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a

match-fixing

scandal. On Monday, Italian police arrested 14 people allegedly involved in match-fixing. Alex Capstick has more.

Mario Monti, the Italian prime minister, delivered his stinging message with a

proviso

that it was not a government proposal, rather a question he was asking as a passionate follower of football. Still, it illustrated his deep unease on a scandal which has

tarnished

the reputation of the game in Italy. Around 50 people have been arrested as part of a widespread probe into match-fixing which began last year. The Lazio captain Stefano Mauri and the Juventus coach Antonio Conte have become the latest high-profile names to become

embroiled

in the investigation.

The Spanish company Repsol has announced it's

pulling out of

Cuba after failing in a recent attempt to find oil of the island. A spokesman said the company assessed the high costs and low success rate involved in offshore drilling and decided it wasn't worth continuing. Repsol is likely to be replaced by the Malaysian company Petronas. Cuba's Communist government is relying on potentially huge offshore oil and gas reserves to provide a much needed boost for the economy.

A convoy of automated Volvo cars has completed a 125-mile journey on a Spanish motorway in the first public test of such vehicles.