For the first time in 44 years, FIFA has created the bonanza of awarding two World Cups to eager countries in one day, with today’s announcement of the 2018 and 2022 hosts not only holding the hopes of nine nations in thrall today in Zurich, but also further complicating a process already snarled by tales [...]
EU-eurozone institutions are fighting the second debt crisis in six months and analysts now ponder openly how they would cope with a third and discuss how the single currency can be given a new lease on life. There are concerns that the strains could become systemic across Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain, the so-called weaker [...]
Lady Gaga was a big winner (three awards – for Best Song, Female and Pop) at last night’s MTV European Music Awards, but she was performing in Budapest and wasn’t at the event in Spain. She accepted via satellite. Eva Longoria was host of the show and changed outfits throughout. At one point, Katy Perry [...]
Lady Gaga big winner at MTV Awards: Lady Gaga has won three prizes at this year’s MTV Europe Music Awards in Madrid, Spain, claiming Best Female, Song, and Pop honours just a year after taking the best new act prize. The ceremony on Sunday converted two of the Spanish capital’s most iconic landmarks into glittering [...]
Pope Benedict XVI defended religion from critics Sunday as he dedicated the Sagrada Familia church, a still-unfinished emblem of the Spanish city of Barcelona. “This is the great task before us: to show everyone that God is a God of peace not of violence, of freedom not of coercion, of harmony not of discord,” he [...]