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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, ...
Recently I was asked to write a blurb for a new liquid plant-nutrient. As soon as I saw the name of the product, 早根早起 （Hayane Hayaoki), I smiled at this example of linguistic creativity. The four characters translate loosely as “early root, early sprouting”; ...
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 ...
Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday night with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune “Only Teardrops,” despite tough competition from spectacular stage shows by performers from Azerbaijan and Ukraine. Juries and television viewers across Europe awarded the barefoot, ...
One team’s quest for a first title has ended. The other team’s fight will continue next season. The Yokohama B-Corsairs outplayed the Rizing Fukuoka in Sunday’s bj-league championship game, controlling the tempo for larger stretches and making enough timely baskets to fill an instructional ...
Keegan Bradley overcame two early bogeys — and a dropped shot on the 18th for the third-straight day — to maintain his lead at the Byron Nelson Championship with 2-under 68 in the third round Saturday. Bradley had a 13-under 197 total for a one-stroke lead over Bae Sang Moon ...
Keegan Bradley again bogeyed Nos. 1 and 18 in the second round of the Byron Nelson Championship on Friday yet ...
A weekend filled with sharp words between Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia came down to one last showdown Sunday in ...
A rift between Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia attracted all the attention on a stormy day at Sawgrass, but Swedish rookie David Lingmerth quietly went about his business and wound up atop the leaderboard Saturday in The Players Championship. Lingmerth finished a wild day ...
Sergio Garcia had one of those stretches where it felt like every putt was going to drop. He needed every one of them Friday for a 7-under 65 to match his best score on the TPC Sawgrass and take a one-shot lead over Tiger ...
About the only thing Fred Couples and Colin Montgomerie had in common was a golf swing good enough to trust for a lifetime. Couples became the first American to reach No. 1 in the world and won the Masters by a blade of grass ...
Sakura Yokomine turned a two-shot deficit into a two-shot victory to collect her first tour title since 2011 at the Cyber Agent Ladies on Sunday. Yokomine, who set a tour record Saturday by making the cut in 92 consecutive JLPGA events, made three birdies ...
Phil Mickelson’s ball was just above the edge of the cart path, slightly below his feet, when he decided to hit a hard fade around the trees toward the green. The shot went out of bounds and cost him the outright lead Saturday in ...
Overnight leader Miki Saiki held on to capture her second JLPGA title in a row with a three-shot victory at the Fujisankei Ladies Classic on Sunday. Teeing off with a one-stroke lead, the 28-year-old Saiki pulled away with six birdies and one bogey in ...
Hideki Matsuyama overcame a two-stroke deficit on Sunday to win the Tsuruya Open in only his second event as a professional on the JGTO Tour. The 21-year-old, who became the third amateur in history to win on the tour when he captured the 2011 ...
A day after setting the Tsuruya Open on its ear with an opening round of 9-under-par 62, 66-year-old Jumbo Ozaki came back to earth on Friday with a 1-over-par 72. The second day’s play at the Yamanohara Golf Club’s Yamanohara course in was suspended ...
Jumbo Ozaki came within one stroke of matching the best round of his illustrious career on Thursday, when the 66-year-old shot a 9-under-par 62 to seize the first-round lead at the Tsuruya Open. Ozaki’s last tour victory, his record 94th career title in Japan, ...
Ai Miyazato came up short in her bid to defend the LPGA Lotte Championship title on Saturday, finishing tied for sixth as overnight leader Suzann Pettersen beat Lizette Salas in a playoff for her first win of the season. Miyazato started the day three ...
Overnight leader Miki Saiki held on to post her first victory of the season at the Vantelin Ladies Open on Sunday. Saiki birdied her final two holes in a round of 2-under-par 71 to finish one stroke ahead of Ritsukyo Ryu with a 54-hole ...
Hideki Matsuyama turned in an impressive round of 4-under 67 on his professional debut Thursday at the Token Homemate Cup, the opening domestic event of the 2013 JGTO Tour season. The 21-year-old Matsuyama, who became the third amateur in history to win on the ...