1.   Pirjo Haeggman, a Finnish middle distance champion, resigned from the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday rather than risk expulsion for being implicated in the widening bribery scandal.

2.   Pirjo Haggman, a Finnish IOC member implicated in the widening bribery scandal, has resigned.

3.   Pirjo Haeggman, a Finnish Olympic champion, resigned from the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday rather than risk expulsion for being implicated in the widening bribery scandal.

4.   A former labor minister was arrested Thursday in a widening bribery scandal involving lawmakers from the party of embattled Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori.

5.   Japanese prosecutors asked a court Wednesday for an arrest warrant for a ruling party lawmaker suspected of illegally taking money from a stock brokerage in a widening bribery scandal.

6.   The banks have in recent months been hit by a number of high-profile collapses and a widening bribery scandal.

7.   The head of the Bank of Japan will resign this month over a widening bribery scandal that has reached the central bank, Japanese media reported Thursday.

8.   The president of the International Olympic Committee expects his organization to find a new way of selecting Olympic cities as a result of the widening bribery scandal.

9.   The state-linked corporation, which oversees expressways, has already been tainted by a widening bribery scandal.

10.   The U.S. dollar rose against the Japanese yen and Tokyo stocks fell in early trading Thursday following the arrest of a central bank official in a widening bribery scandal.