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In Awake (Sky Atlantic), the latest head-scratchingly cryptic drama to emigrate here from the United States, homicide detective Michael Britten (Jason Isaacs) spends half his life solving murders in a clichéd police procedural. In the other half, he is asleep, dreaming about solving murders in a clichéd police procedural. The challenge for Britten – and by extension [...]
In his quest to turn the Italian people into good fascists, Mussolini would often urge them to become less charming – a transformation, of course, that never took place. Take Francesco da Mosto, not only the most Italian man on British television, but very possibly the most Italian man in the history of the world. [...]
Acerra, in southern Italy, has long suffered abnormally high rates of cancer, apparently linked to the illegal waste dumps that dot the surrounding countryside, and something of their toxic effect has seeped into political life as well. Campaigning for local elections on Sunday and Monday has been marked by a series of incidents that have highlighted [...]
Showgirls dressed as nuns performed a pole-dancing striptease for former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi at a ‘bunga bunga’ party at his luxury villa at Arcore, a Milan court heard on Monday. Giving evidence one of the guests, Imane Fadil, 27, said former TV showgirl Nicole Minetti, 28, and another guest Barbara Fagioli, 26, performed a [...]
Officials investigating the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise liner on Tuesday identified the bodies of five people including an Italian drummer who gave up his place on a lifeboat to a child. Thirty-year-old Giuseppe Girolamo who played in a band on the vessel was last seen on the ship’s bridge as it keeled over [...]
A businessman linked to a sex scandal involving former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, was seeking 5 million euros (£4 million) to buy his silence, according to prosecutors. Valter Lavitola, 45, was arrested in Italy on Monday and is facing several charges related to fraud, money laundering and offering bribes to the president of Panama [...]
Less than two years after the opening of Maxxi, Italy’s national museum of contemporary art, the Italian Culture Ministry last Friday initiated procedures to replace the board of directors of the foundation that manages the museum with a government-appointed administrator. The decision was taken, according a terse statement issued by the ministry, after the board failed [...]
Italy underwent a boom in renewable energy in 2011, setting up over 400,000 solar panels and other green-energy sources in almost every city in the country, Italian environmental advocacy group Legambiente said Wednesday. “The diffusion of renewable sources is changing the energy landscape in our country with a speed and performance unheard of just a [...]
A gala dinner was held for 60 guests on Tuesday at the Cafe’ Mollien del Louvre by the Ferragamo fashion house, the exclusive sponsors of the restoration of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Virgin and Child with St Anne, in celebration of the upcoming exhibition opening. A viewing of the restored painting was presented by the [...]
Italy on Wednesday seized more than 1.1 billion euros ($1.5 billion) of assets controlled by the Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi’s family including stakes in top companies, land and a Harley Davidson. The seizure by tax police officers followed a request by theInternational Criminal Court in The Hague, which is seeking the extradition from Libya of Kadhafi’s son Seif al-Islam on [...]