(Reuters) – Italy’s navy said it rescued nearly 1,800 migrants in overcrowded boats in the Mediterranean over the weekend, and a merchant ship recovered five bodies from a sinking rubber raft off the coast of Libya. Calmer summer seas have led
HOYLAKE, England (AP) — His once-comfortable lead gone, Rory McIlroy could have flinched. Instead, he blew everyone away. With a stunning display down the stretch, including a pair of eagles, McIlroy put a stranglehold on his third major championship by
Silvio Berlusconi, former Italian prime minister and billionaire media mogul, has won an appeal against his 2013 conviction for paying an under-age prostitute for sex. His seven-year sentence was overturned by judges in Milan, meaning the 77-year old politician is
OYONNAX, France (AP) — French rider Tony Gallopin led a late breakaway in a show of opportunism and savvy racing to win Wednesday’s 11th stage of the Tour de France as Italy’s Vincenzo Nibali retained the overall lead. The peloton
What does a lame duck President do with his time when he’s not raising money or giving speeches about various crises around the world? He holds dinner parties with important people to talk about important things. The NY Times reports
PLANCHER-LES-MINES, France (AP) — Italy’s Vincenzo Nibali stamped his dominance on the Tour de France by winning Stage 10 in the Vosges mountains on Monday — shortly after his biggest rival for the title, two-time champion Alberto Contador, crashed out
Eurozone market wobbles, bank and sovereign jitters – as Diane Keaton sang in Annie Hall, “Seems like old times.” Or at least, seems like 2012. Yesterday a “mild” global sell-off was triggered by fears that financial troubles at Portugal’s Banco
GIGLIO Italy (Reuters) – Technicians on Monday began a complex operation to refloat and tow away the wreck of the Costa Concordia, two and a half years after the luxury liner capsized off the Italian coast, killing 32 people. The
The 65,000-ton Royal Navy aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth, launched by Her Majesty on July 4 and praised as “a national instrument of power,” is in fact “a ship with no real purpose other than to act as the monument to
The European Union must renew a focus on foreign policy that was neglected as it dealt with a debt crisis, Italy’s president Giorgio Napolitano said in an interview on Saturday. Napolitano, an 89-year old former Communist hard-liner, told the newspaper
EPERNAY, France (AP) — Matteo Trentin has won the seventh stage of the Tour de France in a photo finish, after a group crash and hilly final section split the pack — notably ensnaring U.S. rider Tejay van Garderen. Italy’s
Amnesty International has revealed its pro-immigration prejudice by criticising member states of the European Union for spending hundreds of millions of euros trying to build effective border control. In a report published this week, Amnesty International complains that, “EU migration
The population of the European Union stood at 507.4 million people on January 1, official EU data showed Thursday, with a significant boost from immigration. According to the Eurostat agency, the EU’s population grew by 1.7 million people over a
Sunday’s World Cup championship game pits Pope Francis’ native Argentina against retired Pope Benedict’s native Germany. The Catholic Church has witnessed pope/anti-pope feuds. But it has never experienced two popes watching the soccer teams of their homelands battle it out
Luis Suarez, meet Mike Tyson. The retired 50-6 boxer commented Tuesday on the Uruguayan striker suspended from the World Cup, and all soccer-related activity for the next four months, for biting Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini in front of an audience of
LILLE, France (AP) — One former Tour de France champion dropped out of this year’s race and another crashed but recovered as the cycling showcase got back on home turf Tuesday after a boisterous three-day start across the channel in
Two weeks ago in a visit to southern Italy, Pope Francis said that members of organized crime are excommunicated. In response, mobsters in Calabria have struck back in an unusual and insulting way. The Italian press and the Catholic news
LONDON (Reuters) – German Marcel Kittel claimed his second stage victory of the 2014 Tour de France when he comfortably won a bunch sprint on the Mall on Monday. The riders traveled from the university town of Cambridge to the
Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi plans to use Italy’s six months in the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union to push the EU to take more responsibility for the tens of thousands of illegal migrants who are
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Gonzalo Higuain’s first goal of this World Cup sent Argentina into the semifinals on Saturday with a 1-0 win over a disappointing Belgium. Argentina, which hadn’t advanced past the World Cup quarterfinals since 1990, put in
Not content with ruining his own country’s economy and seeing some of its best and brightest flee to freer lands, the French President, François Hollande, is trying to spread his own particular flavour of socialism across Europe via everyone’s favourite
Chinese online stores are cheekily trying to cash in on Uruguay striker Luis Suarez’s notorious bite of an opponent at the World Cup by selling bottle openers with his image. Liverpool forward Suarez was given a four month ban from
While David Cameron and his government are still reeling from the “coup” pulled off by the European Parliament last week in Brussels, when MEPs seized control of the selection of the next president of the European Commission away from national
A deep divide is growing between Britain and the EU as the latter piles on regulations in the name of the Single Market. Jean-Claude Juncker’s “election” as President of the European Commission is just the latest manifestation of this. With an increasing
Degenerate gamblers of Planet Earth, rejoice! The bookmakers have finally released the odds for the 2018 World Cup. The painful wait is over! The United States, which played competitively to reach the knockout round this summer, faces a 50-1 uphill
