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...sports, the New York Yankees won not only the World Series but Google's crown as well. They were the most searched Major League Baseball team, joining the Los Angeles Lakers for basketball and the Pittsburgh Steelers for football. Brett Favre's return to football was the biggest unretirement story of the year, dominating Lance Armstrong's return to the Tour De France as well as similar comebacks by boxer Floyd Mayweather and tennis star Kim Clijsters...
While the Anglophile sheik kept a stiff upper lip, Dubai's inability to pay its debts is a heavy blow to an ego that easily dwarfs Dubai's gleaming new 160-story skyscraper. In the wake of the 2008 global financial meltdown, Sheik Mohammed repeatedly waved off predictions of Dubai's demise, staunchly defended his economic development model and dismissed Western media criticism as a bigoted slur on an Arab success story. "I can safely say that we have succeeded in containing the risks of the global financial crisis in record time," he said last April. Indeed, even...
...silent about the charges leveled against him. "I expect he won't say anything during the whole trial," says his lawyer, Günther Maull. And, he adds, even if prosecutors can prove that Demjanjuk was at Sobibor, Maull maintains that he would have been there under duress. (Read "New Trial for Nazi War-Crimes Suspect...
...property projects already reportedly frozen in Dubai, the news raised the specter of a gigantic default that would sink exposed creditors around the world. "Inspired by Islamic artifacts," read the sheik's post on Twitter during a visit to the British Museum as share prices from Tokyo to New York City were about to plunge in response to Dubai's announcement. (See a story about Dubai's debacle and the global financial crisis...
Italy's influential Northern League Party has stood out over the past decade for its particular knack in finding new (and not-so-new) ways of offending people based on country of origin and color of skin. In 2003, Umberto Bossi, founder of the party, which once espoused separatism, told an interviewer that police should open fire on the boatloads of undocumented Africans arriving on Italian shores, calling the would-be immigrants "bingo-bongos." Other Northern League pols have proposed everything from separate trains for immigrants to banning the building of new mosques and even prohibiting the serving of kebabs...