The Sopranos star James Gandolfini has died. The 51-year-old actor reportedly died of a heart attack in Italy
James Gandolfini dies, aged 51
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Timberlake raves about marriage
Justin Timberlake thinks marrying Jessica Biel was “one really good decision”. The superstar couple married in Italy last October
Another Paper, Danish Weekly, To Run Kate Middleton Topless Photos
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, The top editor of a Danish celebrity weekly says his magazine will hit the streets this week with the topless photos of Britain’s likely future queen. Show Readers What The Photo’s Are About Kim Henningsen, editor in chief of Se & Hoer, says the pictures of Prince William’s wife Kate will […]
Olympic Flame Extinguished – While the Torch Was Being Carried on a White Water Rafting Boat
It’s quite remarkable, in hindsight, to think no one predicted the outcome of this stunt. As the Olympic torch splashed through the canoe slalom venue in Hertfordshire today on board a raft as part of its journey around the country, spraying water splashed out the famed Eternal Flame. Day 50 did not go smoothly for […]
Italy: Miracolo Marzotto
Towering above the quaint tile roofs of Valdagno.
Hungry For Power, Sicily’s Mafia Tries to Go Green
Since the time of Phoenician sailors and Greek settlers, Sicily’s Most coveted resources have been the sun and the wind.
African Immigrants in Italy: Slave Labor for the Mafia
Xenophobes in homogenous European countries often complain that immigrants will erase their most precious cultural norms. The race riots in southern Italy last weekend may be one indicator that change is inevitable, as African immigrants who don’t live by the country’s infamous omert code of silence violently protested against the powerful Mafia clans that control their lives, says Roberto Saviano, author of Gomorrah, an anti-Mob book that earned him both critical praise and a 24-hour police guard.
ITALY: The Third Choice
For days beforehand, news stories went round the world direly reporting that nothing less than freedom itself was at stake in Sicily. And as the time came for Sicilians to elect a new regional assembly, Christian Democratic orators by the Fiat-ful raced about the island tirelessly echoing the warning of Italy's Premier Antonio Segni: “We must be on our guard if we are not to awaken in the bear hug of Communism.” Last week, in hundreds of arid mountain villages and scores of swarming coastal towns, the citizens of semiautonomous Sicily quietly went to the polls and made their much-ballyhooed choice.
Italy: Making Divorce Possible
Only eight major nations in the world, all Catholic, do not allow divorce.
Behind the Migrant Row, Europe Keeps Shifting to the Far Right
When France temporarily blocked trains from Italy headed to French coastal destinations over the weekend, the move marked a dramatic escalation in the two countries’ spat over how to handle migrants fleeing unrest in North Africa — and raised legal questions about fundamental travel accords long embraced many European Union member states.