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Sir, Biagio Bossone, Marco Cattaneo, Massimo Costa and Stefano Sylos Labini (Letters, March 16) advocate “fiscal money” as transferable and negotiable bearer bonds. They say these bonds will be used as payment instruments in parallel with the euro. I have some comments about this.

At least once a week, someone in our household puts a small Dutch oven on the stove and covers the bottom with a heap of lentils. We go through this exercise so often that the steps — simmering aromatics and oil in a simple broth, adding pasta to cook until it just yields to the teeth — have become methodical, even meditative. 

Congolese opposition leader Moise Katumbi held Italian citizenship from October 2000 until January 2017, the Italian town where he was a resident said on Wednesday, jeopardizing his hopes of contesting a presidential election later this year.

Billionaire Vincent Bollore seems to have become the odd man out in Italian television.

As talk of a populist alliance between the anti-establishment Five Star Movement and the far-right League to break Italy’s post-electoral impasse picked up last weekend, the editor of a small newspaper tried to nip it right in the bud. 

Ferruccio Pilenga cannot imagine his life without his dog, Reef, an agile Newfoundland that he trained as a water rescue dog.

Keanu Reeves became an A-lister in the 1990s, and he's been rocking about the same red carpet fit ever since. His go-to—dark suit, jeans, and lace-up shoes—have served him well over the years, and helped him carve out a unique and easygoing everyman style. He's become a fashion icon without ever being considered a true "fashion icon"—known as stylish by the real heads and ignored (to their peril) by everyone else. However, according to Jeanne Yang, the stylist who's been dressing Reeves since 1999 for his The Matrixpress tour, he's actually extremely well-versed in the fine art of Italian tailoring.

Italy summoned the French ambassador for consultations Saturday after armed French border patrol agents used an Italian train station to force a Nigerian train passenger provide a urine sample for a drug test.

Rudolf Schonegger, 55, given suspended 26-week sentence for theft of signed copy worth £1,675

Italian Easter pies by any other name still taste wonderfully salty and savory. And that's a good thing, because the Italian quiche goes by many names.

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