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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 ...
Serena Williams beats Maria Sharapova to set up a Qatar Total Open final showdown with Victoria Azarenka.
Serena Williams secures her historic return to the top spot by rallying past Petra Kvitova in the Qatar Total Open.
Viktoria Azarenka moves into the quarterfinals of the Qatar Total Open on Thursday night with an overpowering 6-0, 6-0 victory over unseeded American Christina McHale.
Top seed and defending champion Victoria Azarenka scored a convincing 6-2, 6-3 victory over Switzerland’s Romina Oprandi on Wednesday to move into the third round of the Qatar Total Open. Playing on a windswept Centre Court at the Khalifa Tennis Center, Azarenka had her ...
Third seed Maria Sharapova advanced to the third round of the Qatar Total Open on Tuesday night with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over qualifier Caroline Garcia of France. Sharapova, who had a first-round bye, broke Garcia’s serve in the opening game of the match ...
Former world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki recovers from having her serve broken in the opening game of the first set Monday night to post a 6-1, 6-2 victory over qualifier Mervana Jugic-Salkic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in their first-round match at the Qatar Total ...
Japan lost to 2011 runner-up Russia 3-2 in the first round of the Fed Cup on Sunday, missing out on its first semifinal berth in 17 years. Ayumi Morita won in the singles for the second straight day, defeating Elena Vesnina 6-4, 6-1, but ...
Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka, Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams headline a strong field for the WTA’s Qatar Total Open that features 17 of the top 18 players in the world beginning here on Monday. Belarussian Azarenka, fresh off her second straight title in ...
Ayumi Morita stunned world No. 20 Ekaterina Marakova 6-2, 6-2 to pull Japan level at one rubber apiece in its Fed Cup World Group first-round tie against Russia on Saturday. The pressure was on Morita, ranked 57th in the world, to beat Marakova after ...
After Japan wraps up a 5-0 win over Indonesia to set up a tie against either South Korea or India, Japan captain Minoru Ueda says his team has learned a lot about itself in the absence of ace Kei Nishikori.
World No. 1 Novak Djokovic steered Serbia to the brink of the Davis Cup quarterfinals Friday, easing past Belgium’s Olivier Rochus on a makeshift court he described as the worst he’s ever encountered. Australian Open champion Djokovic needed just 1 hour and 39 minutes ...
Japan moved within a win of reaching the second round of the Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group 1 after Go Soeda outclassed Indonesia's Wisnu Adi Nugroho on Friday.