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 The 12th annual Tribeca Film Festival, co-founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, and presented by founding sponsor American Express, announced the winners of its competition categories tonight at a ceremony hosted at the Conrad New York in New York City. The Festival runs through April 28, 2013. 

 Liza with Z arrived onto the Tribeca Film Festival scene as she walked the red carpet for the new documentary Mistaken for Strangers Thursday night looking as graceful as ever. 

As children sang and Italian President Giorgio Napolitano spoke of civic virtues, some Italian legislators used Liberation Day ceremonies as a platform for politics.

Financial markets, which balance judgments from some of the world's most highly paid and best-informed analysts, are often uncannily right in anticipating unpredictable events, ranging from economic booms and busts to elections and terrorist attacks. 

Prime Minister-designate Enrico Letta began tricky negotiations on Thursday to form Italy's new government and end a nearly two-month-old stalemate in the euro zone's third-largest economy.

 Milan medical researchers have identified a protein that guides the process of repairing errors during DNA replication, creating new hope for future treatment of cancer and other illnesses stemming from genetic dysfunction. 

 Amanda Knox says that she hopes the family of her murdered roommate will read her memoir.
Meredith Kercher's father "thinks that I am the killer of his daughter and this is painful," Knox said in an interview with People magazine shortly after the publication her book about her experiences. 

 The 8th edition of the annual American Cancer Society’s “Taste of Hope” fundraiser in New York is again supported by Italy’s finest wines on May 2nd. Vinitaly International renews its commitment to the important cause of the American Cancer Society (ACS), whilst realizing one of New York’s top charity events this year at 82 Mercer (82, Mercer Street). 

 With taquerías and other conspicuously non-Italian businesses proliferating in South Philadelphia's Italian Market, should the neighborhood be renamed for the sake of anthropological accuracy? The answer is the same whether you're a Sicilian or a Sinaloan: No. 

 The head of pharmacology at Milan's state university says a weekend break-in by animal rights activists who freed about 100 laboratory animals has cost years of research and hundreds of thousands of euros (dollars) in damage.

 

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