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Tokyo Skytree will celebrate its first anniversary Wednesday but has not yet completed its prime mission of reliably broadcasting to households in the capital and its suburbs. Since December, the world’s tallest free-standing tower, at 634 meters high, has been making test broadcasts to ...
If you work in an office, you probably spend a fair part of your time sitting at a desk, which, of course, isn’t very healthy. To combat that the Pomodoro technique recommends that you work in intervals with regular breaks — for example, 25 ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
"Outsider art" is relatively new in Japan and, as a genre, works made by self-taught Japanese artists are still not very well known on the category-delineating, label-loving international art scene.
After all these years, Rafael Nadal still knows how to dominate Roger Federer. In the 30th meeting between the two tennis greats, Nadal controlled the final from start to finish to win 6-1, 6-3 Sunday for his seventh Italian Open title. “Rafa was just ...
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, ...
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's tax fraud conviction and four-year prison sentence are upheld on the first appeal in a case that could see him barred from public office for five years.
Guess who is back? The real winner as Italy’s long political crisis comes to an end is none other than Silvio Berlusconi, a scandal-tainted billionaire tycoon and international figure of fun. The 76-year-old former prime minister is not expected to be included in the ...
Italian center-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani said Wednesday that only a mentally ill person would want Italy’s top job as he raced to secure enough support to form a government in the recession-hit country. Bersani, who was asked by the president last week to ...
An ancient statue of Mars has lost its fake penis and his counterpart Venus her hands, reversing the cosmetic changes ordered by former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a newspaper reported Wednesday. In 2010, Berlusconi decided the two marble statues adorning the official residence ...
When Silvio Berlusconi put his foot in his mouth yet again last week, claiming that kickbacks are a normal part of doing business abroad, Italy waited for a crushing rebuke from his main opponent in this month’s election. But Pier Luigi Bersani is not ...
Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi vowed Sunday to refund the money Italians have had to fork out for an unpopular property tax if his coalition wins this month’s elections. Speaking at a rally in Milan, he vowed to scrap the levy and refund the ...
Italy’s playboy former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, announced a deal Monday with the rightwing Northern League ahead of next month’s national elections, potentially opening up a tighter contest in a race being closely watched by financial markets. “We have a pope,” the 76-year-old billionaire ...
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti’s decision to resign has left the door wide open for the former Eurocrat to run in the upcoming general election, or take on the mediator role of president. For now, the professorial 69-year-old — whose first foray into politics ...