CARACAS (Reuters) - A senior minister and close confidant of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez resigned on Sunday in a scandal that has shaken the OPEC nation's banks and triggered a purge of businessmen with ties to the government. In a move likely
Bath head coach Steve Meehan has admitted that the drug scandal that hit the club earlier in the year has affected his team's form this campaign.Bath have won just twice all season and suffered a desperate 16-0 home defeat to London Irish at the wee
TOKYO For politicians in , the road to scandal usually winds through construction companies, defense contractors or a mistress. For newly elected Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, the road leads to his mother, an octogenarian heiress.Prosecutors have
BEIJING - A Chinese court has started to hear the first civil lawsuit seeking compensation for last year's tainted milk scandal, state-run media reported Saturday. A district court in Beijing on Friday began hearing a case filed by Ma Xuexin, whose
BEIJING - A court is hearing the country's first civil lawsuit by a man whose child was sickened in China's vast tainted milk scandal, state media reported Saturday. At least six children died last year after drinking contaminated baby formula and m
FRANKFURT .'In Europe, you have the bribery, in Asia you have the betting and inBerlin you have the cashing in,' Joerz Ziercke, the president of the FederalCrime Office, the German equivalent of the FBI, said at a conference Thursday.German authorit
YAROUN, LEBANON Suleiman's brother was a Hezbollah fighter, killed in the 2006 war with . His house was destroyed by an Israeli shell. And now, his life's fortune is gone, too, lost along with the money of thousands of other Lebanese who put their
NYON, Switzerland - Another Champions League qualification match and six games from this season's Europa League have been linked to the European betting scandal, UEFA announced on Wednesday. When news of the affair first broke Friday, three Champio
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