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The 96-board Italian Clubs Championship final was played over the last four days of September in Salsomaggiore.For Associato Allegra, Norberto Bocchi, Agustin Madala and Antonio Sementa played throughout. Sementa partnered Guido Ferraro for one set and Giorgio Duboin for the other five.
Italy’s anti-austerity movement is polling third in Sicilian regional elections that were marked by a low turnout and could serve as a barometer for the national vote due no later than May.
I’m spending a week in Frascati, the small town outside Rome which you might know, if you have heard of it at all, as the source of the golden-coloured, broad-flavoured white wine which fills the Italian capital’s carafes. In truth the wine, for serious wine buffs at least, is nothing to write home about: it lacks a sharply defined taste profile, just a hint of almonds, something honeyed, though the wine is dry.
CENTO, ITALY — The devastating 2009 earthquake in the central city of L’Aquila was bizarrely back in the news this past week when six scientists and a bureaucrat were sentenced to six years in prison for failing to warn of what even insurance companies call an “act of God.”
MILAN -- An Italian court on Friday convicted former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of tax evasion and sentenced him to four years in prison.
But the verdict did not mean that Berlusconi will go to prison anytime soon.
A 70-year-old Italian man is on pace to set a world record for long-distance running over a sustained period of time. Battista Marchesi, known locally as Tista, will have run for 239 straight days, covering 19,100 kilometers with an average of 80 kilometers per day, if he continues his pace through Sunday.
Giovanni Rana, a 50-year old Italian pasta company, will open its first restaurant on Monday, a combination pasta store and dining room in the Chelsea Market, with its own entrance on Ninth Avenue. The company, headquartered near Verona in Northern Italy, specializes in filled pastas, made with extra thin wrappers so the fillings almost show through the gossamer dough. That pinkish color you see in the ravioli is lobster.
Italy's annual food-tasting show, Salone del Gusto, joining the sixth world conference of the SlowFood movement, opens today at the Lingotto expo halls in Turin. The show's 1000 exhibitors, 11 authors and 50 chefs from 100 countries will lead the tastings of 1200 wines, 19 master cooking classes, and 20 family-oriented activites as well as 128 tasting labs.
The Italian Army — as it readies its new Aster missile-based air defense capability — says it is looking to give the system a role in knocking out tactical ballistic missiles as well as aircraft. Known as the Surface-to-Air Missile Platform/Terrain (SAMP/T), the MBDA-built system should reach initial operating capability with the Italian Army’s 4th Air Defense Regiment by the end of this year and full operating capability by the end of 2013.
Italian newspaper publisher Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso gave a grim outlook on Wednesday as its nine-month net profit fell 36 percent, dragged by an economic downturn and internet competition. Net profit at the group controlled by prominent Italian businessman Carlo De Benedetti was 26.4 million euros ($34.2 million) in the first nine months.