Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has been paying his first visit to Italy, his country's former colonial ruler and now its biggest trading partner. As the BBC's David Willey reports, the image he leaves behind in Rome may not be quite what he would have wished. Imagine the scene. A thousand Italian women in high heels, wearing their smartest outfits, dressed to kill in expensive pant suits and creations of the crème de la crème of Milan fashion houses, gathered in a state of high excitement at Rome's new concert hall. Col Gaddafi has been telling Italians what to think for three...
Hundreds of ancient artefacts worth £12.7m looted from southern Italy recovered by art police from ...
The Daily Mail
The Daily Mail
Art museum extends hours
Fresno Bee
Fresno Bee
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Italian opens museum of manholes
Mumbai Mirror
Mumbai Mirror
Agencies Posted On Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 07:23:25 AM...
Rome churches, gallery to stay open overnight to mark 400 years since Caravaggio's death
Star Tribune
Star Tribune
Sculptures of two investigators murdered by Mafia vandalised
Irish Times
Irish Times
PADDY AGNEW in Rome EIGHTEEN YEARS after they were both killed by Cosa Nostra, Sicilian anti-Mafia investigators Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino still upset some people in Palermo. Or so it would seem, given that...
Photo Gallery: Italian cooking show at MiaCucina features Tuscany vs. Liguria
The Miami Herald
The Miami Herald
The Italy-America Chamber of Commerce Southeast held its third...
Vandals sacking Rome's art treasures
Tulsa World
Tulsa World
They knock the noses off statues in a park that was a favorite haunt of poet John Keats and throw dye into the Trevi Fountain. Vandals are increasingly on the prowl in the Eternal City — and now Italian...




