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Italy's center-right leader Silvio Berlusconi called on Thursday for political stability but demanded that Prime Minister Enrico Letta's fragile coalition keep promises to cut taxes, despite growing pressure on public finances.
It's not a possibility," Knox said in an interview on NBC television's "Today" show. It is the first time she has said she will not go back to Italy." I was imprisoned as an innocent person and I just can't relive that," she told "Today" show host Matt Lauer.
Italy on Monday started the process of picking its candidate to complete for the Oscar for best foreign language film, led by Cannes Palme d’Or-nominated La grande bellezza (The Great Beauty)from Paolo Sorrentino, and Miel, the feature film directorial debut from actress Valeria Golino.
Little Italy was once a vibrant immigrant community, but a lot has changed for the historic downtown neighborhood that used to represent a different Italian region on every block.
John Legend, 34, and Chrissy Teigen, 27, had said they were getting married in September. And they did get married in September.Today. In Italy.The singer and the model made it official when they exchanged vows in front of friends and family in Lake Como, reports People.com.
Engineers embarked on a costly, painstaking and potentially perilous operation on Monday to raise the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise liner, saying they had successfully begun coaxing its battered hull away from two granite reefs where it ran aground 20 months ago, killing 32 people.
The Veneto region is home to some of the biggest names in Italian wine, Prosecco, Soave and Amarone della Valpolicella among them. Prosecco, in particular is enjoying a moment, as the Asolo, Conegliano and Valdobbiadene zones were recently elevated from DOC to DOCG status.
The wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship could be upright again next week, nearly two years after the liner capsized and killed at least 30 people off the Italian coast.The giant vessel, which has lain partly submerged in shallow waters off the Tuscan island of Giglio since the accident in January 2012, will be rolled off the seabed and onto underwater platforms.
The Italian President Giorgio Napolitano must reject a former CIA agent’s plea to be pardoned for a crime he committed in the country as part of the US-led rendition programme, Amnesty International said. Robert Seldon Lady – who is now believed to be back in the USA – wrote to the Italian leader on Wednesday to request a pardon. An Italian court previously convicted him in absentia, sentencing him to nine years in prison for his role in the abduction of Abu Omar from Milan in 2003.
The great American Italian restaurant has changed in style probably more than any other genre of restaurant over the past several decades. Even as recently as 50 years ago, the term "Italian restaurant" conjured images of red and white checkered tablecloths, carafes of middling chianti, and a red sauce-heavy menu with classics like chicken Parmigiana that were more Italian-American than authentic Italian. Then something interesting happened: people got bored, and a new breed of Italian restaurant came onto the scene, able to rival even the highest-end French dining rooms. From a neighborhood trattoria in Brooklyn to a high-end restaurant in San Francisco with a tasting menu focused on the bounty of Northern California, we rounded up the 20 best Italian restaurants in America.