Despite setbacks in France, Italy and ever-truculent Germany, Rupert Murdoch remains as committed as ever to conquering Europe, say insiders at the media tycoon's News Corp.
There is no Taj Mahal to check off your life list here, nor, despite plenty of climbing and trekking amid stirring Himalayan scenery, a Mount Everest to conquer.
But a mixture of market opportunities, new approaches and demography means that football looks more likely than ever before to conquer the places it has passed by.In America, the beachhead is well established.
For several giants, including Mitsui, a trading house, and Toray Industries, a textiles and chemicals group, it is the first time that they have ever stooped to conquer shareholder approval in this way.
The pair were members of the first New Zealand expedition to the Himalayas in 1951 before joining the British Everest expedition to conquer the mountain just days before the Queen's coronation.
But she has also recently entered a musical world that nobody ever expected her to conquer – that of the heartbreak record.
"We can temper things, we might be able to slow the rate of emergence of resistance, but it's unlikely that we will ever be able to conquer it".
