Sunday, December 2, 2007

NO TRIFLE


One of the biggest truffles found in decades has fetched $330,000 (£165,000) at an auction held simultaneously in Macau, London and Florence.

A Macau casino owner, Stanley Ho, made the record-breaking bid for the white truffle, which weighed 1.5kg (3.3lb).

Luciano Savini and his son found the highly-prized fungus after it was dug up by his truffle dog near Pisa, northern Italy, last week.

He said he was overwhelmed by the high price paid for his discovery.

He said: "I thought we were going to beat the record, but not to really get to this amount.

"The biggest truffle of the century and the most expensive truffle of the century. There are no more words to say - it is all very beautiful."

Mr Ho outbid British artist Damien Hirst and Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed of Abu Dhabi to the prize.

Saturday, December 1, 2007

US CAPTURES DAVIS CUP



DAVIS CUP FINALS: USA 3 - Russia 0

Bob and Mike Bryan (USA) def. Igor Andreev and Nikolay Davydenko (RUS) 7-6(4), 6-4, 6-2 Saturday in Portland, Oregon to clinch the 2007 Davis Cup title for the United States 3-0 over the visiting Russian team.

This is the first Davis Cup title for the U.S. since 1995. The last time the U.S. swept the first three matches in a final was in 1990 against Australia.