Italy police foil plot to counterfeit top Tuscan wine
Rome (AFP) - Producers of Tuscany's Brunello di Montalcino were celebrating Thursday after Italian police foiled a plot to flood the market with over 220,000 counterfeit bottles of the prized red wine. A noted wine expert who had obtained fake Brunello and ...
Italy probes Eni chief over Nigerian deal
Italian prosecutors have placed the chief executive officer of Italian oil and gas company, Eni, under investigation over alleged bribes paid for a lucrative Nigerian oil concession. Eni confirmed Thursday that Claudio Descalzi and another official were ...
Italy offers refueling planes for increased US airstrikes on Islamic State group militants
ROME – Italy is offering refueling planes to support increased U.S. airstrikes against Islamic militants who have captured large swaths of Syria and Iraq. Defense Minister Roberta Pinotti told The Associated Press on Thursday that Italy is one of the few ...
Italy activists denounce death of mother bear
ROME (AP) — Animal rights groups called Thursday for the resignation of Italy's environment minister and the forestry police opened an investigation after a mother bear died during a capture operation ordered after she scuffled with a forager as her cubs ...
Italy's Wind sets end-Oct deadline to get offers for towers
MILAN (Reuters) - Italian mobile phone operator Wind, a unit of Russian telecoms group Vimpelcom (VIP.O), has set an end-October deadline to receive non-binding offers for its phone masts, two sources close to the matter said on Thursday. "The plan is to ...
Stranger in a strange land.
What I love about visiting other countries is quite a number of things. Experiencing the difference in culture compared to the one I have grown up is one of them, looking at historical sites with meaning and looking at beautiful architecture another thing. Meeting the people, trying to communicate w ...
Book Review: The First Noble Truth by C Lynn Murphy
The First Noble Truth By C Lynn Murphy Genre: Literary Fiction Available on Amazon! Machiko Yamamoto pulls out her hair, picks at her skin, and triple checks the locks to the house behind the school where she works. When a foreigner moves into a neighboring thatched roof cottage, she quickly falls i ...
Benefit Concert for the Library Music Committee
The Columbia Chamber Players will perform a benefit concert to raise funds for the maintenance of the Library’s donated Mason & Hamlin piano. Karen Bogardus, flute, Ellen Katz Willner, oboe, and Wenhan Anderson, piano, will play trios by Mathias, Dring, and Jacobs, and Gaubert’s Nocturne and Allegro ...
Ferry at Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy
As Lake Como is wide and long, the best way to get somewhere is by ferry. A bridge would spoil it. This picture is of a ferry leaving from the pier at Bellagio. The city (town) sits on the tip of a peninsula that divides Como into east and west. If you look at the photo carefully or enlarge it, you ...
