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Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, ...
Tonkatsu is comfort food, gourmand grub — not a gourmet delicacy. So what are those hearty, unpretentious deep-fried breaded pork cutlets doing in an elegant little bar-style restaurant above one of Ginza’s temples to high-end consumption? Katsuzen has come a long way from its ...
Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case in point. Not only ...
It is a tricky deal being an authorized biographer. Charles Moore’s big advantage over those who have previously tackled Margaret Thatcher is that he has been provided with material denied to them. Of the arrangement that he was offered by his subject, he writes: ...
Unbelievable energy. Splendid self confidence. Never-wavering faith in his abilities or his teammates. Those are ingredients to success for Draelon Burns, the Yokohama B-Corsairs’ super substitute. Burns buried a remarkable three buzzer-beating shots to close out the three final quarters, and his team needed ...
After David Beckham’s long and distinguished soccer career ends on an artificial turf field in northwestern France, his life promises to be perhaps even more glamorous than it already has been. Nearly 20 years after breaking into the Manchester United lineup, the 38-year-old former England captain won the French league ...
Held a virtual prisoner by the Bolsheviks months before his execution, Russia’s last czar Nicholas II pasted informal snapshots of ...
Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, ...
An Organization of American States study released Friday is calling for a serious discussion on legalizing marijuana. Advocates for drug policy reform called the report historic, though it made no specific proposals. It said there is “no significant support” among the 35-member OAS for ...
President Barack Obama’s most recent budget request will reduce borrowing by $1.1 trillion over the next decade compared with current law — almost entirely through higher taxes on the rich, large estates and smokers, congressional budget analysts said Friday. In addition to raising nearly ...
An unemployed drifter who became an Internet sensation in February after he brandished a hatchet to stop an assault has been charged with murder following his arrest in Philadelphia, police said. Caleb “Kai” McGillvary, 24, was detained at a bus station Thursday after a ...
A video purportedly showing Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack has caused an uproar in Canada. Ford on Friday called the allegations “ridiculous.” The video has not been released publicly, and there is no way to verify whether it is authentic. Reports by gossip ...
Rights activists visiting abandoned government prisons in the first Syrian city to come under rebel control have found torture devices and other evidence that detainees were abused there, Human Rights Watch said in a report Friday. Raqqa, in eastern Syria, was overrun in late ...
Residents of a New York City apartment building are up in arms over an exhibition of candid photographs one of their neighbors took of them without their knowledge or permission. “The Neighbors,” a gallery show of the pictures surreptitiously taken by American photographer Arne ...
The ousted head of the U.S. tax agency apologized to Congress on Friday for his agency’s tougher treatment of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, saying it resulted from a misguided effort to handle a flood of applications, not bias. Lawmakers from both parties criticized ...
Underground commuters in Prague who are looking for love will soon be able to try their luck in designated dating cars, a transport spokesman said Friday. “People meet there, pass by each other, and if they like one another they can start a relationship,” ...
Gen. Jorge Videla, Argentina’s dictator at the height of its “Dirty War” against leftist activists, died Friday in prison while serving time for crimes against humanity. He was 87. The prison doctor on duty found Videla in the morning “sitting on the toilet in ...
One of Alaska’s most restless volcanoes shot an ash cloud 4,500 meters into the air Friday as its eruption continued. An air traffic controller in the region said small planes have flown around the plumes emitted by the Pavlof volcano, 1,000 km southwest of ...
Women cannot contest Iran’s June 14 presidential election, a member of the Islamic state’s electoral watchdog said in media reports Friday, dashing the hopes of some 30 female candidates. “The law prohibits women from being president,” said hardline cleric and former judiciary chief Ayatollah ...
Jewelry worth $1.4 million was stolen from a hotel in a predawn heist Friday during the Cannes Film Festival, officials said. The robbery took place in the hotel room of an American employee of Swiss bijoutier Chopard as she was out for the evening. ...