
A female vituline seal [harbour seal] pup weighing 11,6 kilos was born at the Genoa Aquarium in the early hours of Sunday 11th July. The birth was natural and took place on land. Mother and pup are said to be doing well...
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Saadi Gaddafi, the third son of the Libyan leader, has been ordered by an Italian court to pay a €392,000 hotel bill from 2008.
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Minister of Culture Sandro Bondi announced that March 17th 2011 will be a national holiday. The celebrations are controversial because Northern League leader Umberto Bossi has called them “rhetorical and useless”...
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Quick, which is the cutest Italian car ever made? The FIAT 500, of course! Even though it is more than fifty years old, the tiny city car remains the prettiest economy vehicle ever designed and continues to thrill aficionados from around the world...
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An Italian girl who died in 1989 at the age of eighteen is to be beatified on the 25th September this year.
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Italy’s newest aircraft carrier the Cavour, launched in 2004 but not fully operational until last year, arrived in Haitian waters on 1st February. It forms part of “Operation White Crane”, Italy’s relief effort in Haiti.
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There has never been a Sanremo last night like it: a Prince was openly booed, the orchestra threw their music on the floor, the entire audience stood up at one point to protest and now the police may be involved in investigating the vote..
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We explore the faded glories of San Remo, the ‘pearl of the Italian Riviera’
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River Cafe’s Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray share some favourite recipes from a memorable February trip to Italy’s Riviera...
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In the early 1960s Barone, head of the local flower-growing co-operative, began to claim that Seborga [Liguria ] had never been listed as part of Italy under the 1861 Unification of the country and was therefore an independent state. Subsequently, in 1963, he got himself elected “prince” of the 14-square –kilometer “country”.
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