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One is a famous Italian food brand that has been in the same family for four generations. The other is one of the biggest burger chains in the world. They may, as one Italian newspaper remarked on Thursday, be seen by purists as "the devil and holy water": but Mc Donald's and the Parma-based pasta maker Barilla have now joined forces to bring a touch of the Mediterranean to a Big Mac and fries.
Italy is famed for fashion, food and, of course, history.In fact, Italy has the highest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites of any country in the world.As other social needs have taken priority in economically turbulent times, however, the country's budget for maintaining and restoring some of its greatest tourist attractions has been drastically reduced. While the Italian State Tourist Board said it couldn't supply statistics,various reports state that as much as a third of culture budgets (€1.42 billion/$1.83 billion) have been cut over the past three years.
“I want that car,” said former Congresswoman Connie Morella, pointing to a white 2013 SRT Viper parked in the National Building Museum last night.“It’s available,” replied Sergio Marchionne, chief executive officer of Fiat Spa (F) and Chrysler Group LLC. “For a price.”
Some 600 patients are preparing to appeal in Italian courts for stem-cell treatments following the approval of a law on Wednesday legalizing its therapy, research and permitting those who have begun stem-cell treatments to continue them.
A popular Catholic priest who founded a drug-rehabilitation centre, promoted LGBT rights, and once called for a gay pope, died Wednesday afternoon in Genoa, his religious community announced. Don Andrea Gallo, 84, was known as the "street priest" for his community work, including founding Genoa's San Benedetto drug-rehab community.
The helmer is readying an untitled film that will chronicle an Italian-American family and span from the 1930s to the 1960s.
"The New Brooklyn is now pursuing the final frontier of influence, City Hall, in the person of a 6-foot-5 Italian-American who drinks organic milk, recycles obsessively and likes to call people 'brother.'" Michael Barbaro presents his portrait of mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio, 52, the city’s public advocate and the husband of an African-American writer.
No more stuffing your suitcases with delicacies bought in Italy, hoping the sniffer dogs at JFK or other American airports won't detect the banned-in-the-USA foodstuffs inside your luggage.In the U.S., they're called cured meats, the French say charcuterie and in Italy, the word for cured-pork products is salumi.
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's 2010 relationship with Moroccan Karima El Mahroug, nicknamed Ruby Rubacuori (Italian for Heart Stealer),' has led to underage prostitution charges for the Italian leader, who as Europe's most famous 'creepy old man,' is no stranger to scandal.
This is turning out to be a tricky Cannes competition for French film-makers. François Ozon's Jeune et Jolie was interestingly made, but Arnaud Desplechin's Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian was a baffling, cumbersome bore.