Italy
Cannes Film Festival: Did Berlusconi Turn Italy Into a Reality Show?
May 19, 2012
Today in unexpected Cannes headline news: a convicted felon turns in one of the best performances at the festival thus far .
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May 19, 2012
In this Dec. 6, 2009 file photo, writer Dan Brown, author of “The Da Vinci Code,” waves as he appears on the Italian State RAI TV program “Che Tempo che Fa”, in Milan, Italy.
A caffeinated tour through Italy’s coffee cultur…
May 19, 2012
For the espresso obsessed , visiting Italy is like journeying to Makkah: Caffeine-loving crusaders seek answers by crossing time, language and cultural barriers to visit the drink’s motherland.
Italy To Auction Off Historic Lighthouses Amid Recession, Debt Crisis
May 18, 2012
In a bid to raise much-needed funds for its struggling economy, the Italian government is auctioning off more than a dozen picturesque lighthouses off the coast of Sardinia.
Cash-strapped G8 looks to private sector in hunger fight
May 18, 2012
Buffeted by the euro zone crisis and distracted by political problems at home, the leaders of the world’s industrial powers are turning to the private sector to help fight hunger and malnutrition for up to a billion people beset by shortages, droughts and rising food prices.
Brain Drain: Businesses and Brightest Minds Flee Italy
May 18, 2012
Courtesy of Google Translate, this time from Italy, please consider From the North-East and abroad, fleeing already 720 companies Farewell, ungrateful Italy.
MERENDINE To Release ‘New World Disorder’ Next Month
May 18, 2012
Italian thrashers MERENDINE have inked a deal with Germany’s Metalville Records .
Sardinian Town Bows to Italy’s ‘Pink-Street’ Project
May 18, 2012
Street names in Italy are still being counted, but one village isn’t waiting to add more women to their signs, as an advocacy group here began urging earlier this year.
Today in History – Sandro Botticelli died in Florence, Italy
May 18, 2012
On May 17, 1937, Teddy Hill and His Orchestra recorded “King Porter Stomp” for RCA Victor’s Bluebird label in New York; making his recording debut was trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie.
Computing experts unveil superefficient “inexact” chip
May 18, 2012
In terms of speed, energy consumption and size, inexact computer chips like this prototype, are about 15 times more efficient than today’s microchips.
