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# scandal - Tuesday 18 June, 2013
US Navy football players face charges over alleged rape
The Naval Criminal Investigation Service has decided to send the case to a preliminary hearing.
# scandal - Monday 10 June, 2013
Column: Growing distrust towards European regulators shows we need evidence-based policy making
The BSE crisis in the UK, the tainted blood scandal in France and the recent horse meat fiasco are just some of the scandals that have hit Europe. But the response to public outcry, unfortunately, usually throws science out the window, writes Prof Rangar Lofsted.
# scandal - Friday 26 April, 2013
6 things an Irish mammy will always whisper
Some things cannot be said aloud. Ever.
# scandal - Friday 5 April, 2013
Pope urges Church to ‘act with determination in cases of sexual abuse’
The Vatican continues to receive around 600 claims against abusive priests ever year. Today’s comments from Pope Francis were his first on the clerical sex abuse scandal since succeeding Pope Benedict last month.
# scandal - Sunday 24 March, 2013
Sex, drugs and spies: the Profumo Affair had it all
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the lie that toppled Harold Macmillan’s government in 1963.
# scandal - Saturday 23 February, 2013
UPDATE: Horsemeat containing harmful drug ‘entered food chain’ in France
Meanwhile, French President Francois Hollande has called for compulsory labelling and traceability of meat in processed foods in Europe.
# scandal - Thursday 21 February, 2013
Horsemeat scandal spreads to Asia for first time
An imported lasagne has been pulled from the shelves in a Hong Kong supermarket.
# scandal - Saturday 16 February, 2013
Tesco chief outlines changes after horsemeat scandal
The company is to introduce new testing – but assured its customers that the changes won’t mean more expensive products.
# scandal - Tuesday 12 February, 2013
Coveney to chair ‘informal’ EU ministerial talks on meat mislabelling
EU member states will discuss the issue at a meeting chaired by Ireland’s Agriculture Minister.
# scandal - Thursday 3 January, 2013
Organ transplant scandal erupts in Germany, prompts calls for reforms
Two senior doctors have been suspended from the Leipzig University Clinic’s organ transplant centre as part of an investigation into alleged manipulation of the waiting list.
# scandal - Thursday 27 December, 2012
In pictures: 10 controversies of the London Games
We had match-fixing, drugs bans and sit-in protests over just three short weeks.
# scandal - Thursday 20 December, 2012
Senior US official quits over damning Benghazi report
The report into the attack on the US consulate in Libya on 11 September was scathing, finding evidence of major security failures and mismanagement.
# scandal - Sunday 4 November, 2012
More texts between David Cameron and Rebekah Brooks emerge
In the texts, Cameron praises a horse he rode while Brooks tells him that she cried during his speech at a Conservative Party conference.
# scandal - Saturday 20 October, 2012
Penn State scandal: Sandusky accuser tells of abuse ordeal in new book
18-year-old Aaron Fisher, who was known publicly for a year only as Victim 1, put aside anonymity yesterday to speak about his ordeal as a child.
# scandal - Tuesday 16 October, 2012
European health commissioner John Dalli resigns over lobbying allegations
The EU’s anti-fraud office has begun investigations into whether Dalli was open to lobbying and bribery on tobacco plans.
# scandal - Wednesday 3 October, 2012
Match-fixing scandal: Italian defender gets 22-month ban for deliberate own-goal
Andrea Masiello admitted to putting the ball into this own net on purpose while playing for Bari in 2011.
# scandal - Wednesday 26 September, 2012
Strauss-Kahn wants pimping charges dropped
The former IMF head admits attending orgies – but says he had no idea the women involved were paid to take part.
# scandal - Thursday 23 August, 2012
Explainer: Why Paralympians mutilate themselves to enhance performance
The practice of ‘boosting’ for athletes with spinal injuries is a natural but gruesome method of gaining a physical edge.
# scandal - Saturday 18 August, 2012
Ex-Barclays chief Bob Diamond criticised over ‘highly selective’ evidence
Head of British Treasury Select Committee inquiry into Libor scandal is highly critical of Diamond in official report.
# scandal - Sunday 12 August, 2012
VIDEO: Italian football player goes on hunger strike after match-fixing claims
Emanuele Pesoli has chained himself to the headquarters of Italy’s soccer federation.
# scandal - Friday 10 August, 2012
Tainted legacy? Olympic organisers defend use of Havelange Stadium
João Havelange is the former FIFA president now at the heart of a bribery scandal.
Magnificent Seven: podium controversies
Sometimes athletes have more on their mind than what to do with that bouquet of flowers.
# scandal - Monday 23 July, 2012
Column: HSBC funnelled money for drug kingpins? This isn’t surprising.
We’re not surprised any more by unscrupulous behaviour by banks – but HSBC’s actions are as bad as it gets, writes Nick Leeson.
# scandal - Thursday 12 July, 2012
Blatter: ‘I’m powerless to punish Havelange’
FIFA’s honourary president Joao Havelange has been embroiled in an extremely damaging TV rights payments controversy. But his successor says he can do little about it.
# scandal - Monday 2 July, 2012
UK to hold banking inquiry over lending rates scandal
David Cameron announced the inquiry in parliament this morning over the major scandal involving inter-bank lending rates.
# scandal - Sunday 1 July, 2012
RBS traders fired months ago over rate-fixing – report
Revelation comes after RBS confirmed it is one of the banks being investigated over manipulation of inter-bank lending rates.
# scandal - Sunday 24 June, 2012
What was Watergate? Here are 14 facts that explain everything
Deep Throat, Woodward and Bernstein, Saturday Night Massacre – just some phrases associated with the biggest political scandal in history. Here’s everything you need to know about Watergate 40 years on.
# scandal - Sunday 17 June, 2012
Official Olympic committees selling tickets on black market – report
An investigation has reported that there is ‘widespread corruption’ in the ticket sales process.
# scandal - Tuesday 29 May, 2012
Criscito pleads innocence after being dropped from Italy squad
The defender is being investigated as part of the latest match-fixing probe in Italian football.
# scandal - Monday 28 May, 2012
Trap ‘devastated’ by Italian match-fixing probe
The Ireland manager feels that the probe further harms the reputation of football in his home country.
# scandal - Wednesday 9 May, 2012
Drenthe accuses Lionel Messi of racial abuse
The winger, now with Everton, says the Argentine greeted him with ‘Hola negro’ when Barcelona faced Hercules in La Liga.
# scandal - Friday 4 May, 2012
Fresh rape claim in Strauss-Kahn case
A Belgian prostitute alleges that she was gang raped by Strauss Kahn and three friends.
# scandal - Saturday 28 April, 2012
New rules for Secret Service after prostitution scandal
Secret Service agents will now be assigned chaperones on some trips to enforce new rules of conduct that clamp down on excessive drinking – even when they’re off duty.
# scandal - Friday 27 April, 2012
US Secret Service probes new allegations about strippers and prostitutes
The scandal-plagued Secret Service is probing fresh allegations about agents’ actions on another Latin America trip last year.
# scandal - Saturday 21 April, 2012
Prostitution scandal: six Secret Service officers lose jobs
And it looks like the scandal may gain even more legs.
# scandal - Tuesday 3 April, 2012
You’re nicked: Bari defender admits deliberate OG in fixed match
‘They offered me €80,000′ said Andrea Masiello, ‘and I took the money.’
# scandal - Wednesday 14 March, 2012
Time served: Richards will return from ban next season
Dean Richards, who orchestrated the ‘bloodgate’ feigned injury scandal, will be given a role at Newcastle Falcons when his ban expires this August.
# scandal - Friday 17 February, 2012
German president Christian Wulff resigns over corruption scandal
Chancellor Angela Merkel has cancelled a trip to Italy to deal with the controversy
# scandal - Saturday 4 February, 2012
Terry could abandon England set-up
Reeling from his second loss of the captain’s armband, England centre-half John Terry is contemplating retirement from international football.
# scandal - Sunday 8 January, 2012
23 Olympic Summer Games scandals
Gender confusion, politics, violence, boycotts, doped atheletes, a doped horse – oh, and a race with only one competitor: some of the most striking moments of the past 100 years of Olympic Games.
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