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ANSA. A kiss between Pope Benedict XVI and Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayeb, the imam who heads Cairo's Al-Azhar Mosque, features in a global anti-hate campaign launched by the Italian fashion giant, Benetton. (Read the article)
THE TELEGRAPH. Mamma mia! According to my tape recorder, just six minutes and 52 seconds have elapsed since I met the tenor Andrea Bocelli and he has just announced that he “haf a beeg reeespect for sex.” A big respect for sex? “Yes, a beeg reeespect for sex.” (Read the article by Bryony Gordon)
MINYANVILLE. Frankly, we’re not too worried for just-departed Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. And we don’t mean that in a he's-a-hideously-corrupt-politican-who-deserves-his-comeuppance kind of way. Before becoming ruler of the land of pizza, pasta, and Prada, Berlusconi enjoyed a diverse career path. (Read the article by Sterling Wong)
ANSA. Italian premier-designate Mario Monti on Monday wound up the first day of talks with political parties aimed at securing a majority behind reforms to ease Italy's financial emergency. "May politicians take the chance to turn a crisis into an opportunity (for reform)," he told reporters. (Read the article)
ANSA. Italy's political parties should think about "the good of the country" as they discuss the formation of an emergency government, the head of the country's largest employer group. Emma Marcegaglia, the President of Confindustria, said: "The parties should above all think about the good of the country, and soften the tone." (Read the article)
THE EPOCH TIMES. Imagine if New York City became like Venice, where people paddled down Fifth Avenue in canoes and buzzed around town in motorboats. While the image seems odd, it may become a reality if sea-water levels continue to rise. (Read the article by Yi Yang)
CINEMA BLEND. Giuseppe Capotondi’s Italian thriller The Double Hour, which played the 2009 Venice and Toronto International film festivals, starred Filippo Timi as an ex-cop who meets a beauty (Ksenia Rappoport) during a speed-dating session. (Read the article)
ANSA. United States President Barack Obama has said that he sees big differences between the economic crises facing Italy and Greece. ''Italy isn't Greece,'' Obama told reporters at the White House in reponse to a question by an ANSA journalist. (Read the article)
ANSA. Legendary Italian designer Giorgio Armani opened a luxury hotel in the centre of Milan where he founded his fashion empire.Stars including Jessica Alba and Isabelle Huppert attended a cocktail party to launch the new Armani Hotel Milano which is the second hotel in the Armani hotel and resort portfolio. (Read the article)
THE CHICAGO SUN TIMES. A smirking horned devil exists in the frescoed clouds of a Giotto work in the famed Assisi basilica, an Italian art historian said Tuesday — a tantalizing detail that apparently went unnoticed by scholars for centuries. (Read the article)