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BOSTON — Michael Bradley and Alessandro Florenzi scored second-half goals, lifting Italy’s Roma to a 2-1 victory over Liverpool in an exhibition game at Fenway Park on Wednesday night.
He already has the nickname and the athletic prowess. Mario Balotelli, Italy’s star striker, said in a video interview this week in London that if he wasn’t a soccer player, he’d be a mixed martial arts fighter, according to the Huffington Post.
Life can be speedy in Southern Italy if you're in the back of a car driven by a zealous Italian. But happily, this is the fastest moving part of my holiday to the prettiest part of Italy's heel. Puglia produces 40 per cent of the country's olive oil, tonnes of pasta and gallons of wine, and is regarded as Italy's garden.
Much attention has been paid to Mona Lisa's smile throughout the years, but this week her skeleton is winding up in the spotlight. Italian archaeologists announced they found the skeleton of Lisa Gherardini, believed to be the model for Leonardo's masterpiece, which currently hangs in The Louvre in Paris.
An 11-year-old boy boarded a plane from Manchester to Rome on his own without a passport, tickets or boarding pass. He mingled with families to get through checks in Terminal 1 on Tuesday. He was found mid-air on the Jet2 plane after passengers became suspicious.
An 11-year-old boy boarded a plane from Manchester to Rome on his own without a passport, tickets or boarding pass. He mingled with families to get through checks in Terminal 1 on Tuesday. He was found mid-air on the Jet2 plane after passengers became suspicious.
Sicily will delay paying salaries to regional parliamentarians and postpone payouts to pensioners until the southern region, a focus of Italy's financial crisis, receives money promised by central government in Rome.
Whenever crooner Tony Bennett returns to the land of his roots, he feels overwhelmed. "When I sing in Rome or anywhere in Italy, I get a complex," he said after performing for a sold-out hall at Rome's Parco della Musica.
Pope Benedict XVI blessed the Olympics starting in London this week in his traditional Sunday address and said he hoped the spirit of the Games would encourage peace in the world.
It is always dangerous to claim a victory against Angela Merkel. After the last eurozone summit, Mario Monti and Mariano Rajoy emerged triumphalist. The agreement and Italy’s football victory over Germany were “a double satisfaction”, the Italian prime minister crowed.