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Paolo Bulletti has a dream. The Italian architect wants to transport a house built by the distinguished U.S. architect Frank Lloyd Wright from its current site in New Jersey to the hills of Fiesole, near Florence.
Lines were long and Italian in the air at the Paris screening of a controversial new documentary last week after its Rome premiere was canceled, its subject deemed "too political" ahead of elections this Sunday.
ROME — The police in Singapore said Thursday that the Asian man thought to be at the center of a global soccer match-fixing network was now cooperating with them, even as the Italian police said they had made an important breakthrough, detaining a key suspect.
Political leaders were holding their final rallies before a campaigning ban ahead of voting on Sunday and Monday, and analysts said the result was too close to call."This vote is not at all certain. One percentage point either way could lead to chaos or a clear winner," said one pollster who asked not to be named because of a two-week ban on opinion surveys.
A study conducted on the graffiti found on Pompeii’s walls reveals it was an early form of political campaigning and social networking. The Ancient Roman city was covered in ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79AD. Much of the graffiti on the ancient city’s walls is preserved in remarkable detail.
Authorities are currently investigating whether a plane wreck found on a beach on the island of Curaçao could be that of the missing plane carrying Vittorio Missoni which disappeared on January 4, reports Reuters.
Paolo Bulletti has a dream. The Italian architect wants to transport a house built by the distinguished U.S. architect Frank Lloyd Wright from its current site in New Jersey to the hills of Fiesole, near Florence.
San Giovanni in Persiceto, a northern Italian town just 14 miles from Bologna in the wealthy industrial region of Emilia Romagna, never used to have many problems. When Lorenzo Sarti started working in social services there 20 years ago, he says the community was comfortably off and its welfare system easily able to take care of those who were in need.
I had a little chat with Mr. Ryan J. Davis, who runs social media for Blue State Digital, best known for its role in Obama's 2008 campaign. Although many of the things that Ryan and I discussed were off the record and/or irrelevant (including his passion for Broadway musicals and me singing some Spring Awakening after a couple of gin and tonics), he was a brilliant speaker at Milan's Social Media Week, where he presented the "Four 2012" campaign.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel does not want the center-left Democratic Party (PD) to win Italy's national election, outgoing Italian Prime Minister and centrist leader Mario Monti said on Wednesday.