Mama Mia! Italian Language Purists Call for a Ban on English or "Anglitaliano"

An Italian cultural institution Dante Alighieri Society with enormous clout in Italy has called for a ban on such Anglitaliano phrases that have crept into the language such as "il weekend" or "lo...

Ex-FBI agent faces trial for 1982 slaying

"MIAMI, Florida (AP) -- John J. Connolly was hundreds of miles away in 1982 when gambling executive John Callahan's bullet-riddled body was discovered in the trunk of his Cadillac at Miami's airport. ...

Fisichella 3rd fastest in Monza testing

"Giancarlo Fisichella ran a faultless 114 laps in his Force India car and posted the third fastest time of the day to cap the outfit’s three-day Monza testing for the Italian Grand Prix. Fisichella continued the evaluation of set-ups and wing levels specifically for his...

Holy Ribbiting Art!

"ROME - An Italian museum on Thursday defied Pope Benedict and refused to remove a modern art sculpture portraying a crucified green frog holding a beer mug and an egg that the Vatican had condemned as...

Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder

"A more discreet charmNational Post  Published: Tuesday, August 26, 2008A certain Father Antonio Rungi of the southern Italian diocese of Modragone has come up with what is quite...

Priest to hold nun beauty pageant

"An Italian priest says he is organising the world's first beauty pageant for nuns to erase a stereotype of them as being old and dour. Antonio Rungi says The Miss Sister Italy online contest will start on his blog in September. "Nuns are above all women and beauty is a gift...

Indian woman, 55, has quadruplets in Italy

Italy is massively suffering from declining population and getting some help form migrant population. An Indian Lady living in Italy has delivered a quadruplets to help its sagging population.   " A 55-year-old Indian woman has given birth to quadruplets in the...

Cat-loving Pope urged to stop wearing fur

The Italian animal rights campaigners are unhappy with Pope Benedict.Campaigners are trying to appeal to the Pope's cat-loving reputation, urging him to stop wearing ermine on his hats and robes. An online...

Holy Postage ~ Share your faith

An introduction to a new way to send a letter.

Berlusconi: Italy in talks with foreign company to save Alitalia (updated)

In yet another attempt to save Alitalia from bankruptancy, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi talks with other large foreign companies. Even though Italy is not officially in recession, figures from the second...

Priests erects inflatable church to attract Italian beachgoers

The Catholic Church has followed the beach goers in hopes of generating attendance by establishing an inflatable church complete with a beach convent."The 30-metre (98 ft) long blow-up church -- staffed by priests...

K2 disaster evacuation hindered by bad weather

Poor weather hampered the efforts of the evacuation on the world's second highest mountain today. Clouds were built up near K2's advance base camp, so helicopter crews were waiting for them to clear before they...

Wife Swapping Italians Make Lunch A Swinging Affair

The Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi recently jokingly offered his wife to the Danish prime minister but maybe it wasn't so far from the truth of Italian sexual culture as we find that wife swapping and swinging...

Rescuers reach Italian after 11 die on K2

An Italian mountaineer, Marco Confortola, has been rescued from the K2 mountain located in Pakistan. The second highest peak in the world, K2 had earlier swallowed 11 climbers during this recent expedition....

Italian army sent on to the streets

As a way to control street crime and giver citizen a better perception on security, Italian Silvio Berlusconi's conservative government sent the army across the country. The opposition cried it is a militarisation...

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