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Processed food packed with salt, fat and sugar has been making incursions into the traditional diets of countries around the world. Even Italy isn't immune to the reach of junk food. But hard economic times are spurring Italians to rediscover home cooking, and especially bread making.
Jennifer Aniston wants to “move to Italy, eat pasta and get fat”.The 44-year-old actress insisted she will never give up her acting career but when 'Good Morning America' correspondent Nick Watt joked he might want "to quit TV, grow a beard and gain 200 pounds,” Jennifer agreed.
The American exchange student jailed in Italy for four years before being acquitted in 2011 says in a new interview the whole experience has left her "paralysed" with anxiety at times.
Former Prime Minister Romano Prodi failed to win election as Italy's new president on Friday after his nomination by the center-left bloc enraged Silvio Berlusconi and increased the chances of a snap election in the summer.
The revelation that the prime suspects in the Boston Marathon attack are a pair of Chechen brothers who emigrated to the U.S. has put a spotlight back on a region that has been a source of violence in Russia ever since the Kremlin crushed a separatist insurgency there.
Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino is leading the Italian charge at Cannes this spring, making his fifth trip to the international film festival with his movie La Grande Bellezza (The Great Beauty), organizers announced Thursday.
Fantasies of a roller coaster ride in the middle of a lush Sicilian olive grove or a spin down the 60-meter-high 'Etnaland Tower' with a breathtaking view of the real-life volcano are coming true this Saturday, April 20, when the largest amusement park in southern Italy will open in Belpasso, just a few kilometres away from Catania.
The porn star Rocco Siffredi, actor Sophia Loren and the Manchester City manager, Roberto Mancini, all received a vote in Italy's presidential election on Thursday night, as black humour and blank votes dominated the second ballot of a contest that plunged the beleaguered centre-left into crisis.
While imprisoned in Italy for four years in the murder of her roommate, Amanda Knox fended off sexual harassment from guards and an overture from a cellmate. On the night of the killing, she was smoking marijuana and watching a movie with her Italian boyfriend. And those infamous cartwheels that Ms. Knox reportedly performed in the police station never happened.
The time for talk about the restoration of the Colosseum is over, Rome's mayor said Wednesday.