ROME — Dapper as always in their bleached white shirts and matching caps, members of Rome’s municipal police force were out on the Spanish Steps one warm autumn day, trolling for offenders.

 New York is filled with ghosts of anachronistic businesses, left behind by technology or rising rents or apathy; fading away tragically, closing up shop, transforming into something hardly recognizable. D’Aiuto is not one of those businesses.

(ANSA) - Milan, October 22 - Italian Labour Minister Elsa Fornero on Monday told students "not to be overly choosey" when looking for work in the current environment, because "one can not expect to find the ideal position".

Eurochocolate is without doubt the most important event dedicated to chocolate of Umbria, if not of Italy. Takes place every year in October in Perugia. The origins of this International Chocolate Exhibition dates back to 1994 and to the creative architect Eugene Guarducci. Since then it has been a steady growing of public and successful.  

Giuseppe Pilon, who rushed to the Concordia's engine room immediately after the accident, and another engine room officer, Giovanni Iaccarino, spoke publicly about the tragedy for the first time on Sunday night. Mr Pilon said that Captain Schettino did not understand how desperate the situation was despite direct communication from the engine room.

Defying assertions that earthquakes cannot be predicted, an Italian court convicted seven scientists and experts of manslaughter Monday for failing to adequately warn residents before a temblor struck central Italy in 2009 and killed more than 300 people.The court in L'Aquila also sentenced the defendants to six years each in prison. All are members of the national Great Risks Commission, and several are prominent scientists or geological and disaster experts. 

 On that first trip to Italy years ago, I talked to everybody, if only to practice my Italian. Shy in English, I was more gregarious in Italian. I had come with Venetian friends, six of us piled into a tiny Fiat, careening down the autostrada, stopping every half hour for an espresso, six hours to Sorano in southern Tuscany, where my friend Chicco had bought a tiny two-room stone house.

 Two of Hollywood’s hottest stars have said arrivederci to the single life.
After five years together, Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel tied the knot Friday in a top-secret ceremony at a posh seaside resort in the southern Italian city of Fasano.