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ROCCA DI CAMBIO, Italy — Paolo Tiralongo of Italy won the seventh stage of the Giro d’Italia on Saturday, while Ryder Hesjedal replaced Adriano Malori as the overall leader to become the first Canadian to wear the pink jersey.
I've been thinking lately about Giuseppe Rossi, and about the twists and turns that a sports career can take, even for the most promising athletes. If you're a U.S. soccer fan, you know plenty about Rossi, the Italian-American New Jersey native who chose to play for Italy over the U.S. and became a budding star for the Azzurri and Spain's Villarreal (where he scored 32 goals in all competitions in 2010-11).
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti sought to reaffirm the independence of his technocratic government on Friday after poor results in local elections prompted the parties that back him in parliament to demand more control over policy.
Amanda Knox's slander trial in Italy has been postponed until next year because the judge was busy with another trial.
Knox faces a charge of slander in Perugia for publicly accusing police of physically and verbally abusing her during questioning after the 2007 slaying of her British roommate. A court on Thursday suspended the case until Feb. 5.
The word birrificio may not yet quite roll off the tongue.But if Philadelphians continue to plunge into the exotic new beers that have recently begun appearing here from Tuscany, Piedmont, and Emiglia-Romagna, brewed with everything from chestnuts to barbera grapes, chinotto peel and myrrh, the Italian word for brewery should become a familiar one, indeed.
This thesis traces the development of Italian home cooking from within the homes of Italian immigrants in New York City, to its acceptance in American homes, and finally its popularization by the prepared food and restaurant industries. In time, Italian food would go from relative obscurity to become the first ethnic cuisine largely adopted and prepared in American homes.
POLIGNANO A MARE, Italy—With sunglasses and spike heels, makeup artists and wardrobe experts, the American soap opera "The Bold and the Beautiful" has landed in Italy.
The cast and production team are in Puglia -- the heel of Italy's famous boot -- for a week of filming in hopes of boosting their show at home and nurturing their Italian fans.
FLORENCE, Italy—Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti said Europe should invest in public projects like cross-border electricity grids to trigger growth, offering this as a middle path between U.S.-style fiscal stimulus and the more Germanic preference for budgetary rigor.
ROME -- An American faces possible animal cruelty charges for abandoning 15 cats at an Italian airport Tuesday because they weren't allowed on board.The 44-year-old tried to check into a Lufthansa flight from Rome to New York with 19 animals, ANSA reported.
At a party he hosted when he was prime minister,Silvio Berlusconi, asked young women to simulate oral sex with a Greek statue, a witness said Monday at a trial where he is accused of paying for sex with an underage prostitute. The witness, Chiara Danese, a 20-year-old beauty contest winner, had tears in her eyes as she told a Milan court that Mr. Berlusconi asked the women to play sex games with a nude statue of the ancient fertility god Priapus.