Italy outside-half Craig Gower has warned the Azzurri to beware a wounded Wales in their Six Nations international at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday. A shock win for Scotland away to Ireland on Saturday, the final day of the 2010 Six Nations, would condemn the losers of the Cardiff clash to the dreaded wooden spoon. Finishing last would represent a ...

French star architect Jean Nouvel has scrapped plans to build a high-tech skyscraper on the edge of Paris after the project failed to attract investors, officials said Thursday. Nouvel won the contract to build the modern concrete, glass and steel Signal Tower in 2008 as part of an ambitious plan to rejuvenate La Defense, the business district on Paris's ...

Simone Veil, an Auschwitz survivor and the first elected president of the European parliament, on Thursday joined the Academie Francaise, the elite intellectual guardians of the French language. The 82-year-old Veil, a former French minister who ranks among the country's most respected politicians, was only the sixth woman to join the "immortals", as the 40 members of the Academie ...