Sophia Loren, who grew up in the Neapolitan resort of Pozzuoli and was once imprisoned for evading taxes has appealed to people living in Campania to redouble their efforts to resolve the rubbish crisis. Payment of taxes would of course help.Italian soldiers of the Folgore brigade based in Livorno have a new martial arts instructor: a 77 yer old Japanese grandmother who is 5 ft tall. Useful preparation for an invasion of Japan.
A pregnant woman in Foggia, taken to the labour ward in a hospital which was not her local one, refused to give birth unless there was a member of the carabinieri present. After the arrival of the officer she gave birth to a baby girl, which is likely to have a lantern jaw and a moustache.
The average Italian takes one and a half pills a day (525 doses a year), 3% up on last year
The financial crisis has hit the restaurant trade, with a quarter of Italians saying they have only been out to eat once a month.
Italians spend less than 1% of household income on alcohol, compared to an EU average of 1.2%. The UK was on 1.4% whilst the highest was Ireland at 4.1%. Italians drink an average of 46 litres of wine a year, compared to 52 for France and only 9 for America.
The car is the preferred means of transport for 90% of Italians with most citing freedom of movement as the reason. But 6.4% of Italians said they chose to use their cars out of a passion for them while 2.9% considered driving to be ''pleasurable mania'', an apt description of behaviour on Italian roads.
The opening act of Bologna’s heavy metal festival will be Fratello Metallo, led by a 62 year old Capuchin friar, Brother Cesare Bonizzi, who performs in traditional habit. Bonizzi, who has released 15 albums in a long heavy metal career, said ''Heavy metal has given me the opportunity to meet a world of people of a unique beauty and tenderness”
The new head of Alitalia, Aristide Police, said he would have a plan by the end of next month.
The Vatican daily newspaper l'Osservatore Romano is preparing its first edition in Malayalam, the language spoken in Kerala, Southern India, where there are 6 million Catholics.
The average Italian takes one and a half pills a day (525 doses a year), 3% up on last year
The financial crisis has hit the restaurant trade, with a quarter of Italians saying they have only been out to eat once a month.
Italians spend less than 1% of household income on alcohol, compared to an EU average of 1.2%. The UK was on 1.4% whilst the highest was Ireland at 4.1%. Italians drink an average of 46 litres of wine a year, compared to 52 for France and only 9 for America.
The car is the preferred means of transport for 90% of Italians with most citing freedom of movement as the reason. But 6.4% of Italians said they chose to use their cars out of a passion for them while 2.9% considered driving to be ''pleasurable mania'', an apt description of behaviour on Italian roads.
The opening act of Bologna’s heavy metal festival will be Fratello Metallo, led by a 62 year old Capuchin friar, Brother Cesare Bonizzi, who performs in traditional habit. Bonizzi, who has released 15 albums in a long heavy metal career, said ''Heavy metal has given me the opportunity to meet a world of people of a unique beauty and tenderness”
The new head of Alitalia, Aristide Police, said he would have a plan by the end of next month.
The Vatican daily newspaper l'Osservatore Romano is preparing its first edition in Malayalam, the language spoken in Kerala, Southern India, where there are 6 million Catholics.
The head of inspection services at Sicily's Regional Department for the Family and Social Policies has had his appeal refused against a conviction for violently kissing a colleague who refused his sexual advances.
The rate of suicides and murders committed by family members in Italy increases by 20% in the heat of the summer.
A Uruguayan prostitute working in Italy is refusing to pay 90,000 euros of taxes on her suspected earnings on the grounds that she did not receive protection from the police, who could only intervene if blood was spilled.
A cyclist in Verona was fined 148 euros for using a cellphone while riding his bike.
Pope Benedict XVI's clothing has come under scrutiny: His Holiness has been spotted wearing trendy sunglasses, a velvet cap with ermine trim and fashionable slip on shoes, all in cardinal red. L’Osservatore Romano angrily denied that Christ’s Vicar on Earth shopped at Prada; the shoes were from Adriano Stefanelli, who has also supplied calfskin versions for winter wear and a nappa leather pair for hot Rome summers.
The rate of suicides and murders committed by family members in Italy increases by 20% in the heat of the summer.
A Uruguayan prostitute working in Italy is refusing to pay 90,000 euros of taxes on her suspected earnings on the grounds that she did not receive protection from the police, who could only intervene if blood was spilled.
A cyclist in Verona was fined 148 euros for using a cellphone while riding his bike.
Pope Benedict XVI's clothing has come under scrutiny: His Holiness has been spotted wearing trendy sunglasses, a velvet cap with ermine trim and fashionable slip on shoes, all in cardinal red. L’Osservatore Romano angrily denied that Christ’s Vicar on Earth shopped at Prada; the shoes were from Adriano Stefanelli, who has also supplied calfskin versions for winter wear and a nappa leather pair for hot Rome summers.
The European Space Agency has received 927 applications from Italian would-be astronauts, slightly more than Britain but less than half the French total. The average age of the astronaut corps is currently over 50.
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