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Rodrigues Jadson's extra-time winner gives Shakhtar Donetsk victory over Werder Bremen in the last Uefa Cup final.

Exclusives: Rulli, Petraglia writing script about massacre -- Italy's most infamous act of postwar political terrorism, the Piazza Fontana massacre, will get its first cinematic depiction in a high-profile pic being developed by Cattleya, the indie stable in which Universal holds a stake. The Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan in 1969 at the headquarters of a big national bank killed 17, wounded 88, and triggered a series of other deadly bombings in other Italian cities over the ensuing three decades, now known as country's 'strategy of tension' period. The bombings have been widely ascribed to the country's secret services as a ploy to prevent the country's Communist party from taking power, with the CIA also reportedly involved. Cattleya topper Riccardo Tozzi described the still-untitled Piazza Fontana project as 'a big 'JFK-like' film with an A-list cast.' 'Most of the main backstory is finally now known. So the time has come to come to terms with the past and reach some kind of closu

Two Labour peers have become the first members of the Lords to be suspended in more than 350 years, after offering to amend legislation in return for cash.Lord Truscott, a former energy ­minister, and Lord Taylor of Blackburn had been exposed by undercover reporters of the Sunday Times in January.They were recorded saying they would help to amend a bill in return for a fee. Though both denied the charge yesterday, the upper house agreed without a vote to expel them for six months until the end of the parliamentary session, the first peers removed from the Lords in this way since 1642. They were not in the chamber to hear their fate; Truscott has resigned from the Labour party, saying he has been made a scapegoat.Wrapping up the debate, the attorney general, Lady Scotland. warned peers of the 'constitutional enormity' of the step: 'This house has to consider whether these changed times entitles the house, obliges the house, to act differently.'The vote was moved after Truscott and Taylo

These are tough times for state and local governments. Many are facing big budget gaps. All over America, officials are looking for ways to save -- and finding some creative solutions.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday dealt President Barack Obama a blow by denying him the $80 million he sought to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, but the White House said that would not delay plans to shut it down by early next year.

New York/Washington - Worried parents kept children at home in New York on Wednesday out of the fear that they might catch A(H1N1) influenza, commonly known as swine flu, after the virus had forced officials to close schools. The Centres for Disease ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate panel on Wednesday backed legislation that would give the Food and Drug Administration power to control the advertising and manufacturing of cigarettes and other tobacco products.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp wants to pay back $45 billion in bail-out funds by the end of the year, accelerated by a program to raise capital, the financial Times reported on its website late on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama was expected to sign into law on Friday a package of sweeping new limits on credit card interest rates and fees that won final approval from the U.S. Congress on Wednesday .

For first time, space station astronauts drink water made from their own urine.