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Entire Italian Village for Sale on eBay
If you ever wanted a little slice of Italy, here's your chance. An entire alpine village is up for sale on eBay. The auction for the town of Borgata Calsazio, just a few ski runs away from Turin, is real, with a "Buy it Now" price of a mere $333,057.
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Costa Concordia on final voyage to scrapyard
Italy's Costa Concordia cruise liner has begun its last voyage, as tug boats towed it from its wreck site off the Italian island of Giglio where it capsized two years ago, killing 32 people. The rusting liner, which has been floated in the biggest-ever salvage operation of a passenger ship, was being towed on Wednesday to the port of Genoa in northwest Italy, where it will be dismantled and scrapped.
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Italy falls back into recession
Italy's economy has fallen back into recession, latest official figures show, after contracting for two quarters in a row.
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Mount Etna's latest eruptive episode continues to rumble
Europe's most active volcano, Mount Etna, and has recently entered a new eruptive phase. Activity has been rumbling for the last three months, but last week it entered a new episode in a region on its south-east side. Over the last few days, the volcano, which stands tall over the city of Catania, has put on an impressive display of explosions and ash emissions, with molten lava soaring into the sky.
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Italy's Mogherini and Poland's Tusk get top EU jobs
EU leaders have appointed Italy's Federica Mogherini as EU foreign policy chief and Poland's Donald Tusk as European Council president. The announcement came in tweets from the current council president, Herman Van Rompuy, at an EU summit.
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Underground lab glimpses 'soul' of the Sun
A lab sited under 1.4 kilometres (4,500 feet) of rock has detected particles from the Sun that help to measure activity at the very heart of our star, scientists said Wednesday.
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Lasagna | Your Italian Recipes
This is my simple Italian Lasagna Recipe
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Banished from the mob: Italy’s mafia sons exiled in fight against crime
First Italy fought its mafia mobsters by confiscating their wealth. Now judges are taking away something even more precious: their sons. Riccardo Cordi, an 18-year-old scion of one of the country’s most notorious mob families, is a pioneer in a new strategy to fight the mafia by removing their sons from their homes and families.
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The Sicilians who can't escape the Mafia
For many, life in Sicily is played out against the backdrop of corruption. The Mafia, if not as pervasive as it once was, still exerts considerable influence over the island.
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Nurse 'killed 38 patients she found annoying'
A NURSE was arrested for killing as many as 38 patients because she found them or their relatives annoying, police said. Daniela Poggiali, a 42-year-old resident of the Italian town of Lugo, was taken into custody over the weekend and booked for the alleged slaying of 78-year-old patient Rosa Calderoni, who died from an injection of potassium.
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Italian police find 1.7bn-euro fraud
Italian police have uncovered a fraud which they say has cost Italian taxpayers €1.7bn (£1.3bn; $2.2bn). Two businessmen are accused of setting up the scheme, which used false invoices to bill the state for non-existent security, cleaning and other services.
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The Day UFOs Stopped Play
Sixty years ago a football match ground to a halt when unidentified flying objects were spotted above a stadium in Florence.
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Italian Lawmakers Plan Free Wi-Fi to Bridge Digital Gap with Europe
Italian lawmakers have put forward a proposal for free Wi-Fi in thousands of public places to bridge a gap with other European countries in broadband penetration, e-government and other digital services that is dragging on the economy.
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Italy plans to boost economy, tourism with free WiFi
Italy is a country known for delicious food and amazing sights, but not so much for decent broadband internet access. The nation's government recognizes this, and a group of lawmakers have proposed a $6.3 million project that would install free, public WiFi in across the country in effort to not only attract tourists, but also strengthen its economy in comparison with the rest of Europe.
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Ancient shipwreck discovered near Aeolian Islands
The divers descended 410 feet into dark Mediterranean waters off Italy, their lights revealing the skeleton of a ship that sank thousands of years ago when Rome was a world power. A sea-crusted anchor rested on a rock. The ship's cargo lay scattered amid piles of terra cotta jars, called amphora.
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Miguel CHEVALIER Magic Carpets 2014
Magic Carpets se déploient sur le sol de la cour intérieure octogonale de Castel del Monte, datant du XIIIe siècle. Magic Carpets revisite par le biais de l'art numérique, la tradition de la mosaïque très présente en Italie, qui préfigure le pixel. Des tableaux de méga mosaïques/pixels noirs et blancs instables glissent progressivement vers des spirales de couleurs vives et saturées qui tourbillonnent et exécutent de véritables chorégraphies sur la musique de Jacopo Baboni Schilingi.
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Geologists Who Didn't Predict an Earthquake Aren't Killers, Italian Court Rules
That it's even up for debate is absurd.
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Geologists Who Didn't Predict an Earthquake Aren't Killers, Italian Court Rules
Geologists who didn't warn a town about an impending earthquake are not murderers, an Italian appeals court ruled today. A 2012 decision that rocked the scientific world was overturned today by an appeals court, according to Italy's Repubblica newspapers and confirmed by other Italian outlets.
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Days of Mafia Mayhem Are Wracking Italy Once Again
Shocking reports of resurgent organized crime are horrifying Italy, from a covert tape of a secret initiation ceremony to the capture of a zoo’s worth of wild beasts.
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Recipe for baked cannelloni filled with spinach and ricotta.
Recipe for baked cannelloni pasta filled with spinach and ricotta.
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