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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 ...
The EU begins an ambitious top-to-toe overhaul Tuesday of Mali’s ragtag army, far from ready to take the place of foreign troops to defend the West African nation against fresh attacks by Islamist insurgents. As France prepares to withdraw its 4,000 troops after routing ...
The sight of valuable fish being thrown back into the sea, mostly to die, has been a public relations nightmare for the fishing industry and driven calls by celebrity chefs and environmentalists for a ban on the practice. European fishing boats have long discarded ...
Mr. Smith went to Washington. Carlo Sibilia has come to Rome. The 27-year-old elevator salesman, who has no experience in political office, arrived in the Italian capital this month with 162 other freshman legislators from the Five Star Movement, a Web-based force whose success ...
Prime Minister Abe and two European Union leaders agree in a teleconference to start official negotiations on a free-trade pact in April.
The eurozone, a centerpiece of Europe’s efforts to knit its far-flung nations into a coherent whole, edged toward rupture Thursday as the European Central Bank said it was ready to pull the plug on Cyprus. The stark ultimatum came in a terse statement Thursday ...
To cut vehicle development costs and facilitate approval processes, the government is considering conforming to European Union automobile safety and environmental standards, sources said Thursday. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will discuss the issue with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and European Council President ...
The eurozone told Cyprus on Monday to ditch the part of a hugely controversial €5.8 billion ($7.5 billion) grab on savings that stung even the smallest of account holders in exchange for a €10 billion sovereign bailout deal, according to a statement issued after ...
Amid fears of a run on bank accounts in Cyprus, President Nicos Anastasiades is trying to persuade lawmakers to back an EU bailout deal that slaps a levy on bank savings. Anastasiades, in an address to the nation Sunday night, said that rejecting the ...
Japan and the European Union are preparing to hold summit talks in Tokyo in late March, to declare the launch of formal negotiations on a free-trade accord.
Japan and the European Union are preparing to hold summit talks in Tokyo in late March, to declare the launch of formal negotiations on a free-trade accord.
Rejecting a push by Britain, European governments on Monday decided against providing weapons to Syrian rebel forces, expressing fears that more arms would only lead to more bloodshed in a conflict that already has taken nearly 70,000 lives. The decision, by European Union foreign ...
Prime Minister David Cameron claimed victory in his battle to slash the EU budget Friday, saying marathon talks proved that his promise of a referendum on EU membership had not left Britain isolated. Cameron had vowed to accept nothing less than a real-term freeze ...