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Berlusconi For President?

2012-05-25T11:22:18Z

ROME — Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi appears to be angling for the role of Italian president – with enhanced powers.

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Rick Steves: A Catholic Church With A Disney World Line...

2012-05-24T07:00:00Z

The people who run the big sights in Venice have generally welcomed us to film, but only when they're closed to the public.

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Rick Steves: WATCH: Beating The Crowds In Venice

2012-05-23T07:00:00Z

The cafés on St. Mark's Square may be pretty empty in the evenings, even with the allure of their orchestras, but crowds still fill the midday streets.

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Rick Steves: Casinos And Small Changes In Venice

2012-05-22T07:00:00Z

An electric readerboard in a pharmacy window ticks down with each person who moves out or dies. Today's population: 58,756. Yesterday, it was 58,759.

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Jasmina Tesanovic: Earthquakes and Bombs in Italy

2012-05-21T15:21:07Z

It was a weekend of fear and mourning in Italy. Early this Sunday morning, an earthquake struck near Bologna. And on Saturday morning, a bomb exploded in front of a high school, killing a 16-year-old and injuring several other students seriously.

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Dad Throws Children Off Balcony, Jumps To His Death

2012-05-21T08:06:11Z

Associated Press

ROME — Police in northern Italy say a father has thrown his two young children to their deaths from a sixth floor apartment balc...

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Rick Steves: WATCH: Italy's Most Appreciated Breast

2012-05-21T07:00:00Z

All day long, a steady stream of visitors line up to polish Juliet's bronze breast in hopes of good fortune in love.

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Aftershocks Rattle Italy

2012-05-21T04:46:00Z

By Stephen Jewkes FINALE EMILIA, Italy, May 21 (Reuters) - Thousands of people in northern Italy slept in tents and cars overnight as ...

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Bomb Revives Dark Era For Italy

2012-05-20T09:55:53Z

ROME -- A bomb blast outside a high school in southern Italy that killed a 16-year-old student has revived dark memories of the 70s and 80s, when terr...

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Jetsetter.com: Where To Go When You've Summered Everywhere

2012-05-20T09:40:00Z

No one loves a classic summer spot more than we do, but it doesn't hurt to mix things up.

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LOOK: Deadly Italian Earthquake

2012-05-20T09:22:36Z

SANT'AGOSTINO DI FERRARA, Italy — A magnitude-6.0 earthquake shook several small towns in northeast Italy, killing four people, knocking down a ...

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Cathy Alter: What Losing My Luggage In Italy Taught Me About My Husband

2012-05-20T18:36:40Z

All this overzealous preparedness was probably a way of managing my anxiety, a belief that as long as I packed those fourteen tubes of lipstick, I'd avoid another kind of travel emergency.

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Bomb Blast At Italian School

2012-05-19T03:46:00Z

ROME, May 19 (Reuters) - One person was killed and six people were injured when a bomb exploded near a school in Brindisi in southern Italy on Satur...

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John Friedman: A Lesson in Ethics From the Olympic Games

2012-05-18T17:42:00Z

Corporate leaders are realizing that in going the extra step, and engaging in transparency, openness and disclosure, they reveal the true character of their organization.

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Benjamin Taylor: WATCH: A Miracle In Naples

2012-05-18T13:42:52Z

This takes place years ago: Heeding warnings I've heard about gifted pickpockets, I put my passport in my sock and wade into the teeming streets.

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LOOK: Europe's Far-Right Surge

2012-05-17T16:52:21Z

-- Twenty-one members of Golden Dawn were sworn into Greece's Parliament on Thursday, making it arguably the most far-right party to enter a European...

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Simona Lodi: What Is The Meaning Of Art? A Master Of Arte Povera Gives The Answer

2012-05-15T13:02:45Z

Piero Gilardi anticipated later movements, in seeing the aesthetic value of shared space and collaboration -- a value underpinning the open-source, Internet-based nature of tech-art today.

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Juliet Linley: Extreme Parenting Made Simple

2012-05-13T13:35:18Z

What most people seem to ignore is that creating an attachment bond with your baby is about putting your child's needs ahead of yours. It's as simple as that. Seriously.

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Gemma Godfrey: How Will the French and Greek Elections Change the Direction of Europe?

2012-05-14T12:38:42Z

As French and Greek voters make their feeling about spending cuts loud and clear, we ask ourselves: why has there been such a strong swing to anti-austerity/pro-growth, how does this threaten the survival of the euro and is a Greek default still possible?

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Exhumation In Bizarre Old Vatican Kidnap Case

2012-05-14T07:24:47Z

ROME -- Coroners and medical technicians swarmed the crypt of a Roman basilica on Monday to exhume the body of a reputed mobster as part of an investi...

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Protesters Decry Italian Abortion Law

2012-05-13T11:32:35Z

ROME -- A few thousand people opposed to Italy's 1978 law allowing abortion have marched through the Italian capital in a protest drawing people from ...

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Panagiotis Roilos: Economic Crisis, the "PIGS" and the European "Animal Farm"

2012-05-12T11:56:47Z

According to René Girard, in periods of collective crisis the phenomenon of scapegoating flourishes. Today, the notorious "PIGS" (Portugal, Ireland or Italy, Greece, Spain), have become those animalized, "criminal" scapegoats.

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Erica Firpo: A Segway Happened On The Way To The Forum

2012-05-11T07:00:00Z

Segways have been slowly infiltrating Rome and a bi-wheel tour seemed lazy, cumbersome and slightly ridiculous.

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Rachel Dickinson: PHOTOS: The Wonders Of The Lamborghini Factory

2012-05-10T07:00:00Z

The minute I start hearing noises, even if they come from a purring engine, I start to dwell on the fact that I'm hurtling down a highway while trapped in a hunk of metal that can fail at any minute.

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Rick Steves: WATCH: Hit The Ground Running In Verona

2012-05-10T07:00:00Z

A fundamental skill travelers have to develop is the ability to get around efficiently and economically using public transit.

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