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...this the end of online gambling's lucky streak? A day after the arrest in a Dallas airport of David Carruthers, ceo of Internet gaming firm BETonSPORTS, authorities last week charged the 48-year-old, along with 10 others connected to the Costa Rica?based company, [an error occurred while processing this directive] with racketeering conspiracy relating to the illegal provision of sports betting in the U.S. Complying with a court order, the firm also suspended services to the U.S., home to 85% of its business. Shares in rival operators tumbled over fears of a U.S. crackdown on firms taking...
...when it came to Stage 3 - making the money disappear. In late June, long after the story had fallen off the front pages, four more people were arrested in relation to the case - one of them in Morocco - and another million pounds or so turned up. That brings [an error occurred while processing this directive] the total to 41 arrests and 12 people actually charged. The first of the trials related to the case is scheduled to begin next April. Although less than half the stolen money has been recovered, the police are operating on the theory that the rest...
...just her Hollywood star power that made Audrey Hepburn glitter. In 1961, during a photo shoot to promote her role as Holly Golightly in the film Breakfast at Tiffany's. The actress was photographed wearing a Tiffany diamond-ribbon necklace. But this was no ordinary diamanté-its[an error occurred while processing this directive] centrepiece was the 128.54-carat Tiffany Diamond, one of the largest yellow diamonds in the world. The gem, since reset in a brooch known as "Bird on a Rock," pictured, is itself now one of the biggest stars in "Bejewelled by Tiffany...
...hard to find respite in this frenetic Tanzanian port. It's not impossible, though. Down a dusty dirt track in the Mikocheni district, a 10-minute taxi ride from the center, is Addis in Dar, an Ethiopian restaurant that serves calm - and culture - with its cuisine. On[an error occurred while processing this directive] the upper floor in an old colonial house, soulful African music plays to a backdrop of traditional handicrafts and jewelry for sale, and de rigueur pictures of the "Lion of Judah," Emperor Haile Selassie, in his safari suit...
When Belgian fashion first strutted onto the international catwalks in the early '80s, Antwerp took the credit - and rightly so. It was graduates of that city's fashion school - Dries van Noten, Ann Demeulemeester, Walder van Beirendonck, Dirk van Saene, Dirk Bikkembergs and Marina Yee, a.k.a. the[an error occurred while processing this directive] Antwerp Six - who were forging a distinctive deconstructionist style, a world away from Belgium's moules-frites-and-cherry-beer reputation...