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ANSA. Italian winemakers' continue to innovate and are ever-more focused on environmental issues, Environment Minister Corrado Clini said on Tuesday at Verona's Vinitaly, the world's largest wine expo.
Italy's top appeals court has ordered a separated husband to keep paying towards the upkeep of his unemployed 41-year-old daughter.
A former big wheel in the Sicilian health system serving 15 years for ties to the Mafia has been released to house arrest because he is allergic to the high-bean diet in his maximum-security jail.
GIGLIO, Italy — Search crews found five more bodies in the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, which struck a reef off an Italian island in January, officials said Thursday.The discovery raises to 30 the number of bodies found. Two people remain missing and are presumed dead.
Tonino Guerra, a prolific Italian screenwriter and poet whose roster of film collaborators, including Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Andrei Tarkovsky and Theo Angelopoulos, amounted to a who’s who of European cinema’s golden age, died on Wednesday at his home in Santarcangelo di Romagna, in northern Italy near the Adriatic coast. He was 92.
In central Milan, overlooked by its 13th century cathedral, Gaia Mancini, 17, emerges from Benetton’s flagship store. But she wasn’t shopping for herself – she was taking a look around because it appealed to her shopping companion, her mother.
There must be times when Elsa Fornero feels she has the world's worst job.When the 63-year-old stepped out to buy a new pair of shoes last weekend, she was accompanied by no fewer than 10 police officers: six plainclothes bodyguards and another four to close off the pedestrian precinct in Turin where she went shopping. There are anti-mafia prosecutors who get less protection.
Larry Hinnes' quest to find the green olives he enjoyed at a restaurant years ago recently led him to Mt. Carmel Gourmet Food, a shop in the Arthur Avenue Retail Market. The paralegal from Pelham Bay Park told the man behind the counter, Micheal Navarra, that the olives he wanted were from Italy. "They're all from Italy," Navarra said.
Assunta Linza, a bright-eyed 33-year-old with a college degree in psychology, has been unemployed since June, after losing a temporary job as a call-center operator. Her father, who is 60 and has a fifth-grade education, took early retirement with full benefits at age 42 from a job as a workman at the Italian state railway company.
MTV says it's bringing "Jersey Shore" back for a sixth season, with expectant mom Snooki as part of the action.MTV said Monday that production will begin this summer in Seaside Heights, N.J., and all of "America's favorite housemates" will return.