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At the time I had some discussion with an Algerian friend of mine who said that Zidane should have killed Materazzi for that comment as this is the worst kind of insult you could direct at an Algerian. … So it turns out that Materazzi did not say anything of the sort, instead saying that he preferred Zidane’s sister to the French captain’s offer of his shirt, which Materazzi was pulling at a corner.

I just saw an interview on CNN with Roberto Saviano, author of a book called Gomorrah about the Naples Mafia.
The book has sold over 1 million copies worldwide and has now been made into a film, just shown at Cannes.
Roberto himself is getting a lot of coverage including the Independent and Guardian in the UK [...]

The ghosts of the past will haunt the Italian economy until at least the end of 2009, according to the IMF.
Italy’s lack of structural reform and powerful union movement will result in Italy’s economy being the second-weakest in the Euro zone after Ireland.
It has long been known that the Italian employment regulations have held it [...]

Have you ever been on a plane making its way to or from the runway at a major airport, trundled past another plane and thought “Christ, I am glad I’m not travelling in that“?
If you have, chances are the plane was one of the dirty, ageing Alitalia fleet.
There was a time when it was an [...]

Nice to know that one of your biggest allies is glad to see you. In a briefing issued to reporters before the meeting of Silvio Berlusconi and George Bush at the G8 summit, the White House described Italy as a nation “known for governmental corruption and vice” and Berlusconi himself as “regarded by many as [...]