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Last night at the 84th Academy Awards ceremony, Dante Ferretti and Francesca Loschiavo won the Oscar for Art Direction for Hugo by Martin Scorsese. Th…
Milan women's fashion week kicked off last Wednesday and will run until the 28th of February. The event includes 72 catwalks and 137 collections showc…
It certainly looks like some Italians think "stripping" seems a good way to boost business in these times of economic hardship. Few weeks ago we talke…
On Tuesday, Monti's government launched "Operation Transparency" posting the Italian ministers' salaries and assets online in an effort to boost trans…
Alitalia has recently signed a special deal with Lottomatica, one of the leading game market players. Starting from the 1st of March 2012, Alitalia fl…
Yesterday, Italian Nobel Prize winner for Medicine Renato Dulbecco ied at the age of 98.He was born in Catanzaro, in Calabria, and studied medicine at…
words by Mette Vaabengaard Italian film won the Golden Bear for best film at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. Paolo and Vittorio Ta…
Three women on the podium of the 62nd edition of Sanremo Music Festival: Emma, Arisa and Noemi. Emma Marrone, who won the Italian talent show Amici in…
Last night Sanremo Music Festival hosted a special evening dedicated to “gli Italiani nel mondo”, the achievements of Italians around the world, with…
According to the New York Times, Amanda Knox has sold the rights for a memoir on her four-year battle with Italian justice for the 2007 murder of flat…
Yesterday, The Ideal City, the Italian 15th century masterpiece, by an unknown artist, and symbol of the Renaissance, arrived at the European parliam…
Prosecutors ask for Mr Berlusconi to be sentenced to five-year jail term.Italian prosecutors asked for former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi…
On the 7th of March 2012, Rosenblatt Recitals in London will welcome a performance by acclaimed Italian tenor Giuseppe Filianoti. Born in Reggio Calab…
Tonight, Gianni Morandi will host the opening night of Sanremo Musica Festival 2012 with Ivana Mrazova, a Czech fashion model, and Italian actor/direc…
It does not come as a surprise that the city of Verona, home to Shakespearean lovers Rome and Juliet, was chosen as one of the top 10 places to pop th…
Last week US magazine Time featured Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti on its cover with the headline, 'Can this Man Save Europe?', referring to him a…
Italian attorney Nick Metta advises on key estate planning actions for Italian property investors in light of current Italian economic situation. Af…
Yesterday Mount Etna, in Sicily, spat out lava and produced a dense ash plume that extended further afield, stopping flights at Catania's Fontanarossa…
On the 1st of April 2006 we published an April Fool story entitled "Tourists in Pisa surprised to find tower straightened". Back then, the idea that p…
Early this month, a bizarre anti-economic crisis initiative from a Tuscan restaurateur attracted customers ready to strip for a meal on the house.Ales…