Finance ministers Michel Sapin (France, left), Andrej Babis (Czech Republic, center) and Wolfgang Schäuble (Germany) talk at an ECOFIN meeting in Brussels | Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images EU ministers to push corporate tax avoidance rules By Nicholas Hirst 3/8/16, 3:12 PM CET Updated 5/13/18, 8:46 PM CET Europe’s finance ministers Tuesday gave their backing to new rules…
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Actress Gabby Sidibe has deleted a tweet backing her disgraced Empire co-star Jussie Smollett, as further details emerge over how and why he allegedly orchestrated a fake hate crime incident against himself. Smollett surrendered himself to police on Thursday morning to face charges of filing a false police report, after police determined he had faked a racist and…
Read more‘A long, costly and messy divorce’
BERLIN — It’s a question that strikes fear in the heart of the Brussels Eurocracy: What if the Brexit camp wins? Officially, Brussels is convinced the Brits will choose to remain the EU. The European Commission hasn’t even begun to contemplate a negative outcome, it insists. “For us there is just one plan: That is Plan A. There…
Read moreEU’s Brexit strategy: Grab the popcorn
Why should the European Union jump into the Brexit fight, when the United Kingdom is doing such a great job of fighting itself? For Brussels, the surprise resignation Tuesday of Sir Ivan Rogers, the U.K.’s seasoned and well-respected ambassador to the EU, provided the most dramatic and forceful validation yet of the bloc’s discipline in insisting…
Read more'Too much sex is costing Steaua' – Becali pinpoints reason for 1986 European Cup winners' poor form
The Romanian giants have been on a poor run and face a fifth year without a title, and their colourful owner believes he knows the reason why Former European Cup champions FCSB are on a three-game winless run in the Romanian top flight, and owner Gigi Becali thinks it’s because his players are having too…
Read moreSarah Silverman: Saying 'Gay' in a Joke Is Like Saying 'Colored People'
Actress-comedian Sarah Silverman compared making gay jokes to describing a black person as “colored,” after the unearthing of her homophobic tweets from years ago. “I think I can find other ways to be funny. I mean, I used to say ‘gay’ all the time…’Oh, that’s so gay.’ Were from Boston, we’d go, ‘That’s what we…
Read moreRenzi’s messy metamorphosis
MILAN — When Matteo Renzi became prime minister two years ago — three months after a resounding triumph in the primaries to choose the Democratic Party’s secretary — the 39-year-old was widely lauded as the man who could bring Italy back to economic and political sanity. Now he’s engaged in a war against the European…
Read moreOlivia Wilde: « j’ai hâte d’avoir des enfants »
L’actrice est une future épouse comblée. Fiancée à l’humoriste Jason Sudeikis, Olivia Wilde nage en plein bonheur, à tel point qu’elle rêve désormais de famille nombreuse. A 29 ans, tout semble réussir à la beauté féline. Olivia Wilde, petite chérie de la série Dr House, a enfin trouvé son ordonnance love, prescrite par l’acteur Jason…
Read moreKatie Holmes aimerait agrandir sa famille
C’est une femme nouvelle. Kaie Holmes invitée par le magazine Allure s’est confiée sans langue de bois sur ses projets à venir, ses astuces beauté. Un rendez-vous confidence avec une actrice qui compte bien faire parler d’elle. 2013, l’année de tous les défis pour cette maman de 34 ans divorcée depuis quelques mois. Mère de…
Read moreFrancis Lax, la voix française d’Harrison Ford et Magnum, est mort
L’acteur Francis Lax est décédé à l’âge de 82 ans. Il a surtout marqué la télévision et le cinéma français en doublant de nombreux personnages parmi lesquels Harrison Ford dans La guerre des étoiles ou Tom Selleck dans Magnum. Avec Gérard Hernandez, Roger Carel ou Dominique Paturel, Francis Lax a marqué l’histoire du doublage dans…
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