw his lead of the Rally d'Italia slashed by 30 seconds during Saturday's second leg as the Finn failed to match the pace of charging BP Ford team-mate Mikko Hirvonen.
A French battleship sunk by German torpedoes in 1917 is lying upright and almost intact at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, where it was found by an unmanned submarine surveying a proposed gas pipeline route between Italy and Algeria.
In his autobiography, Eric Clapton admits that he enjoys nothing more than sitting in a deck chair on a white sandy beach watching his children playing in the sea.
Few racing fans will forget the day Frankie Dettori stormed into the history books as the first man to take seven winners past the post on a seven-race card.
Sebastien Loeb is heading for his second successive victory in this year's world rally championship after taking a commanding lead on the first day of the Acropolis Rally in Greece.
Reigning champion Sebastien Loeb maintained his lead in the Rally of Italy in Sardinia but came under pressure on the second day from the Ford pair of Jari-Matti Latvala and Mikko Hirvonen.
A last minute goal from Giorgio Chiellini earnt Juventus a 3-2 win at Cagliari and allowed the former champions to hold onto top spot in Serie A on Sunday.
While Bernhard Langer showed he can still challenge strongly when nearly 50 years old, his 17-year-old son Stefan plummeted to a 28-over 98 in Thursday's Dutch Open first round.
In the summer months, when the beaches get overrun with sun bathers, the super rich secure a yacht and head a little farther out to find solace on the high seas.
Another yacht sighting is nothing special to those along Corsica's southern port of Bonafacio - but vacationing pedestrians still did a double-take around 10 p.m. on Thursday.
Danilo Di Luca wrapped up overall victory in the Giro d'Italia on Sunday as he safely negotiated the final stage in Milan which was won by star sprinter Alessandro Petacchi.
Former Tyco International chairman Dennis Kozlowski returned to prison early Thursday afternoon after being hospitalized, according to a prison spokeswoman.
Germany defender Philipp Lahm will not return to full training for two weeks because of an elbow injury but the World Cup hosts are confident he will be fit for the June 9-July 9 tournament.
Germany coach Juergen Klinsmann will announce his squad for the World Cup on Monday, May 15 at 1100 GMT in Berlin, the German Football Association have announced.
Italian forward Gianfranco Zola announced his retirement on Wednesday bringing to an end a 21-year glittering career that graced the English premier league and Serie A.
In a major victory in the government crackdown on corporate corruption, former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski and ex-CFO Mark Swartz were found guilty Friday of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the manufacturing conglomerate.
Frenchman Sebastien Loeb won the incident-packed Cyprus rally on Sunday for his third consecutive victory, keeping on course for a successful defense of his world title.
Championship leader Petter Solberg is confident of a second consecutive Rally of Italy victory, even though the event has undergone a radical overhaul since last year's Sardinia debut.
A drawn-looking Pope John Paul II, unable to preside over Palm Sunday Mass for the first time in his 26-year papacy, waved an olive branch from his apartment window to tens of thousands of pilgrims who filled St. Peter's Square.
Juventus kept their firm grip on the Serie A title as Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic grabbed a 75th minute winner against Lazio at the Delle Alpi stadium on Sunday.
Police say they have defused an explosive device near a Sardinian villa where Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had been entertaining his British counterpart Tony Blair, news reports said.
Pete McEntegart, a writer at Fortune's sister magazine Sports Illustrated and a former Goldman Sachs banker, spent six months as a juror at the Tyco trial. After a mistrial was declared, McEntegart...
The judge in the corruption trial of ex-Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski sent the jury home Friday after deliberations almost fell apart but asked the panel to come back and try again Monday.
Jury deliberations in the Tyco corruption trial erupted in acrimony Thursday, raising the possibility that the panel may fail to reach a verdict in the nearly six-month long trial.
First came the season of germination, when this lush new crop of business scandals sprang with startling brightness from the richly manured soil of the market mania.
It's that time of year again, when the tables that groan under their own weight are not just actuarial. Many of us enter this season as lean as Dick Grasso and waddle out the other end as plump as ...
There's been a lot of nonsense criticizing Dennis Kozlowski for a perfectly innocent corporate retreat he had on Sardinia a couple of years ago. As you may know, the CEO of Tyco, with a heart as b...
Does EBITDA now stand for "Earnings Before I Tricked the Dumb Auditors?" As that current Wall Street joke suggests, the scope of corporate ethics has grown a bit wider in the past 12 months. The at...
A trim 60-year-old, Chairman Carl Hahn loves to tear around the Volkswagen test track on the replica of an antique motorcycle his employees gave him on his last birthday. This summer he is looking ...
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