Roman judges became suspicious after realizing over half the 650 driving licenses suspended for excessive speeding last year belonged to folks over 60 years old. Jaded traffic cops soon cleared up the mystery: these “silver streakers” are, in reality,taking the heat for young relatives.Italy’s strict privacy law permits electronic cameras to snag speeders from the [...]
31 years taken to modify Italy’s law against women boxers 1,000 professional female boxers, Finland 400 professional female boxers, France 10 number of rounds in women’s matches 1 superstar Italian female boxer Katia Bellillo, former minister for equal opportunity noted for having uppercut Alessandra Mussolini on TV, considers her battle won. Starting this week, Italian [...]
514 million English speakers 62 million Italian speakers 50,000 (circa) students of Italian worldwide 93 Italian cultural institutes, worldwide “English, one of the most widely-spoken languages, will form the building blocks for a universal idiom,” was the hypothesis made recently by Peter Schneider in daily Corriere della Sera commenting on “European Year of Languages” conferences [...]
Entrepreneur Enrico Forti says he owes a life sentence in a Florida jail to being Italian. “If I were Anglo-Saxon I would’ve never seen the inside of a courtroom,” he told Italian daily La Repubblica. “Here they seem to think a successful Italian is necessarily a member of the Mafia.” Forti, whose friends call him [...]
