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Stradivarius Market Hits High Note
Stradivarius Market Hits
High Note
Jan 6, 2008 2:10 PM CST

Stradivarius Market Hits High Note

Rush for 300-year-old violins sparks intrigue, drives price to millions

(Newser) - The price of violins by 18th century Italian master Antonio Stradivari has shot through the roof in recent decades, with the instruments now worth 500 times their weight in gold, reports Der Spiegel. Three powerful dealers control a shadowy worldwide market rife with intrigue where frenzied collectors seek out the...

Italian Syndicate Quietly Rules Europe's Cocaine Trade

US market tumbles as mobsters flourish

(Newser) - Europe is gaining a foothold in the world’s cocaine trade, elbowing out the US as the largest market thanks to the bravado of one Italian crime syndicate. The ‘Ndrangheta mafia, based in the hills of southern Italy, has won prominence by dealing directly with Colombian kingpins and shunning...

Italians Fuss Over Airline Takeover
Italians Fuss Over Airline Takeover
Dec 23, 2007 2:20 PM CST

Italians Fuss Over Airline Takeover

Lobbyists take nationalist stance against deal with Air France-KLM

(Newser) - News that Italy's national airline, Alitalia, is in danger of being taken over by Air France-KLM, the world's biggest airline by revenue, has sparked outrage among Italian interests who fear their local carrier will be stripped of major routes. The government promises to decide Alitalia's fate by mid-January, as politicians...

Italy Depressed by News Story Calling Italy Depressed

Portrait of Italian malaise hits a nerve

(Newser) - In a self-referential moment, the New York Times interviews its own reporter, Ian Fisher, about the nationwide soul-searching set off in Italy by Fisher's Dec. 13 article that depicts Italians as wallowing in a collective funk. Fisher's description of a dispirited national mood has prompted an impassioned response from all...

Mold Ravages Da Vinci Codex
Mold Ravages Da Vinci Codex
Dec 22, 2007 8:04 AM CST

Mold Ravages Da Vinci Codex

Damage wrought for lack of restoration funding

(Newser) - An onslaught of red, black, and purple mold has turned the Codex Atlanticus, the largest collection of writings and drawings by Leonardo Da Vinci, into a "precious sick patient," the Times of London reports. The mold, discovered by an American scholar, is attacking 12,000 codex sheets at...

'Group Attack' Led to Meredith Slaying: Judge

Italian court refuses to release suspects as discrepancies mount

(Newser) - An Italian judge yesterday upheld a decision to detain the three suspects in the murder of Meredith Kercher, saying that "none of them can be said to have played a passive role." The Times of London reports that the court in Perugia has seen evidence suggesting that Kercher's...

Italian Govt. Renames Baby
Italian Govt. Renames Baby
Dec 18, 2007 1:45 PM CST

Italian Govt. Renames Baby

Under law on 'shameful' names, Italy dubs baby Friday 'Gregory'

(Newser) - He was born, registered, and baptized Friday Germano, but the Italian government is calling him Gregory. The Germanos happen to like the name Friday, but 5 months after they gave it to their baby, a court in Genoa ruled that it had to be changed. In Italy, it seems, the...

Collective Funk Settles on Italy
Collective Funk Settles on Italy
Dec 13, 2007 8:52 PM CST

Collective Funk Settles on Italy

EU's unhappiest people disillusioned with nation's future

(Newser) - Italy is in a bad mood, and people from Venice to Naples are worried the current “malessere”—or “malaise—will never lift. On the heels of a Cambridge poll showing Italians to be the unhappiest folks in Europe, Ian Fisher of the New York Times finds a...

Court Indeed a Mickey Mouse Operation

Cartoon characters summoned in Italy counterfeiting case

(Newser) - A man is on trial in Italy for counterfeiting Disney and Warner Bros. merchandise, and a surprising set of witnesses has been summoned: Tweety, Mickey Mouse, and Donald and Daisy Duck. Prosecutors in Naples blamed a clerical error for the summons, in which the Italian iterations of the cartoon characters—...

Tape Puts Amanda at Murder Scene

Italian police bug her conservation with parents in jail

(Newser) - An American student suggested in a bugged jailhouse meeting with her parents that she was home when her flatmate in Italy was murdered, the Telegraph reports. The disclosure contradicts earlier claims by Amanda Knox. "From the bugged recording it is possible to understand that she was in the house,...

Murder Suspect 'Serene' Behind Bars in Italy

American student Knox expected at closed hearing tomorrow

(Newser) - Amanda Knox, the American student suspected in a murder in Italy, told an Italian legislator she has adjusted to life in prison, a day before her lawyers will argue she should be placed instead under house arrest. The Times of London reports that Knox said the first few days were...

Ex-Getty Curator Ducks Relic Charge
Ex-Getty Curator Ducks Relic Charge
Nov 27, 2007 6:38 PM CST

Ex-Getty Curator Ducks Relic Charge

Greek court clears her of buying looted golden wreath

(Newser) - Greek judges cleared a former Getty Museum curator today of buying a looted golden wreath, the Los Angeles Times reports. They said the statute of limitations had ended on the charge that Marion True okayed purchasing the illegally dug up Greek artifact. But "at no stage of these proceedings...

Amanda: 'I Didn't Kill Meredith'
Amanda: 'I Didn't Kill Meredith'
Nov 23, 2007 10:11 AM CST

Amanda: 'I Didn't Kill Meredith'

US student held in murder of British roommate claims her memory of bloody night is blurred by drugs

(Newser) - A US student under suspicion in the murder of her British roommate  in Italy is claiming drugs have blurred her memory of the night Meredith Kercher was killed. In a statement obtained by CNN, Amanda Knox of Seattle insists she does know one thing: "I didn't kill Meredith."...

Europeans Go for Coke
Europeans Go for Coke
Nov 22, 2007 4:46 PM CST

Europeans Go for Coke

2007 EU report says coke use up by one million

(Newser) - Cocaine is "Europe's stimulant of choice," according to a new study that says nearly five million Europeans used coke this year—a million more than last. The Spanish and British used it most, BBC reports, but Danes and Italians increased their usage most in 2007. Two million Europeans...

Berlusconi Makes One Last Push for Power

Ex-PM forms new party to prepare for electoral showdown

(Newser) - Silvio Berlusconi, the richest man in Italy and the longest-serving postwar PM, is pushing for one more shot at the top by founding a new political party, reports the Independent. In a surprise move, Berlusconi is dissolving Forza Italia, the party he built from scratch, and trying to unite the...

Noah's Flood Transformed Agriculture
Noah's Flood Transformed Agriculture
Nov 19, 2007 10:33 AM CST

Noah's Flood Transformed Agriculture

Melting glaciers inundated Black Sea, scattered farmers

(Newser) - The real-life inspiration for the biblical flood may have been responsible for the widespread adoption of agriculture in Europe, according to a new study. About 8,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age, ice sheets melted, causing massive flooding in the Black Sea basin. That forced...

Italian Soccer Fans Riot After Shooting

Cops call shooting "tragic error" after mob attacks police barracks

(Newser) - The police shooting of an Italian soccer fan sparked riots and police clashes across the country today, the BBC reports. Hundreds in Rome torched a bus, smashed cop cars, and attacked a police barracks. In Milan, one game was stopped when angry fans tried to storm the field; more violence...

Yank Roomie & Lover Held in Murder of British Student

3rd pal also detained in suspected sex assault killing in Italy

(Newser) - The American roommate of a murdered British student, the flatmate's boyfriend and a bar manager have been detained by Italian police after their alibis collapsed, reports the Guardian. The roomie has already confessed to the macabre crime that police believe was committed during a sexual assault, according to the Telegraph....

Top 20 International Travel Hits
Top 20 International Travel Hits
Nov 6, 2007 11:05 AM CST

Top 20 International Travel Hits

The dollar may be down—but that isn't keeping Americans from spending their money abroad

(Newser) - Money may not be flowing the way it once did, but Americans are traveling more than ever. Forbes Traveler lists the top 20 destinations for Yankee jetsetters:
  1. Mexico
  2. Canada
  3. UK

Sicilian Mafia's 'Boss of Bosses' Gets Pinched

On the lam since 1983, 'the Baron' goes quietly during Palermo summit

(Newser) - Italian police today nabbed the alleged head of the Sicilian underworld, his son—who kept repeating "I love you, Dad"—and two other mob bosses, Reuters reports. The arrests, which marked the second time in less than 2 years that the Cosa Nostra's top dog has been busted,...

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