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  • Italian watchdog says Vatican Bank has improved Italian watchdog says Vatican Bank has improved

    The Vatican Bank has been the subject of a 10 page report from its newly formed financial watchdog agency. The report has revealed that there were some attempts last year to use the bank to launder money. In 2012 there were six suspicious transaction reports, two of which were passed on to Vatican prosecutors for investigation. Autorita Informazione Finanziaria, the watchdog, was ...

  • Man held in Italy for abusing wife for 20 years

    A 58-year-old man from Frosinone town near Rome was arrested after his wife reported him to police for more than two decades of domestic violence. Police began an investigation after the woman said she and the couple's daughter had endured physical and psychological violence from her husband for over 20 years. The woman claimed her husband had also pressurised her repeatedly to engage in ...

  • Mazzarri replaces Stramaccioni at Inter Milan

    Italian club Inter Milan announced that Walter Mazzarri has been appointed to replace Andrea Stramaccioni as head coach of the football team. The official website of Inter announced the decision Friday and confirmed that a two-year contract has been signed with Mazzarri, reports Xinhua. Inter president Massimo Moratti said he counts on Mazzarri's experience to make the 'Nerazzurri' a better ...

  • Berlusconis underage call girl says she lied to investigators

    Moroccan-born exotic dancer Karima El-Mahroug has told a court that she lied to investigators about erotic parties being held at Silvio Berlusconi's villa while he was still in the PM office in 2010. On Friday, she testified as a witness at the trial of three former Berlusconi aides, TV presenter Emilio Fede, celebrity agent Lele Mora and Nicole Minetti, a local councillor and former showgirl, ...

  • Comic shakes up Italy politics

    By Claudio Lavanga, Correspondent, NBC News ANCONA, Italy – Beppe Grillo, one of Italy’s most famous comedians, once said: "One Italian is a Latin lover, two are a mess, three make up four political parties."He should know since four years ago he founded an anti-establishment political movement that emerged as the surprise winner in Italy’s February national ...

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Beautiful Boy [Blu-Ray]

Beautiful Boy [Blu-Ray]

There is a scene, repeated several times throughout Francis Ford Coppolas paranoid thriller The Conversation (1974), in which a man and a woman walk past an old homeless man sleeping on a park bench and the woman murmurs, Every time I see one of those old guys, I always think t ... ...

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  • MLS Montreal 5 Philadelphia 3

    Marco Di Vaio scored three times in the first half Saturday and the Montreal Impact outlasted Philadelphia for a 5-3 victory. The Italian forward scored scored his second goal in the 28th minute, breaking a 1-1 tie, and he doubled the advantage 4 minutes later off an assist ...

  • No laughing matter Italian comic seriously shakes up politics

    By Claudio Lavanga, Correspondent, NBC News ANCONA, Italy – Beppe Grillo, one of Italy’s most famous comedians, once said: "One Italian is a Latin lover, two are a mess, three make up four political parties."He should know since four years ago he founded an anti-establishment political movement that emerged as the surprise winner in Italy’s February national ...

  • Italy’s first black minister defies death threats

    Ccile Kyenge needs a bodyguard (Nick Cornish) THE first black government minister in Italy has vowed to forge ahead with plans to grant citizenship to children born in the country to immigrant parents and to abolish the crime of illegal immigration, despite a barrage of racial abuse. Born in the Democratic Republic of Congo to a father who had four wives and 38 children, Ccile ...

  • Italy Confers High Distinction to a Cuban Specialist Opera

    Havana, May 25 (Prensa Latina) Cuban professor Angel Vazquez, one of the biggest promoters of the opera in the island, was honored here as "Knight of the Order of the Italian Star", award given by European country. During the opening of the XV Workshop on Language, Literature and Italian Culture in Cuba, that country's ambassador in Havana, Carmine Robustelli, noted the ...

  • Lazio players threatened before Italian Cup final

    Arjen Robben scored in the 89th minute to give Bayern Munich a 2-1 win over German rival Borussia Dortmund on Saturday in the Champions League final, ending four years of frustration for his team in Europe's biggest ...

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