Italy To Experience Severe Heat Wave: Alerts In Place

Italian officials have issued a series of heat alerts on Wednesday ahead of a heat wave expected to hit Italy this week. The cities on the highest level 3 alert -- Rome, Perugia, Latina, Milan, Bologna and Brescia. The cities of Bolzano, Venice, Florence, Civitavecchia and...

Giampaolo Pazzini’s Road to Success at Sampdoria

Giampaolo Pazzini Success " Only three months into Giampaolo Pazzini’s winter switch from Fiorentina to Sampdoria, most Calciofans can claim that the move has proven to be quite the success story. The 24-year old has settled well into his new surroundings and blossomed...

Florence S. Wald, Who Eased the Pain of the Dying, Is Dead at 91

Up until 1969, doctors rarely talked to their patients about dying. When Dr Kubler-Ross first started interviewing dying patients, "none were to be found". Doctors rarely told their patients that they were dying. Doctors were taught to save lives, not to help people with...

Portraits and Writings Reveal Michelangelo as Ugly and Unclean

"The series of extremely rare modern portraits and writings, presented on the show in Florence, showed that one of the greatest artists of western civilization, Michelangelo Buonarroti, was an ugly and unclean man."

New writing success for Salman Rushdie

"The bookshop trestle table clearly ain't big enough for the both of them. Novelist Salman Rushdie yesterday claimed to have broken wine writer Malcolm Gluck's record for book signings after adding his full name to 1,000 books on a tour to promote his latest novel. "His...

Redefining the Clovis People: Texas Dig Offers Clues

In Texas, they're digging up some interesting stuff that may re-define the Clovis people. Now if the experts could only figure out that the Siberian land bridge went both ways."Since the 1930s textbooks have taught that the New World's first inhabitants, known for the town in...