A ’supertomato’ created by Italian scientists is the perfect food for helping keep cancer at bay, the head of the World Foundation of Urology said on Tuesday. Launching Prostate Cancer Week in Italy, Mauro Dimitri said the ’supertomato’ created by the Biomolecular Institute at the Naples National Research Centre offered a unique blend of nutritional qualities – reported Ansa.
Troubles cause other troubles. A controversial decree – reported the Ansa agency – reinstating government candidates for the coming regional elections later this month will have no bearing on the exclusion of government candidates in the Lazio region, Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said yesterday.
“First of all I wanna thank the Academy for this unbeliavable honour”. This is the very first phrase expressed by a very touched Mauro Fiore, the Italian who won the Oscar of Cinematography for the movie Avatar. Originally from a small village in Calabria, Fiore moved to Chicago with his parents, and after they returned to Italy he decided to stay in the States to pursue his career in the cinema business.
“I want to live in peace now, have a normal life, have a job and some friends just like everybody else”. These are the first thoughts and words of Omar Favaro, released on parole yesterday from the prison of Asti. The 26 year old boy that has just served his time in jail (9 years out of 12) was convicted in 2001 for helping his girlfriend Erika, who was at that time 16 and Omar 14, in killing her mother and her little brother with 97 stabs.
“The public service has been humiliated and violated” said journalist Michele Santoro, after the Italian public television (RAI) decided to interrupt the weekly political talk shows on tv: Ballarò (tuesday), Annozero (thursday) and Porta a porta (monday) to preserve a climate of par condicio in relation to the coming Regional elections, scheduled for the end of March.
Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s People of Freedom (PdL) party, has been excluded from the ballot in Rome province for the March 28-29 elections, because the electoral office said the centre right party had failed to hand in its list of candidates by the noon cutoff on Saturday.
More than 2000 people attended at the funeral of former MP Enzo Fragalà. The famous criminal lawyer and member of the National Alliance party died last Friday after he was hardly beaten outside his office on Tuesday night in Palermo, Sicily. He had remained 3 days in hospital fighting to survive at the attack.
An Italian citizen was killed among at least 17 people in a Taliban suicide attack in Kabul this morning, as reported by Afghan sources. The blasts happened in a shopping centre and very close to a hotel used by foreigners. The unidentified Italian apparently was a member of the AISE external secret service, formerly known as Sismi.
As Ansa reported yesterday, telecommunications companies Telecom Italia (TI) and Fastweb denied any part in a giant money laundering scheme exposed by Italian police last Tuesday that led to the arrest of 56 people in Italy, Switzerland, the UK and the US.
BlogSicilia yesterday wrote a letter to the President of Palermo football club, Maurizio Zamparini, to explicitly ask him a sign of solidarity for the Fiat’s workers of Termini Imerese who lost their jobs. Next Sunday infact there will be an important football match: Juventus – Palermo, that in those difficult days it is not only a sport meeting, but obviously implies the fact that there will be the city of Turin versus Palermo, and above all Fiat versus Termini Imerese.
The Sanremo Music Festival is a very famous Italian song contest running since 1951 and held every year in the famous town of Sanremo (Liguria). Also known as the “Italian song festival” (ital. Festival della canzone italiana), in all these years it has always been a launch pad for many important artists of the music world (like Eros Ramazzotti and Laura Pausini) and singing there in the Teatro Ariston is definitely considered an important step in every Italian singer’s career.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi as reported by the Ansa said very tough words about kicking out of his People of Freedom (Pdl) party anyone guilty of corruption. He said that the tougher messages may even be discussed at the next cabinet meeting, on Friday.
Former Formula 1 pilot, Alex Zanardi, who lost both legs in a terrible car-crash, will take part in this year’s Rome Marathon next March 21st. Zanardi, who last year Zanardi won the Venice Marathon for disabled in a wheelchair, is 43 years old and will compete in a handcycle, sponsored by the Barilla foods group, similar to the one he used in the 2007 New York Marathon, where he came in fourth for his division after just four weeks of training.
Here it comes… the very first episode of the Sicilian sitcom “PC – Panelle & Crocchè”. Sketches and jokes take place in the most famous “Focacceria” in Palermo, where the local and traditional food is not the only protagonist of the fiction. You will start getting to know Carmelo and his family that runs the place, as well as the Baron and his wife, Don Mario, ecc…
I read this article on the Ansa website and I find it very interesting. In these days thousands of pilgrims are gathering in Padua, hoping for a rare glimpse of the bones of the city’s hugely popular patron, Saint Anthony. The remains of Anthony, the unofficial saint of lost causes, have gone on show for the first time in 29 years, generating a frenzy of excitement among the Catholic faithful.
Yesterday I went to see the movie of the moment, it has already received 9 nominations for the Academy Awards and is on everyone’s mouth. I am obviously talking about “Avatar”. Here it comes my personal opinion: I didn’t like it. The story seems to be a bad copy of the plot of “Dances with wolves” by Kevin Costner, …
Yesterday BlogSicilia was quoted by one of the most important and preeminent Italian newspapers, the Corriere, with regard to what Massimo Ciancimino, the son of the mafioso and former mayor of Palermo Vito Ciancimino has recently said.
Today is the Memorial Day of some atrocious facts happened in Italy during the Second World War and kept silent for too long: “the massacres of the foibe” in the regions of Dalmatia and Venezia Giulia to the detriment of Italian citizens.
Yesterday, at Palazzo d’Orleans in Palermo, took place the presentation of the new electric car, made in Sicily, at the presence of Governor Raffaele Lombardo. It was the result of the collaboration between SicilianaEnergia and Effedì automotive, the automobile represents a part of that important work done on the sustainable transports and use of energies, called “I zero: emission, consume, noise”.
Massimo Ciancimino has written again for BlogSicilia today. The son of Vito Ciancimino, the mafioso ex-Mayor of Palermo (Sicily), is testifying about the connections between the Mob and the Government, especially during the slaughters of the magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in Palermo in 1992.
“I don’t use cocaine to go crazy, I am not interested in that. I smoke it only as an anti-depressive. Psychiatrists have always given me very strong medicines that made me sick. But cocaine is much better. Even Freud used to prescribe it.” These words caused the exclusion of Morgan (real name Marco Castoldi) from the Sanremo Music Festival.
Unemployment rate in Italy rose to 8.5% last December. So again, after Termini Imerese, we keep on talking of the fundamental “job issue”. Yesterday afternoon about 400 Alcoa workers staged a sit-in in Rome, in front of Berlusconi’s office in Montecitorio, during a meeting between the American multinational of aluminium, trade unions and the Italian government.
Traditional Sicilian food, sense of humour, sketches and a smell like home are the main ingredients of a brand new Sicilian sitcom thought and created for the Web. The renowned “panelle”, which are famous local chickpea fritters and the potato croquettes give the title to this comic fiction, playing also with their initials PC that have a second meaning, referred to the personal computer, which is the only “place” where the sitcom can be seen.
Just like the 1998 American movie “Patch Adams”, starring Robin Williams, who was interpreting a clown doctor, Italy takes a step forward hospitalized children.
”We think a little laughter is important to the healing process, especially for kids, and we’re happy to support any effort to do that,” said Equal Opportunity Minister Mara Carfagna, who recently unveiled fresh funding…
After Fiat announced that it intended to stop production at Termini Imerese, so workers and unions have been protesting against the decision climbing on the roof and camping there until the situation will be solved. So now the factory is currently at a standstill because employees will not allow supply trucks to enter the facility.
Yesterday Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said that Italian parliament is considering a ban on veils that hide Muslim women’s faces, just like France proposed last week. Wearing face-masking veils should be illegal in public buildings like hospital and schools, as well as public transports.
Today is the Holocaust Memorial Day. In Italy schools organize particular events or in-depth studies to remember what happened in the Nazi’s concentration camps during the Second World war and why.
There have been thousands of witnesses and testimonies about the slavery and the tortures perpetrated by the Nazis towards Jewish people, especially books and movies.
Tomorrow a new museum is opening in the evocative town of Siena, the heart of Tuscany. The name, Museum of Water (Museo dell’Acqua) referred to the ancient and hidden 25-kilometre water network of the area, developed over the past centuries and dated back to the 11th century, when the city lacked a ready water supply.
Rich or poor, employee or unemployed, beautiful or ugly, everyone in Italy dreams of winning the National Lottery, known with the name of Superenalotto. There are people who play regularly three times a week, and there are the ones who just try from time to time, especially when the jackpot goes up.
I’ve come across a very unusual story today, browsing some online newspapers. Some days ago in a junior high school of Treviso, a Veneto city, started a specific course with the aim of giving adolescents a better approach to emotions and sexuality.
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