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The Women for Expo (WE) Website this week launched this week aiming to collect one million recipes from around the world for Milan Expo 2015.

 A collective of Colombian women working in Italy has provided a rare microcosm of working conditions among immigrant women in Italy and their insertion into Italian society, a seminar organised by the Italo-Latino American Institute underlined Wednesday. 

 For several years, the Italian-born photographer Nicola Lo Calzo has been working on a project about slavery. 

 The area around Rome's historic Spanish Steps will be off-limits to motorized vehicles as of August 4, the mayor announced Tuesday.  

 Italians settling down to watch their favourite US sitcoms this week have been given what for some was an unwelcome surprise: the actors were speaking English. 

Anger, indignation and a grudging acknowledgement that Cesare Prandelli’s team had fallen woefully short of expectations mingled in the sour cocktail Italians were forced to ingest after their side’s elimination from Brazil 2014.

 

 Sophia Loren has written a memoir to be published in December,Atria Books announced Thursday.  The memoir, “Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: My Life as a Fairy Tale,” makes use of letters, photographs and memorabilia from her long career in film to introduce each chapter.  

 Google creative head Amit Sood dreams of bringing Rome's Sistine Chapel into the virtual walls of the innovative Google Art Project.  

Eli Wallach, who was one of his generation’s most prominent and prolific character actors in film, onstage and on television for more than 60 years, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 98.

With a bandana on her head and a three-month-old baby at her feet, Azeb Brahana stands in the gardens of Catania’s train station and looks a little lost. The 25-year-old Eritrean left her country in 2012, aware, she says, that the life she wanted was not possible in a country with mandatory national service.

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